September 29, 2006
Waterloo Park Goes Spooky
Aqua Teen Hungerforce is one of our favorite late-night TV shows. Cartoon Network's trippy and witty antics of fast food products living in the suburbs of New Jersey has been entertaining inebriated viewers since Adult Swim's debut. One of the signature artists in Adult Swim's motley crew of hip-hop contributers is DJ Spooky, who penned theme songs and more for these cult cartoon favorites.
Hailing from Washington D.C. and armed with a degree in French Literature and Philosophy, Spooky has collaborated with everyone from Wu-Tang's Killah Priest to Slayer's Dave Lombardo, and mixed everything from Charlie Parker to arcade classic Galaga to create some of the most intelligent and freshest brands of electronic hip-hop out today.
His enlightened turntable styling is finding its most proper venue tonight at Waterloo Park, with the third installment of The Alamo Drafthouse's Austin Fuzion. Framing the DJ with two 40-foot screens projecting the latest in video art technology, the latest rendition of Alamo's Rolling Roadshow blends live video manipulation set to the beat of the music. If you missed the first two (Cut Chemist and RJD2), you missed out. Don't miss out a third time.
DJ Spooky
Tonight
Waterloo Park [map]
Doors at 6, Local Artists Start at 7, All Ages
Free Admission, No Outside Food or Drink (Beer, Food Available Inside)
Website
Photo courtesy of umain.edu
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terrible, terrible, terrible. not that i expected much from this gig, but was surprised to hear spooky was worse than the guys before him. left within his first 2 minutes. why does austin have such a difficult time with quality electronic musicians/djs? way too many guys who lack fundamentals and are an embarrassing representation of the music; but hey, they get gigs and are the "dj". let's learn to mix + program, fellas.
i'm obviously whining and subject to the "well why don't you do better" response, though it's just amazing to me who gets put on to play music at bars/clubs here in austin; that chit don't fly in other cities with an electronic music scene. we do the rock well though...
on a final note, where's the fusion in these fusion gigs, this isn't 1995.
I'm surprised he played so much pop--Mariah Carey, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, Michael Jackson...hell, even the Beatles. At least RJD2 played stuff you've never heard before.
Hm, bitter techno dork, I'm a techno DJ and thought the show was pretty good. Read my thoughts here: http://atxedm.net/?p=18