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DJ Sweaty is more like it. He seems desparately eager to demonstrate his art critical bona fides. First he appropriates hip hop DJ culture and now he ants to apropriate art culture, dropping names like Jeff Koons and Phillip Glass. Culture climbing. And isn't DJing really just piggy backing on the artists who actually create something? First he exploits the creators for their music music they made to advance himself and now he exploits them for their theories. Samo.

DJ Sweaty is more like it. He seems desparately eager to demonstrate his art critical bona fides. First he appropriates hip hop DJ culture and now he ants to apropriate art culture, dropping names like Jeff Koons and Phillip Glass. Culture climbing. And isn't DJing really just piggy backing on the artists who actually create something? First he exploits the creators for their music music they made to advance himself and now he exploits them for their theories. Samo.

DJ Sweaty is more like it. He's working awfully hard. He seems desparately eager to demonstrate his art critical bona fides. First he appropriates hip hop DJ culture and now he wants to apropriate art culture, dropping names like Jeff Koons and Phillip Glass. Culture climbing. And isn't DJing really just piggy backing on the artists who actually create something? First he exploits the creators for the music they made to advance himself and now he exploits them for their theories. Samo.

Didn't I hear that at PS1 last summer?

Love this segment - relevant to me.

Paul don't you think there's a streak in our world that's just plain sleazy and that it generally takes over - that we do need to somehow manage to protect real creations?

I'm sure Paul's the book is available for free, right?

Hey, Paul made an interesting comment about connectedness and how that impacts fundamentalism. He should check out an article called Cell Phone Technology and the Challenge of Absent Presence by Kenneth J. Gergen. I think he would find it very interesting. Thanks for a great show!

Paul,

What do you think of the mixtape culture in modern day hip hop and it's relation to the traditional "album."

Disconnection = Danger
This is why the West can't just withdraw from Africa/the Middle East.
The West has to bring them into modernity for our own protection.

This is fascinating. I'm forever intrigued by the potential of sampling and borrowing ideas. Development and innovation really relies on borrowing.

I'm an architect working in South China (unless i'm in Brooklyn) and there's an amazing "bootleg" culture there that extends from the obvious brand bootlegs...all the way to urban planning.

So much of the propulsive development and city growth there comes from this unofficial, maybe-illegal sharing. It's not so much a crime as a cultural necessity.

"Hidden" fifths? Those fifths are right out there!

dj spooky - have you checked out mixwit.com (reported on a fairly recent soundcheck)? what are your thoughts?

moiz

Unrelated comment,

there is definitely a different sound to the new studio, at least while listening over the internet. A bit crisper, but the room also sounds larger