I knew it. Yer skared. bok bok.

I listened to about 1 minute of it. That's all I could listen to. What's your trouble with Dancehall? If you want this kind of club music then yeah, Dancehall's not going to be your thing. Also, I wouldn't call this instrumental, I'd call it no singing.

I have a problem with dancehall too...but I like these dub-illbient jams. If you like this, check out some of DJ Spooky's stuff.

I think really my trouble with dancehall is the stockness of it. The stock sounds. Please don't use that keyboard piano sound. You know the one. Don't get me started on the vocals.
I love the idea of dancehall, but when I hear it, I immediately want it to be something else. That something else is kinda like this (Razor X).

Black8 - I know some Spooky, mostly Songs of a Dead Dreamer. Does he do a dancehall record? I actually kinda gave up after that...I find him laughably pretentious (after seeing him live), but I love that record.

It appears I have been misinformed about dancehall. Thanks for the song, hb.

And hellbient--if you don't think the laughable pretension is part of the charm, you probably won't ever be much of a DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid [sic] fan. That said, based on what I know of your musical tastes, it seems likely that there's at least an album or two you'd enjoy.

My thing with music is if it's good it's good. I gave Spooky a few tries after "Songs..." and didn't like what I heard, so I just kinda moved on...I do think he's very talented though.
I generally enjoy pretension in music, but I saw him live and it was like a god damned college thesis, with long-winded pat on the back explanations of the songs before he played them. It was unbearable.

The Bug album is very similar to the Razor X stuff, but it doesn't have the versions, and the singing/MCing really grates. But the music is the same kinda awesome crunched out racket.
Keep hope alive...

I'm not what would call a huge DJ Spooky fan either, but I think Riddim Warfare and Sublimial Minded are good offerings from him. Dancehall? Nah...but there are some very Razor X-like moments on both records.
I've seem Spooky twice. The first time, he was on 4 decks and I thought it sounded like an extended train wreck.
The second time he played bass and came with an MC, tabla player, a DJ, keyboardist and the AMAZING Jo Jo Mayer on drums! It was one of the best shows I've ever seen...period.

I'd forgotten that I also own his Viral Sonata, which I think I like better than "Songs..."

With a lot of electronic artists, I'll buy an album or two and get sick of them, so I stop buying. Or feel that their other releases won't offer much new. So I just sorta move on. It's not a conscious thing, it just happens.

I also forgot I saw him, Christian Marclay and DJ Olive doing a 9 turntable event awhile back. That was excellent.