Necropolis: The Dialogic Project

DJ Spooky | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shadow Records
• ASIN: B0002VGQHI
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,515 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spooky pushes the music, April 22, 2001

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This review is from: Necropolis: Dialogic Project (Audio CD)

This was originally released in 1996 along with his solo project "Songs of a Dead Dreamer". 1995 and 1996 were big years for the NYC illbient/dub/ambient scene, and this mix CD reflects that. Mad tracks by other leading illbient artists are included, such as Byzar, Subdub, abstract junglist DJ Soulsinger, and WE (Quark Soup is one of the dopest dub tracks I have ever heard). The album is very abstract and is hard to swallow for some, the first two tracks sound like noise to the untrained ear, understandably. But Dj Spooky's theory is Abstraction, or a Stream of Consciousness, as he defines it. Its all done on purpose, before he drops his own remix of Ben Neill's "Sistrum" (Grapheme)and gets the album started. But personally I feel Zvona the most, I dont know what language it is in (perhaps Hungarian?), but this track defines this album as "illbient" - in that Spooky is unafraid to utilize anything to maintain the Stream of Consciousness. This is a REAL Dj mix and nothing else by Sasha or whatever can even compare to it; its all about artcore.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for everyone, September 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Necropolis: Dialogic Project (Audio CD)

This album is an exploration of sound that tantilates the senses and aroses the mind. It expresses thought and rythem in bizarre ways creating a texture of sound that is not easily appriciated by your average music lover. Like a fine wine this album is not for everyone. If your a raver club kiddy looking for something new to bounce to this is not the album for you. If you want an album you can space out to one your commute or just want to sit down and listen intently to all the aspect of this music this is the album for you.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New viceral soundscapes in Illbient, September 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Necropolis: Dialogic Project (Audio CD)

Spooky's genius does not lie with his technical skills alone. His ability to meld the electronic sound fields with a new feeling of natural, interior landscapes is unparalled. When you are enmeshed into his rhythms, samples, sounds, and mixes, you neither pay attention to any singular part, nor do you imagine a person, sitting in the studio with his record collection creating albums. No, you instead are transported to some unconcious fragment of your imagination where the darkness of the artificial and natural worlds combine to express a new dialectic. Here, the barriers between the live and the recorded, the electronic and the natural become distorted. You start to dislodge yourself of the rigid burden of Western music with its clear beginning and end. Necropolis then becomes vibrations, disturbances in sound that can be summoned again whether in the past by association or some uncertain future.