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 | | Having also contributed a few tracks to Incursions in Illbient, they too have ventured out on their own with a debut full-length CD, Gaiatronyk (Asphodel). | | | But the reality doesn't always match up -- illbient performers are sometimes disappointed to find that audiences watch the DJ tables as they might a concert stage. | | | The topsy-turvy approach to "dance" music is just the first brick in a growing sonic warehouse. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/97/09/11/ILLBIENT.html
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| | DJ Spooky |
| | In the live music forum, illbient sounds nothing like the theory - the shifty planes of sounds colliding, which are meant to challenge the listener's ears and mind, to challenge the way we hear music and respond to it. | | | Illbient, so-called because it's a New York City musical child, is the sick form of ambient: it's noisier, more disruptive and more erratic. | | | But the creators of the music should stop writing 30-page theses on how brilliant their music is and start playing the brilliant music of which they speak so loudly. |
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http://archives.thedaily.washington.edu/1997/022797/022797spooky.html
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| | Incursions in Illbient |
| | Whether so-called "illbient" music is just a stop on the road to another genre of music remains to be seen. | | | It is, in fact, a hybrid of musical influences that encapsulates influences from the aforementioned ambient genre along with techno, hip hop and dub styles. | | | This particular introduction to the world of illbient sounds includes four of New York City's major proponents: Sub Dub, DJ Spooky (Paul Miller), Bizarre and We (DJ Olive). |
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http://www.metrotimes.com/music/rr/17/rr02.html
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| | TheAgriculture Reviews |
| | The debut album is an easy-skanking mashup of dub vibrations, found sound, and gritty lo-fi beats. | | | Illbient was the big thing a few years back, its biggest name most likely dj Spooky (although WE deserved success far more). | | | Once11 Versus the Pyramid (!K7/theAgriculture) Once11, dj Olive and Lloop are WE, the band that literally gave us illbient, as one of their tracks was titled such. |
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http://www.theagriculture.com/distribution/once11reviews.html
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| | The Net Net: What You Need to Know About Electronica |
| | In illbient circles, the rule of the day is shifting collaborations and morphing collectives rather than lone artists or stable groups: hence the Brooklyn-based Wordsound is part record label, part DJ posse, and part commune. | | | The postmodern theoretical underpinnings of illbient are summed up nicely on the liner notes to DJ Spooky's Songs of a Dead Dreamer (Asphodel), which cites authorities as diverse as Susan Sontag and Francis Bacon. | | | Good listening for the illbient sound: Incursions in Illbient, a DJ Spooky project also featuring Byzar, We, and Sub Dub; parts of Axiom Dub: Mysteries of Creation (Axiom); Land of Baboon (Silent). |
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http://www.thenetnet.com/reviews/newelec.html
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| | disinformation dj spooky: spatial engineer of the invisible city |
| | But illbient re-creates this shadow world in dreamlike sound collages, which suffuse the listener with the dizzying hyper-culture of the urban milieu. | | | Whereas classical ambient comes across as a tranquil convalescent home, illbient immerses the listener in the density and motion of city life: woven into the tracks are soaring subway trains, radio static, steam. | | | As a DJ, his chaotic and abstract style of spinning has given rise to "illbient", a new musical genre combining hip-hop, ambient, drum 'n bass, musique concrete, and jazz. |
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http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id1260/pg1
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| | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| | Liminal were an improvisational collective comprised of DJ Olive, Loop, and Danny Blume, aligned with the "illbient" hip hop/electronic music scene from New York City in the early- to mid-90s. | | | Three of the album's eight tracks are culled from actual live performances of the accompaniment to the film; the others are expositions of ideas and motifs utilized during the performances. | | | Though similar to the illbient hip hop releases of DJ Spooky, DJ Wally, et al., Liminal's record has much more of a fractured, eerie quality. |
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http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/l/liminal.htm
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| | Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky |
