Quick & Dead [Import]

DJ Spooky, Scanner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 30, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sulphur
• ASIN: B00004KRYR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #613,631 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Journey

2. Edison

3. Uncanny

4. Ngugi

5. Dialogic

6. Channel Float

7. Kybernetes

8. Guanxi

9. Synchronism 2

10. Heterotopian

11. Snowshore

12. Synchronism

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really incredible album....., October 9, 2000

By 

J. Michael Showalter (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: DJ Spooky Vs Scanner: The Quick and the Dead (Audio CD)

Certainly, this is a great album; in the end, the best that it could do... setting aside that it is a heck of a work unto itself, would be to introduce to a wider audience the strange works of Scanner, who is.... an artist of... uncommon nature....

The bulk of people reading this review, I am assuming, are fans of DJ Spooky: the works of Scanner are just not known. Fans of Spooky shouldn't be disappointed; although this is no where near as accessible as the 'Riddim Warfare' album (which, although pretty artistic... could be listened to by a 'major' audience-- Pharoh Monch, Killah Priest and Kool Keith were all on it...) it is as accesible as the 'Freight Elevator Quartet' album, and, probably, shares the title with it of his most important and brilliant work (though 'Viral Sonata', released as Paul Miller... remains his furthest artistic reach). This is a listenable version of his 'illbent' creation: world-sounds mixed with scratching, noise, and minimalist beats... overwrought with Scanner's work.... who does similar things, adding in captured cell-phone conversations....

This album also can be liked straight off the bat-- it doesn't take four or five listens like some of Spooky's other stuff-- in this way, it's probably more like Scanner's canon, which, although somewhat weird, doesn't require years to get into. I highly recommend this album both to fans of traditional drum n' bass and to fans of more experimental stuff....

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tried to run but couldnt hide, May 24, 2000

By 

Todd Allen Voss - See all my reviews

This review is from: DJ Spooky Vs Scanner: The Quick and the Dead (Audio CD)

well, when i first listened to this album in it's entirety i must say the first thought that popped into my head was, "man, what a waste of time, money, and talent". thankfully i stopped writing things off so quickly and gave this album another chance and boy was i wrong. this is one softly tough piece of work here. i would recommend this album to people who like experimental music. the whole idea of this album was to blend two talents and i think it worked out quite well. thanks for the time. peace to all.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars if it was longer, August 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Quick & Dead (Audio CD)

This is Dj Spooky's (aka Paul D. Miller) only joint effort with Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud). The styles on this disk range widely as they do with the individual albums by these artists. The style is generally "illbient" (meaning a diverse agglomeration of drum'n'bass, ambient and dub).

These are two extremely innovative and talented artists who clearly had no conflict of artistic interests on this collaboration. The only negative aspect of this album is the fact that it is less than 40 minutes in length.

Nevertheless - a must for any serious spooky or scanner fan.