I like Spooky, hopefully I won't forget to look for it.

And 90% of the under-40 Farkers just thought "The Birth of a What Now? Is it about the Octomom or something?"

dahmers love zombie: And 90% of the under-40 Farkers just thought "The Birth of a What Now? Is it about the Octomom or something?"

I'm younger than 40 and I got it straight away... But this DJ Spooky fellow, who might that be?

I saw the original version years ago in school. I'm eager to check out the remix.

Oh my god, that's awesome.

18,btw.

This would be amusing: we've come so far forward in race relations that you can look at it and see how ridiculous it all is.

But don't forget that this movie is up there in terms of pure evil with "Triumph of the Will." This movie pretty much revived the KKK. And before you say "Well, yeah, but we're looking at it with modern sensibilities," it was attacked as racist at the time, and also helped spur the growth of the NAACP as well.

Sapper_Topo: I'm younger than 40 and I got it straight away... But this DJ Spooky fellow, who might that be?

The dude has been around since '96. I remember first hearing him on cd that came with an issue of CMJ. Really cool, if you're into electronic hip-hop.

Interesting idea. Saw the original for a history of silent cinema class. Aside from being obviously racist, it was ahead of its time in terms of editing.

/I remember it being long, but was it really 3 hours?

Sapper_Topo: dahmers love zombie: And 90% of the under-40 Farkers just thought "The Birth of a What Now? Is it about the Octomom or something?"

I'm younger than 40 and I got it straight away... But this DJ Spooky fellow, who might that be?

He's a pretty kick ass dude. He's done pretty much every style of music under the sun. Hip hop, drum n bass, jazz, ambient, etc. He has just as much fun playing Trojan Records as he does with dark, abstract stuff like Nurse With Wound. Personal hero of mine. He's left no stone unturned, but be forewarned if you try to traverse his back catalog...it's truly eclectic.

Just wanted to say I saw DJ Spooky at the New Jazz festival in Winnipeg a few years ago, and he was farkin awesome! He spun sweet records, played stand up bass, and at one point was triggering samples using an NES controller.

Oh yea, and I'm pretty sure he called it Rebirth as a shout out to Propellerhead Software's Rebirth, which is one of the best music programs of all time.

Ah I see, he's putting it out on DVD and that's why they're talking about it now in the Post. I knew Spooky had been doing this show for a good while now and was wondering what suddenly piqued the paper's interest.

Anyway, he's a great DJ and is really interesting to listen to him talk about the history of sound and music. Loves the remix culture and was just giving away a ton of mixes he made of obscure music he found. Great stuff.

El_Swino: I saw the original version years ago in school. I'm eager to check out the remix.

He came to the DIA (detroit institute of art) and played and gave a lecture about this project. As a huge spooky fan I went out all excited to see this and was so overwhelmingly disappointing I'm still in shock a year later. Not only was his "remix" nothing more than a couple of loops and inserted speech cards but the music behind it is subtle and uninspiring. His explanation that he wanted the movie to vilify itself instead of adding in new media or truly remixing it fell flat too.

Oh, and by the way, this:



...is one of the best things he's ever done.

jake_lex: But don't forget that this movie is up there in terms of pure evil with "Triumph of the Will." This movie pretty much revived the KKK. And before you say "Well, yeah, but we're looking at it with modern sensibilities," it was attacked as racist at the time, and also helped spur the growth of the NAACP as well.

This.

The whole film is up on youtube if anyone's curious.

DJ Nubiany would be better.

Wait, is this another thread about Michael Steele wanting to rebrand the G.O.P.?

sonicfluid: Oh yea, and I'm pretty sure he called it Rebirth as a shout out to Propellerhead Software's Rebirth, which is one of the best music programs of all time.

No, he called it rebirth because he's cool like dat (very obscure)

AdolfOliverPanties: DJ Nubiany would be better.

Actually I believe his "DJ name" comes from the fact that a lot of his musical output is a bit on the weird side. Think Lustmord and you'll get the idea.

/title taken

dahmers love zombie
And 90% of the under-40 Farkers just thought "The Birth of a What Now? Is it about the Octomom or something?"

