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Optometry

~ DJ Spooky
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (7 Aug 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Thirsty Ear
  • ASIN: B000069B12
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 153,799 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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    #38 in  Music > Hip-Hop & Rap > Turntablists

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Track Listings

1. Ibid Desmarches Ibid
2. Reactive Switching Strategies...
3. Variation Cybernetique: Rhythmic Pataphysic
4. Asphalt (Tome 2)
5. Optometry
6. Sequentia Absentia
7. Rosemary
8. Dementia Absentia
9. Parachutes
10. Absentia Absentia
11. Variation Cybernetique: Rhythmic Pataphysic (2)
12. Periphique
13. It's A Mad Mad Mad World

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Like an angry thunderstorm dissipating into still winds and humid temperatures, the free jazz and DJ squabble of Optometry opens like gangbusters 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

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4.0 out of 5 stars A wake-up call, 15 Aug 2003
I first heard this at a listening-post and within just a few minutes I was on my way out of the shop and it was in my bag.

I know nothing whatever of the band, the artists or anything so I'm just going to describe the music, how it is. This is simply some of the best, funkiest, most infectiously brilliant music I've ever heard. It's basically jazz-funk-fusion with a very This-Is-The-Future feeling running under it.

I admit that the first 3 tracks are the best, and after that the record's still excellent, but maybe not QUITE so excellent, hence only 4 stars.

However, those 3 tracks really are all you need. If ever there was music guaranteed to wake you up on a cold morning, hung over, having had no sleep, this is it. If I'm late for work I just put this on the walkman and I'm there in no time.

This really is good. When you first put it on it gives you that watcher-of-the-skies-when-the-first-star feeling. And for that alone, aside from any problems it may have (slightly pretentious vocals, incredibly pretentious titles, occasionally too electronically-oriented) it demands to be heard.

If you've got ears, buy it. I defy you not to be tapping your foot in seconds.

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