DJ Spooky

DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (born Paul Miller, 1970), is a Washington DC-born illbient and trip hop musician, turntablist and producer. He borrowed his stage name from a character in a William S. Burroughs novel.

DISCOGRAPHY

DJ SPOOKY ALBUMS

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• Drums of Death Dj Spooky vs. Dave Lombardo (Thirsty Ear)
• Optometry (Thirsty Ear) THI 57121.2
• Modern Mantra (Shadow/Instinct) (DJ mix record) SDW 135-2
• Under the Influence (Six Degrees) (DJ mix record) PRCD 1056-2
• Riddim Warfare (Outpost-Geffen)
• Haunted Breaks Volumes I and II (Liquid Sky Music)
• Synthetic Fury EP (Asphodel Records 0110)
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer (Asphodel Records 0961)
• Necropolis (Knitting Factory Works KFW 185)

DJ SPOOKY SINGLES/EPs

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• Optometrix 12? (Thirsty Ear) THI 57132.1
• Catechism featuring Killah Priest (Synchronic) SYC 002
• Subliminal Minded EP-Peace in Zaire Remixes (Bar None Records)
• Peace in Zaire (with remixes by Ambassador Jr., and The Dub Pistols) promotional/White Label Only (Outpost/Geffen)
• Object Unknown (with remixes by DJ Spooky and Kut Masta Kurt) (Outpost/Geffen CD; Asphodel vinyl)
• Galactic Funk (Asphodel 101)

Paul D. Miller and miscellaneous albums

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• ftp>snd>untitled> Nest Magazine CD, accompanying November 2001 issue
• Another Forensic Charade, accompanying catalogue to exhibition at Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden, September ? December 2001 (limited edition)
• The Viral Sonata Asphodel Records. Originally accompanied installation for The Whitney Biennial 1997.
• Death in Light of the Phonograph: Excursions into the Pre-linguistic Asphodel Records (limited edition) Originally accompanied installation at Annina Nosei Gallery.

Collaborative Releases and mix records

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• Celestial Mechanix: a label mix for Thirsty Ear Records
• Riddim Clash with Twilight Circus (PLAY Label) April 2004
• Dubtometry fearturing Mad Professor, Lee ?Scratch? Perry, and others - a remix of ?Optometry (Thirsty Ear) THI 57128.2
• Catechism (DJ Spooky w/Killah Priest) (Blue Juice Records/UK) BJ007
• Anodyne (Main, core and Peripheral mixes) Picture disk w/Sound Secretion (BSI Records) Cat. BSI 014-1
• The Quick and the Dead DJ Spooky and Scanner (Sulphur Records) Meld series Cat No. MELCD001 (UK) BBWULCD004 (US)
• DJ Spooky vs. The Freight Elevator Quartet File Under Futurism
• Caipirinha Records
• 10? DJ Spooky and Merzbow (Manifold Records)
• 10? DJ Spooky and Quoit (Manifold Records)
• 10? DJ Spooky and Arto Lindsay (Manifold Records)
• Kaotik : Transgression DJ Spooky and Totemplow (Manifold Records)
• 10? DJ Spooky and Alan Licht (Manifold Records)
• Template 12? DJ Spooky and Totemplow (Manifold Records)

Film scores

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• Quattro Noza (Fountainhead Films) Sundance competition finalist (2003)
• SLAM (Offline/Tri-Mark) Grand Prize winner, Sundance (1998); Cannes, Camera D'Or (1998) October 1998 commercial release.