| | The 'Illbient' movement utilizes the core of both Hip-Hop DJ culture, based on using or sampling bits of old LPs to form beats and rhythms, and 'ambient' soundscapes. | | | 'Illbient' music sounds like a collage of background sounds and chopped up beats, making for a complex and enlightening listening experience. | | | As DJ Spooky, Miller first gained notoriety by helping establish a downtown New York City music style 'illbient' (etymologically derived from 'ambient,' a atmospheric genre of electronic music). |
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http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Miller.shtml
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| | raw42 reviews: lichen |
| | acetylene angels is an illbient (not our word choice, we will conform) foray into experimental ambience highlighted by lichen's big talent for combining odd sound choices into original music which generally defies categorization. |
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http://www.raw42.com/reviews/lichen2.html
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| | Scratching the Surface |
| | Spawned by artists like DJ Spooky, We, Sub Dub and Ben Neil, illbient music can be defined as a psychedelic, sample-heavy, all-encompassing amalgamation of trip-hop, hip-hop, dub, funk, jungle, noise, spoken word, atmospherics and ambient soundscapes (typically reflecting the profound subconscious struggle and exertion of urban living). | | | Through Slipstate and his own illbient creations, Dev79 aims to trigger strong emotions — beyond the boundaries of "good" or "bad" — in his listeners. | | | Of course, as times change, so does the illbient "scene." It remains open-ended as a sort of free-for-all for the artist and listener. |
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http://www.citypaper.net/articles/011702/mus.dj.shtml
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| | Sounds Online: Lo Fi and Illbient Reviews |
| | As for the disc's "illbient" title, the subgenre was made famous by the likes of DJ Spooky, who contributed some beats and vinyl tape material to this CD. | | | This month's weirdness award goes to Bil Bryant and his dedicated team of insane sound freaks behind the wonderful Lo-Fi & Illbient, an 83-track audio CD which seems to take the central premise that even recordings of power tools can be used to make hip-hop. | | | (For a crash course in Illbient, see Oct 97 issue of Keyboard.) "Spooky is the main music figure associated with illbient music," says Bryant, "which is a term for urban-based sample collage music," Other celebs on the disc are bassist djAZ, Knitting Factory guitarist Jim Plotkin, and others too numerous to list here. |
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http://www.soundsonline.com/revLOFI.shtml
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| | Sin:Ned - Turntable |
| | Illbient DJ philosopher reincarnated as a free-jazz instrumentalist. | | | Squeezing 26 tunes into a single disc of continuous mix, Modern Mantra is filled with DJ Spooky's signature of mixing style. | | | The second release of Kitmatic (Atomic Bubble) that goes beyond lounge-core. |
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http://www.maitreyana.com/turntable.htm
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| | sonomu: Barbecue Beets: Sunrise on a Rooftop in Brooklyn |
| | Labelled "illbient", it was a singlular mutation of Brooklyn hiphop, Jamaican dub and ambient music that succeeded in capturing and restructuring the queasy chaos of living in an information-overloaded society, and was best represented on disc by artists like We, DJ Spooky and Sub Dub. | | | The very first release was 'Bulbbs' by Lloop (another We alumnus), a mix cassette he created back in 1994 that was "lost in the data stream" and rediscovered by The Agriculture's musical spelunkers. | | | After a slew of thrilling albums, including the seminal compilation 'Incursions in Illbient' (Asphodel), the creative process seemed to have its way and evolution naturally set in. |
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http://sonomu.net/text/~barbecuebeetssun
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Songs of a Dead Dreamer |
| | DJ Spooky claims that the world is a mix, which is definitely the philosophy's adage - in that the listening to music is more than passive, its active dissection into your self, any sound can indeed be you. | | | The year is 2001, and I can fervently claim that this (along with Viral Sonata)is one of best ill/ambient albums out there, in that Spooky has effectively merged the spatial, sparse sounds of ambient music with the driving beat of hip-hop and dancehall reggae/dub to make a new product, a.k.a illbient music. | | | So what should you expect???....think the occasionally dense moods & atmospherics of "Dj Krush", coupled with the Avant garde downtempo of "Aphex Twin's - Selected ambient works", with a large helping of the textured Sonics and genre fusion and melodic beats of "Dj Shadow"...yet managing to completely separate himself into something completely unique to him. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001PAK?v=glance
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| | May 1999 |
| | As part of New York's Soundlab collective, Paul D Miller established himself as a pioneer in the "illbient" experimental electronic music scene, a genre that reflects the city's melting pot of sounds and flavours. |
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| | CD Baby: KUSSER: You & Me |
