> I've seen him and he was OK - he did this live double-bass thing as well, > not a great DJ, but the concept was interesting. Spooky doesn't see himself > as mainstream at all, in fact he gets a lot of flack for his intellectual > approach from the NY establishment. He sees it like, why can't an > African-American man be an intellectual, a conceptualist, I don't want to do > what the mainstream deems to be 'Black music' like gangsta rap or whatever. > He is big on contemporary French philosophy (more influential than you'd > think) and sees himself as intervening in those discourses.
Yeah, i have always had a bit of respect for spooky, and certainly wouldn't have put him in the 'mainstream' category. I know he has done some stuff with kool keith who tends to be right on the money in terms of choosing collaborators. "The industry is wack" - Kool Keith