Multimedia, web and misc. projects

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• Marcel Duchamp remix, LA Museum of Contemp. Art (2002)
• Stuzzicadenti DJ Spooky and Diego Cortez

Remixes

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• Sub Rosa Revisited, a catalog mix. Sub Rosa SR 201
• Meat Beat Manifesto - "Storm The Studio R.M.X.S." Tino Corp.
• Merzbow ? Ikebana Merzbow Important Records
• "Rock the Nation" (Dj Spooky sound Unbound instrumental remix) with Michael Franti and Spearhead (Six Degrees Records)
• Kahimi Karie Tilt Polydor KK Records (Japan)
• Hydroponic Sound System Routine Insanity/Evolution Records
• Show Lee Netsu: Electro: snd>>cd: zero sum mix BMG Funhouse (Japan) BVCR-11015
• Cibo Matto ? "Swords and Paintbrush" Warner Bros.
• Steve Reich ? "City Life" Coalition/None Such Recordings
• Ko?n ? "Got the Life" Immortal/Epic (Limited Edition)
• Skeleton Key ? "Wide Open" (DJ Spooky's Full Spectrum Mix) Capitol Records
• Nick Cave ? "Red Right Hand" for Scream 2 soundtrack Capitol Records 12/97
• Metallica ? For Whom the Bell Tolls "The Irony Of It All" 4:41 for Spawn Soundtrack, Immortal/Epic Records, New Line Cinema; 8/97 EK68494
• Arto Lindsay ? "Mundo Civilizado Inversion Mix" 7:28, Gramavision 6/97 GLP 79519
• Bally Sagoo ? Tum Bin Jiya "Isomorphic Flux Mix" 6:47 Higher Ground/Sony
• The Swirlies ? "In Harmony: DJ Spooky's Retrograde Transposition Mix" (6:15) Taang! Records
• Free Kitten ? Jam #1 "Spatialized Chinatown Express Mix" (6:24), Kill Rock Stars 11/97. KRS 286
• Earth Crooked Axis for String Quartet "Kool Stereo Arc" Dub Mix (8:42)
• Hovercraft Stereo Specific Polymerization "Mad Psychotic Hyper-Accelerated Lower East Side Mix" (5:57)
• Walter Ruttman's Weekend for Engaged Magazine Vol. 6, London, UK
• James Plotkin Sawtooth Swirl "DJ Spooky's Irreducible Gated Momentum Dub Mix" (9:40) (Rawkus ptv 1136-2)
• Ben Neill ? "Sistrum into Grapheme" Astralwerks
• Ben Neill ? "Pentagram: La Mer Mix and Undertow Mix" (Verve Antilles) 1996
• DJ Krush ? "Ryuki" (Lulu's Peace Mix) TVT Records
• Spookey Ruben ? "Incedental Drift Mix" TVT Records
• Hooverphonic ? "2Wicky" Epic
• Sublime (band) ? "Doin' Time" (Life Sentence Remix) 5:43 MCA Records; 9/97