| | The success of 1999's Illbient Night Music led to appearances on the Aquatica compilation, remixes for Mad Monkey Records, and a key role in the indytronic supergroup, A.I. From this collective sprang the development of the Analog Aether and Deadly Discs imprints. | | | Kusser's growth as a composer and musician are evident in Deadly Discs' first release, You & Me. This album reflects eclectic musical interests and proves Kusser's reputation for creating the hardest beats around. | | | About KUSSER: Through his radio shows on community and pirate radio, he honed the tastes that would become Illbient Night Music. |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kusser
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| | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| | Musically, it's an "illbient" mixture of microhouse, glitch, hip-hop, world music, Tibetan chants, Indian tabla, and choral pieces, which DJ Spooky has raided from the Sub Rosa catalogue. | | | One becomes immediately aware that the record is going to be a cerebral affair by its inclusion of spoken word excerpts from Gilles Deleuze, Gertrude Stein, Antonin Artaud, and William S. Burroughs, among others. | | | He's spun reggae, dub, soul, and even easy listening '60s artist Esquivel, as well as pioneering illbient records since 1996's Song Of A Dead Dreamer. |
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http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/d/dj_spooky.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Music: Hell's Kitchen |
| | This is a thorougly dope album by a pair of DJs, producers, and musicians (catch some of their other material on the second and third Deep Concentration comps). | | | Though listeners might guess (correctly) that Ming + FS belong to New York's illbient scene from the cover and album title, the production duo comes off in a similar manner to Japanese producers like Fantastic Plastic Machine and Pizzicato Five. | | | Released in 1999, the album pre-dates, but anticipates, more celebrated albums from Deltron 3030, Aim and Only Child, but Hell's Kitchen should appeal to fans of any of the above. |
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| | Incursions in Illbient Evie's Eden |
| | The Incursions in Illbient is part of our discount Music catalog. | | | This product was released to the public on 29 October, 1996. | | | (a large picture of the Music Incursions in Illbient) |
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http://evieseden.com/amazon/asin.B000001PAU.Music_Incursions_in_Illbient.html
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| | Incursions In Illbient |
| | This CD is a beautiful compilation of New York Illbient, that is a must-have for any addict of the scene. | | | Each of the four artists on this disc has three consecutive tracks, except for Byzar, who have six in a row, (most likely because each track averages under three minutes). | | | can we call him the god of illbient yet? |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/students/VOX/Albums/incill.htm
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| | The Austin Chronicle Screens: The Spatial Engineer of the Invisible City |
| | As the coiner of the phrase "illbient" -- and the chief and most recognized member of that smallish subset of electronic music -- Spooky, née Paul D. Miller, 30, has in the past decade produced some of the most innovative and invigorating fringe music out there. | | | His collaborations and remix work -- with Kool Keith, Wu-Tang's Killah Priest, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and NYC neighbor/indie icon Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth -- are just the tip of the iceberg of his current output. | | | What about CDs?) and a boastful offer from DJ culture's most notorious renaissance spinthrift. |
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http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2001-03-02/screens_feature3.html
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Incursions in Illbient |
| | Fifteen of the most amazing illbient tracks blend seamlessly into one another, regardless of how disparate the elements, and their tastes intertwine in the mixing of their music. | | | Just listen to the first track, there aren't many basslines anywhere more crusher than this one. | | | illbient top 20: A list by easy, nyc dj |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001PAU/relacionarsec-20
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| | Wired News: The Doctor Is In |
| | His version of the so-called illbient genre has a wider appeal than some of the experimental music in the genre. | | | Israel is rapidly emerging from Brooklyn's critically lauded illbient music scene into mainstream music circles. | | | Illbient is a blending of traditional reggae and electronic dub music with the drum programming of modern dance genres like jungle, drum 'n' bass, and hip-hop. |
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| | W.i.G.--for Women in General |
| | Their styles and tastes are varied, but they all have a deep love of raw and unusual sounds and melodies, as well as an interesting take on what it's like to be female in a field frequently reserved for men. | | | Among the many DJ's who are part of the scene, W.I.G. spoke to four women: DJ Singe, DJ Mutamassic, One Love Lucy, and Jasmin. | | | Illbient shows have become known for their egalitarianism, lack of attitude, and anti-"clubbiness." |
