- Audio CD (July 9 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Outside Music
- ASIN: B000069B12
- Other Editions: Audio CD | LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#73,416 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #29 in Music > Dance & DJ > Turntablists
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Track Listings
| 1. Ibid, desmarches, ibid |
| 2. Ractive Switching Strategies For The Control Of Uninhibited Air |
| 3. Variation Cybernetique: Rhythmic Pataphysic (Part 1) |
| 4. Asphalt (Tome II) |
| 5. Optometry |
| 6. Sequentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation I) |
| 7. Rosemary |
| 8. Dementia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation II) |
| 9. Parachutes |
| 10. Absentia Absentia (Dialectical Triangulation III) |
| 11. Variation Cybernetique: Rhythmic Pataphysic (Part II) |
| 12. Periphique |
| 13. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, World |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
Like an angry thunderstorm dissipating into still winds and humid temperatures, Optometry opens like gangbusters with free jazz and DJ squabble, and then slowly spirals into more meditative moods. Manning laptop, kalimba, and turntable, New York DJ-theorist DJ Spooky stretches and shifts the free jazz ramblings of the Matthew Shipp quartet like a sea captain navigating a treacherous ocean. Spooky is as much an improviser as Shipp and crew, adding atmospheric samples, gentle melodies, and laptop mayhem at will. Beat poetry by Carl Hancock Rux adds hip-hop edge, and Spooky still opts for pretentious song titles ("Reactive Switching Strategies for the Control of Uninhabited Air"), but you definitely get the feeling that something fresh is happening here. Optometry sure ain't dance music, and it's too funky for free jazz purists, but it's just right for DJ Spooky's subliminal mind music. --Ken Micallef
Chronique amazon.fr
On doit l'idée de ce disque au directeur de la collection dans laquelle il s'inscrit, à savoir "The Blues Series" du label américain Thirsty Ear dirigée par le pianiste Matthew Shipp qui s'est grosso modo fixé comme cahier des charges de mixer les formes traditionnelles du jazz avec les dernières avancées de l'avant-garde. Outre le free jazz où il s'est régulièrement illustré comme un musicien extrêmement accompli, on sait par ailleurs le Bostonien fan de fulgurances électriques (Jimi Hendrix) et ouvert à la culture des DJ, c'est-à-dire tant au hip-hop qu'à l'illbient dont DJ Spooky, Paul D. Miller de son vrai nom, fut un des principaux concepteurs avec DJ Olive. Sur la trame proposée par l'idée de base de la série, quelques jazzmen, et non des moindres (le saxophoniste Joe McPhee, le bassiste William Parker, le batteur Guillermo E. Brown), croisent le fer avec quelques trublions du rap (Priest, Napoleon, etc.), boostés par des scratches ouverts à toutes les influences (L'Inde, l'Afrique) du Subliminal Kid. --Philippe Robert
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best DJ album ever!!!,
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This review is from: Optometry (Audio CD)
This is a fine piece of work. DJ Spooky is tops in my book. What better way to create a master work than to hire the help of musicians like William Parker, Matt Shipp, etc...Great, great album!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Warning: Mostly Jazz,
By gallipoli (Toronto, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Optometry (Audio CD)
Perhaps I'll sound terminally ignorant for this statement, but I was a bit surprised by the jazz content of this album. I expected that Spooky would use some jazz samples, but it's more Spooky as a guest on Matthew Shipp tunes.Nothing wrong with that, it just ends up being a very heavily jazz-flavored album. If you like jazz with a touch of hip-hop, I recommend it. But those looking for normal Spooky stuff should probably check out his other albums.
5.0 out of 5 stars
More great DJ Spooky:,
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This review is from: Optometry (Audio CD)
This is my third DJ Spooky CD (File Under Futurism, Modern Mantra, and Optometry) and I like it a lot!File Under Futurism was garbage except for a few songs. Modern Mantra is absolutely spectacular, and I have listened to it over 20 (yes, twenty) times in that last week! This CD fits between the two. Some of the songs are great, some are just OK. The first few tracks are kinda toned down acid jazz, but after those are over, the CD starts to pick up. Some of the songs are a little too slow, but it all works together in the end. Some rap, some techno, some real imagination on the behalf of Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky.) I would not recommend this as a first DJ Spooky CD (that job goes to Modern Mantra in IMO), but if you like DJ Spooky, this is definitely a must have!
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