We couldn't all go see it on release day like you. Check your depends grandpa.

jake_lex: This would be amusing: we've come so far forward in race relations that you can look at it and see how ridiculous it all is.

But don't forget that this movie is up there in terms of pure evil with "Triumph of the Will." This movie pretty much revived the KKK. And before you say "Well, yeah, but we're looking at it with modern sensibilities," it was attacked as racist at the time, and also helped spur the growth of the NAACP as well.

I downloaded it a while back and finally got around to watching it a few weeks ago. I think the thing that's most disturbing is that it is extremely well made, even looking back at it now. As I was watching I would start to find myself sympathizing with characters that are morally reprehensible until some of the most blatantly racist stuff would come on screen and remind me what the film is presenting as sympathetic. I can only imagine how audiences back when it was released would have been manipulated by the propaganda.

Incidentally, I wonder whether some of the reactions and fears that cropped up during this last election came from a cultural subconscious rooted in the movie. The real villain in Birth of a Nation is a mixed race community organizer type who's sent south to organize and register black voters, and who instead manages to con his way into getting elected Lt. Governor, where he then unleashes his real agenda of persecuting white people.

dahmers love zombie: And 90% of the under-40 Farkers just thought "The Birth of a What Now? Is it about the Octomom or something?"

Then I must be in the ten percent.


/also, I'm aware of things and not retarded.
//like Sapper, I do not know who DJ Spooky is.

OK, so I'm 43. I've seen the original film, never heard of DJ Spooky, but also thought of Public Enemy as soon as I saw the new film's title, and I got the Digable Planets reference.

So what clique am I in?

Sort of on topic, but folks should check this out as well:

Birth of a Nation (new window)

It's a comic book by Aaron McGruder who draws Boondocks and other stories. Highly recommended (by me).

I'm pretty sure this isn't new; I remember there being a showing of it a couple years ago at Harvard.

Interesting, awesome album

Miles D Davis Jr.: El_Swino: I saw the original version years ago in school. I'm eager to check out the remix.

He came to the DIA (detroit institute of art) and played and gave a lecture about this project. As a huge spooky fan I went out all excited to see this and was so overwhelmingly disappointing I'm still in shock a year later. Not only was his "remix" nothing more than a couple of loops and inserted speech cards but the music behind it is subtle and uninspiring. His explanation that he wanted the movie to vilify itself instead of adding in new media or truly remixing it fell flat too.

Yeah, I saw this in Chapel Hill a couple years back. It was interesting because I'd never seen Birth of a Nation (the scene towards the end where the guy is shut in a shack protecting the white woman from a mob of evil black guys was uncannily like a modern zombie movie), but Spooky's treatment was ridiculously repetitive and unimaginative. The music was mostly so ambient that I wound up forgetting it was playing for long stretches, and the movie was a lot of looped footage and title cards. Glad I went just to see the original footage, but the "Remix" was a big fat meh.

LewDux: sonicfluid: Oh yea, and I'm pretty sure he called it Rebirth as a shout out to Propellerhead Software's Rebirth, which is one of the best music programs of all time.

No, he called it rebirth because he's cool like dat (very obscure)

Is that obscure? Damn, I'm old.

See, Reverend Al? That's how someone takes on racism.

Miles D Davis Jr.:
He came to the DIA (detroit institute of art) and played and gave a lecture about this project. As a huge spooky fan I went out all excited to see this and was so overwhelmingly disappointing I'm still in shock a year later. Not only was his "remix" nothing more than a couple of loops and inserted speech cards but the music behind it is subtle and uninspiring. His explanation that he wanted the movie to vilify itself instead of adding in new media or truly remixing it fell flat too.

That's somewhat disappointing to hear. He does have his moments where he tends to disappear up his own arse with projects that underwhelm. I guess I won't check this out. I've never seen the original and pretty much don't plan on it. I had hoped musically there would be something interesting though.

I watched it in my college film class while listening to Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms.It fit perfectly.

Public Enemy fan that said "wait what?" when i read the article. dj spooky is cool though, so i'll let this slide.