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| | In the mid-1990s, Spooky began recording a series of singles and EPs; his debut LP was Songs of a Dead Dreamer, which is now widely regarded as the beginning of illbient. | | | Riddim Warfare (see 1998 in music) was an underground hit that include collaborations with Dr. | | | Growing up in DC, Spooky (born Paul Miller) became interested in punk and go-go music, and attended college in Maine, earning degrees in French literature and philosophy. |
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| | Sub Dub - Incursions in Illbient |
| | Sub Dub - Incursions in Illbient - 2LP Asphodel-0968 (m- / m-) (US 1996) |
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| | incursions in illbient cds, records, cd singles, rare vinyl, used music |
| | incursions in illbient cds, records, cd singles, rare vinyl, used music | | | incursions in illbient searchable catalogue for rare, new, imports and collectable records, cds and used music | | | Don't forget to look for the netsoundsmusic.com guarantee! |
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| | Beyond the sweet soul thump of house music, the gangsta boasts of hip-hop, and the rapid-fire beat mixing of techno, there's "illbient" -- perhaps the ultimate destination of DJ-written music. | | | Miller annotates his own albums, alluding to everyone from Gertrude Stein and Walter Benjamin to Sun Ra and Grandmaster Flash. | | | But don't expect to whip yourself into a dance frenzy when illbient's foremost proponent, DJ Spooky, drops in at the Middle East next Thursday to mix with like-minded alterna-folks Ben Neill, Edsel, Chainsuck, and Willie Wisley. |
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http://bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/music/reviews/11-28-96/DJ_SPOOKY.html
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| | ::: synchronic records ::: |
| | It's core sounds mirror the diverse worlds the label members inhabit - folk music, hip-hop, drum n bass, techno, ambient, illbient, whatever you want to call it - Synchronic takes you away from the names and labels and back to the roots of what "culture" in the information age is all about - exchange. | | | So forget what to call the music that the label puts on - it's stuff you have to listen to and decide how you experience it. | | | Think of it as folding and changing the currents of contemporary music to suit the needs of those bored by the conventional art, literary, and yes, dj scenes of the early 21st century. |
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| | DJ Rhizome's Guide to Life After Rock - Cellar Door |
| | " Since illbient is an approach rather than a sound, the available music isn't representative, but it does make for excellent dub-hop-weirdness listening: Aspodel's recent compilation Incursion in Illbience is a high-quality sonic document of this New York scene. | | | LLBIENT: More a dj mix attitude than a genre, illbient djs uphold experimentation, extreme recombination, and dissonance over danceability. | | | Like The Gerogerigegege, known for amplifying the sounds of on-stage masturbation. |
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http://hcs.harvard.edu/~cellar/winter97/rhizome.html
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| | Zohar: Keter - PopMatters Music Review |
| | Lead by chameleon pianist Uri Caine (this guy does it all: jazz, Mahler, Tin Pan Alley, you name it), and featuring the diverse talents of Aaron Bensoussan, a Moroccan/Sephardic vocalist and DJ Olive, member of illbient DJ crew WE, Zohar offers up a stylistic mix like nothing I have ever come across. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/z/zohar-keter.shtml
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| | Mandragora Records: Pure Psychedelic Noise |
| | Carved into 5 tracks for your listening pleasure. | | | Rather than putting together a straight compilation to showcase the unique sounds of our artists, Paradise Camp 23 samples and reworks the Mandragora catalog into an illbient hypermix. |
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| | 2002 : 03 fog « illbient « endersan |
| | The original mix is accompanied by two re-workings courtesy of The Kings of Convenience and Herbert, the former being a fully-fledged acoustic pop song complete with Norwegian vocals, and the latter a typically cut-up and addictive slice of electro funk. | | | Given Ninja Tune's history of eclecticism, it seems only natural that the English record label should have taken an interest in Andrew Broder. | | | 2002 : 03 fog « illbient « endersan |
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| | Incursions in Illbient |
| | A great disc, but perhaps not one to listen to late at night when you're alone. | | | The four acts featured here offer a grimly danceable bit of post-trip-hop, a variety of musical takes on urban decay as part of everyday existence. | | | If you're not familiar with the dark, decaying sound that's come to be known as illbient, this compilation makes a decent primer. |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/reviews/mar-17-97/incursions.html