Tracks on Compilations, Soundtracks and Miscellaneous Releases

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• "Strictly Turtableyzed Hmm.." on Hi-Fidelity Dub Sessions (Guidance Recordings)
• "That Subliminal Kid vs. The Last Mohican" on Thirsty Ear Presents The Blue Series Sampler (The Shape of Jazz to Come) (Thirsty Ear)
• "Catechism" (instrumental) (Blue Juice Records/UK) BJCD013
• "FTP>Bundle / Conduit 23" on VA: An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music (Sub Rosa/SR 190) April 2002 8:07
• "If/When" on Scissors (Play label/Japan; Play 002) 6/01
• "Another Forensic Charade" on Electric Ladyland - Clickhop Version 1.0 Mille Plateaux Records 2001
• "Rapper?s Relight" on one:it?s all good, man Saul Goodman records 2/01
• "Reciprocal Presupposition and Dance of the Morlocks" on '"Condo Painting'" soundtrack Gallery Six Records, 4/00
• "Conduit 23" for ?Wreck This Mess Remission 2? Noise Museum
• "Turn Table Eyzd, UMM" for Hi-Fidelity Dub Chapter II Guidance Recordings GDRC-575) 1/00
• "Interlude" DJ Spooky and Vinicius Cantuaria for Onda Sonora (Red Hot and Lisbon)
• "Stereo Specific Polymerization" (Beneath the Underdog Mix) (Word Sound Records) 10"
• "Reciprocal Presupposition; Seuqigolana" (Suntropic Inversion Mix) for The End of Utopia (Sub Rosa/SR132)
• "Haunted: Ill Konceptual Mix" for Kunsthaus, Zurich
• "Soon Forward, Synaptic Dissonance" for Asphodelic (Asphodel)
• "Polymorphia 2000: Ill Konceptual Mix" for Kunsthalle, Vienna
• "Solar Physics" DJ Spooky and Sir Menelik for Rawkus Records
• "He Who Leaves No Trace" for Invisible Soundtracks (Leaf Records)
• "Reconstruction and The 6th Degree" on Electric Ladyland 5 (Mille Plateau 48)
• Discord w/ Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Torn and orchestra. Live in Japan. (Güt/For Life FLCG 3028)
• Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg (w STX Ensemble) (Asphodel 0975)
• Iannis Xenakis: Analogiques A + B on Ianissimo! (w/STX Ensemble) (Vandenburg Wave VAN 0003)
• The Western Lands (A Dangerous Road Mix) w/ William Burroughs, Bill Laswell, etc. on Material; Seven Souls (Triloka/Mercury 314 534 905)
• "Island Of Lost Souls" on The Freestyle Files Studio K7 (Germany)
• "Soon Forward, Anansi's Gambit" (DJ Spooky's On the Island of the Lost Souls Mix), and "Why Patterns" on Incursions in Illbient (Asphodel 0968)
• "Zero Gravity Dub" on Synthetic Pleasures Vol. 2 Caipirinha Productions
• "Black Djinn Trance" (w/Bill Laswell, Jah Wobble) on War Smash Hits (Sub Rosa Records SR 105)
• "Primary Inversion" on This is Home Entertainment 2 (Liquid Sky Music/Jungle Sky Records HE 008)
• "The Terran Invasion of Alpha Centauri Year 2794" on Dub Terror Exhaust with Bill Laswell (Subharmonic Records)
• "Machinic Phylum" (Crippled Symmetries Mix) on Future Audio (Freeze Records)
• "The Nasty Data Burst" & "Journey" (Paraspace Mix) on Valis: The Destruction of Syntax (Subharmonic Records)
• In Visual Ocean on Gilles Deleuze: In Memoriam (Mille Plateaux Records)
• Collaboration with Amiri Baraka on Black Dada Nihilismus on Offbeat: A Red Hot Sound Trip Red Hot/Whitney Museum/Wax Trax-TVT compilation released in conjunction with The Whitney Museum's "The Beats: A Retrospective" installation.
• "Temporally Displaced" , also on Offbeat
• "Step In Stand Clear" on Storm of Drones (Sombient)
• "Vorticities" on State Of the Union (Atatvistic Records)
• "Muzique Mecanique Dub" and "Muzique Psychotique" on Electric Ladyland Vol. 3 (Force X Records).
• "Fourth Inversion" on The Resonance Found at the Core of the Bubble (Bubble Core Records)
• "Surface Noise" (Theme of the Hungry Ghost), Sonic Soul Records 001
• "Prologue (The Duchamp Effect)" on Mind The Gap 15 Gozno Circus GC021
• "Object Unknown", "Pandemonium", and "Degree Zero Launch" CD-ROM (The Product)
• "Hologrammic Dub" on The Night Shift (C&S Records)
• "Galactic Funk" on This is Home Entertainment (Home Entertainment Records/Liquid Sky Music)

Sideman Appearances

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• Lost Objects w/Bang on a Can, Concerto Köln, Rias Kammerchor Teldec Classics, Germany 8573-84107-2
• Gary Lucas Golgothaon ?Improve the Shining Hour? Knitting Factory
• Pilgrimage ? 9 Songs of Ecstasy Point Music 314 536 201-2/4
• Ben Neill ? The Gold Bug Antilles Records
• Arto Lindsay ? Mundo Civilizado For Life/Ryko/Bar None

Similar Artists

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• Saul Williams
• DJ Krush
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