DJ Spooky - Rebirth of a Nation Live @ IMAX, London

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation - a solo multimedia remix of DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation, the cinematically sophisticated but ideologically flawed 1915 chronicle of the American Civil War and its aftermath.  Despite being America's first full length feature film and being cited as a seminal work of visual syntax, Griffith's revisionist message badly needed taking to task.  That sounds like a task for That Subliminal Kid. 
          
New York conceptual artist, writer, and musician Paul D Miller, in his guise as the noted turntablist DJ Spooky (That Subliminal Kid), has done more to mainstream the DJ-as-artist concept than perhaps anyone.  Before turning at least some of his attentions to the world of film, he has recorded a huge volume of music over the years, remixing artists from Metallica to Steve Reich and launching the NYC 'illbient' scene with his mix album Necropolis: The Dialogic Project and his debut solo release Songs of a Dead Dreamer. His 2002 CD Optometry, a collaboration with Matthew Shipp and other downtown NYC jazz musicians, was released to critical acclaim.  His newest release is Drums of Death, with Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Chuck D of Public Enemy, Vernon Reid of Living Color and Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto.  He's collaborated with eminent artists such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yoko Ono, Butch Morris, Kool Keith a.k.a. Doctor Octagon, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth.  He also scored the Sundance Film Festival award winner "Slam" starring poet Saul Williams.

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