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| | Lo-Fi & illbient - MIDI Classics |
| | Sample CD From ex-Sounds Good (Methods of Mayhem, On a Jazz Tip etc.) Producer Bil Bryant, Lo Fi and Illbient is a wild concoction of FXed beats, gritty grooves, battered basses and gutted guitars. | | | Organized by groups and tempos, this disc is perfect for those looking to create sound collages with a ruff and twisted urban feel. | | | Featuring innovative and critically acclaimed Illbient pioneer DJ Spooky, and whacKateers il B-1 and djAz this product delves into such unchartered territories as Collage beats, Mad Arab electric tar riffs, looped sound effects, hundreds of tripped out breaks (live and programmed), ill basses from a variety of instruments, and abrasive horn riffs. |
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http://www.midi-classics.com/f/f22237.htm
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| | Asphodelic - Asphodelic Review |
| | This sampler is quite representational of what Asphodel has to offer - mostly in the illbient and turntablist vein. | | | It features tracks form Tipsy, We, Mixmaster Mike (Beastie Boys DJ), Rob Swift, DJ Spooky and a few others as well. | | | A fantistic overview of cutting edge illbient sounds and turntablists. |
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| | Boomkat - Your independent music specialist |
| | From the leftfield work of the Anticon label through to the dubbed-out illbient of the Wordsound label, from DJ Spooky's sonic experimentation to Machine Drum's shattered beats, this is the show filling a musical gap on UK radio. | | | Default is a creative network of electronic music producers, DJs, VJs and visual artists from around the world, with regular events in and around Birmingham, UK, showcasing the cutting edge of warm electronic music. | | | This is the radio show that airs the music that took hip hop as a starting point and built on it. |
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| | Omniseek: /Music /Genres /Electronica /Styles /Illbient |
| | Various Incursions In Illbient (Asphodel) This CD is a beautiful compilation of New York Illbient, that is a must-have for any addict of the scene. | | | The official homepage of a New York City based illbient/trip-hop/drum n' bass music collective. | | | Top : Styles Dream Escape - dedicated to psychadelic trance, goa and ambient music. |
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| | The History of Rock Music. DJ Spooky: biography, discography, reviews, links |
| | DJ Spooky is Paul Miller, a Washington disc jockey, who moved to Manhattan in 1992, and soon became one of the spokespersons for the "illbient" movement (not only in music, but also as writer and visual artist). | | | DJ Spooky e` Paul Miller, un disc jockey di Washington, trasferitosi a Manhattan nel 1992, che divenne uno dei portavoce del movimento "illbient" (non solo nella musica, ma anche come scrittore e artista visivo). | | | Present Drums Of Death (Thirsty Ear, 2005) is a collaboration with Slayer's drummer Dave Lombardo, featuring Public Enemy's Chuck D, Dalek, Meredith Monk, Meat Beat Manifesto, Living Colour's Vernon Reid. |
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| | wrench soundscape 'state Street' |
| | You shouldn't be reading my post, you should be making your music. | | | I can live with that -- i think illbient is just a more structured ambient with beats | | | For a genre I'm not aware that I like, your stuff is... |
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| | DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID Subliminal Mind: |
| | As part of New York's SoundLab collective, DJ Spooky is recognized as one of the pioneers behind the city's experimental electronic scene that has come to known as "illbient," a musical genre that reflects the city's urban mixture of culturally diverse sounds and flavors. | | | Subliminal Minded: The EP is comprised of thirty plus minutes of remixes and ruminations based on his 1998 album Riddim Warfare. | | | Constantly in-demand behind the decks, DJing has taken Miller to nearly every major city on the globe, from Venezuela and Japan to Holland and Brazil. |
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| | Funender.com : View topic - now, mp3.com says I'm #19 on the illbient chart, but... |
| | now, mp3.com says I'm #19 on the illbient chart, but... | | | Funender.com : View topic - now, mp3.com says I'm #19 on the illbient chart, but... | | | I am probably a moron, but I'm not appearing in the illbient listing (top 100 or so) - am I missing something? |
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| | RUSCD 8234 - Jerusalem Under Fire |
| | ROIR's 2nd release from Raz Mesinai (a/k/a Badawi, a/k/a Bedouin) who is also one half of the Instinct and Asphodel band, Sub Dub. | | | This deep dub excursion is probably the most musical outing yet from anyone associated with that scene - intoxicating and combustible." Option | | | An Israeli born in Palestine, Raz is a master percussionist in the Middle Eastern tradition and a leading influence on the NYC "illbient" school of underground trip hop dubbers, along with DJ Spooky, WordSound I Powa, DJ Olive, Loop Lucy and Soulslinger. |
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