The Universal Zulu Nation

"THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION" BY ASAAD ALLAH

THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION

THE ZULU NATION IS NO GANG. IT IS AN ORGANIZATION OF INDIVIDUALS IN SEARCH OF SUCCESS, PEACE, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING AND THE RIGHTEOUS WAY OF LIFE.

ZULU MEMBERS MUST SEARCH FOR WAYS TO SURVIVE POSITIVELY IN THIS SOCIETY.

NEGATIVE ACTIVITIES ARE ACTIONS BELONGING TO THE UNRIGHTEOUS. THE ANIMAL NATURE IS THE NEGATIVE NATURE. ZULUS MUST BE CIVILIZED.

ZULU MEMBERS MUST LEARN THE INFINITY LESSONS.

ZULUS SHOULD NOT BE AFFILIATED WITH ANY ORGANIZATIONS, WHOSE FOUNDATION IS BASED ON NEGATIVENESS.

ZULUS ARE EXPECTED TO BE AT PEACE WITH SELF AND OTHERS AT ALL TIMES.

ZULUS ARE TAUGHT TO STAND UP FOR WHATEVER THEY BELIEVE IN AND TO BELIEVE IN THE LAWS OF THE PROPHET MUWSA(MOSES) "AN EYE FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH".

ZULUS ARE TO GREET THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHEN ENTERING AND LEAVING A MEETING OR ANYWHERE ON THIS PLANET EARTH.

ZULUS ARE TO STAY AWAY FROM TROUBLE. ZULUS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SETTLE THEIR DIFFERENCES WITH OTHER ZULUS BY FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER.

ZULUS SHOULD NOT BRING ZULUS INTO THEIR PERSONAL MATTERS.IF IN NEED OF GUIDANCE OR ASSISTANCE WITH THEIR PROBLEM THEY SHOULD SPEAK TO THEIR ZULU LEADERS.

ZULUS ARE FORBIDDEN TO ADVERTISE THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THE ZULU NATION IN A DISRESPECTFUL WAY,ESPECIALLY USING OUR NAME WITH CRIME OR VIOLENCE.

ZULUS SHOULD REMEMBER TO LEAD A PEACEFUL WAY OF LIFE AND STRIVE TO BE RIGHTEOUS.

ZULUS ARE TO SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE OF SELF IN ORDER TO ELEVATE THEMSELVES FROM THE JUNGLE WORLD.

ZULUS SHOULD TRY TO UPLIFT THE ZULU NATION AT ALL TIMES.THEY SHOULD ENLIGHTEN THOSE WHO GIVE US A BAD NAME INTO THE TRUE WAY OF A ZULU,WHICH IS DESCRIBED IN THE INFINITY LESSON NUMBER FOUR,QUESTION NUMBER FIVE('WHAT IS THE JOB OF A ZULU?')

ALL ZULUS SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN ZULU NATION UNIFICATION RALLIES.

ANYBODY NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE CHANGES BEING MADE IN THE ZULU NATION IS NOT A ZULU.

ZULU KINGS AND ZULU QUEENS ARE EQUALLY AS IMPORTANT IN THE FOUNDATION.RESPECT MUST BE INSURED.LEADERS MUST BE RESPECTED(KINGS AND QUEENS).

THE ZULU NATION ANNIVERSARY(FOUNDED DATE)IS NOVEMBER TWELVE.THIS IS THE OFFICIAL DATE AND SHOULD BE CELEBRATED THE SAME WEEK,FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,WHEREVER THE TWELFTH FALLS ON.

THE BELIEFS OF THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION

WE BELIEVE IN THE ONE GOD,WHO IS CALLED BY MANY NAMES -ALLAH, JEHOVAH, YAHWEH, ELOAHIM, JAH, GOD, THE MOST HIGH, THE CREATOR, THE SUPREME ONE.WE BELIEVE,AS AMAZULU,WE WIL NOT FIGHT OR KILL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS OVER WHICH PROPER NAME TO CALL GOD.WE BELIEVE GOD WILL COME TO BE SEEN BY THE HUMAN EYE AND WILL STRAIGHTEN OUT THE PROBLEMS THAT HUMAN BEINGS BROUGHT UPON THIS PLANET SO-CALLED EARTH.

WE BELIEVE IN THE HOLY BIBLE AND THE GLORIOUS QUR'AN AND IN THE SCRIPTURES OF ALL THE PROPHETS OF THE LORD.

WE BELIEVE THAT THE BIBLE HAS BEEN TAMPERED WITH AND MUST BE REINTERPRETED,SO THAT HUMANKIND WILL NOT BE SNARED BY THE FALSEHOODS THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED TO IT.

WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH WHITE SUPREMACY,MANY OF THE HISTORY BOOKS WHICH ARE USED TO TEACH AROUND THE WORLD IN SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND OTHER PLACES OF LEARNING HAVE BEEN DISTORTED,ARE FULL OF LIES AND FOSTER HATE WHEN TEACHING ABOUT OTHER RACES IN THE HUMAN FAMILY.WE BELIEVE THAT ALL HISTORY BOOKS THAT CONTAIN FALSEHOODS SHOULD BE DESTROYED AND THAT THEIR SHOULD BE HISTORY BOOKS BASED ON TRUE FACTS OF WHAT EVERY RACE HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE CIVILIZATION OF HUMAN BEINGS.TEACH TRUE HISTORY,NOT FALSEHOODS,ONLY THEN CAN ALL RACES,AND NATIONALITIES RESPECT,LIKE OR MAYBE LOVE EACH OTHER FOR WHAT OUR PEOPLE DID FOR THE HUMAN RACE AS A WHOLE.

WE BELIEVE IN TRUTH,WHATEVER IT IS.IF THE TRUTH OR IDEA YOU BRING US IS BACKED BY FACTS,THEN WE AS AMAZULU BEAR WITNESS TO THIS TRUTH.TRUTH IS TRUTH.

WE BELIEVE THAT FOR ANYONE WHO IS INTO ANY RELIGON OR FAITH,THAT RELIGON OR FAITH SHOULD UPLIFT YOU AS A HUMAN BEING,NOT MAKE YOU INTO A RELIGIOUS SLAVE OR ZOMBIE;AND AND THAT THE RELIGON SHOULD NOT MIX FALSEHOOD WITH TRUTH;AND THAT THE RLIGON SHOULD BE A FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM,JUSTICE AND EQUALITY FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS AS WELL AS FOR ANYTHING OF LIFE THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO THIS PLANET SO-CALLED EARTH.

WE BELIEVE THAT RACISM AND HATE ARE TRYING TO RULE THE LIVES OF HUMAN BEINGS ON THIS PLANET SO-CALLED EARTH AND THAT ONLY BELIEF IN THE SUPREME ONE AND TRUTH WILL DESTROY THE DISEASES CALLED RACISM AND HATE.

WE BELIEVE THAT HUMAN BEINGS HAVE CAUSED MUCH HARM TO MOTHER EARTH AND MUST DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE POLLUTION OF THE AIR,WATER,LAND AND SPACE.WE BELIEVE THAT HUMAN BEINGS HAVE ALSO CAUSED HARM TO ANIMAL AND SEA LIFE AND THAT HUMANS MUST CORRECT THEIR WRONGS OR THEY WILL BE HEADED FOR DESTRUCTION AS IT HAS BEEN PROPHESIZED.ONLY HUMAN BEINGS WITH THE HELP OF GOD CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE.

WE BELIEVE IN THE MENTAL RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.THER ARE MANY OF THE HUMAN RACE WHO ARE BLIND,DEAF AND DUMB TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF SELF AND OTHERS,AND WE FEEL THE ONES WHO KNOW SHOULD TEACH.

WE BELIEVE THAT LIFE, CREATION, EVERYTHING IS BASED ON MATHEMATICS.

WE BELIEVE IN THE SEEN AND WHAT IS KNOWN OF THE UNSEEN.WE BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE MIND AND THAT KNOWLEDGE IS AS INFINITE AS GOD HIMSELF.

WE BELIEVE IN JUSTICE FOR ALL, WHETHER IN GOD OR NOT. WE BELIEVE AS OTHERS WE ARE DUE EQUAL JUSTICE AS HUMAN BEINGS.

WE BELIEVE THAT AMAZULU ARE PEOPLE OF PEACE AND THAT WE RESPECT THOSE WHO RESPECT US,AND WE ARE AT PEACE WITH THOSE WHO ARE AT PEACE WITH US,BUT IF WE ARE ATTACKED BY AN AGGRESSOR OR OPPRESSOR,THEN WE BELIEVE AND ARE TAUGHT THAT WE SHOULD FIGHT IN THE NAME OF ALLAH,JAH, JEHOVAH, YAHWEH, ELOAHIM, THE MOST HIGH, GOD THOSE WHO COME AGAINST US.

WE BELIEVE IN POWER,EDUCATION IN TRUTH, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, EQUALITY, WORK FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE UPLIFTMENT OF THE PEOPLE.

THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION STANDS FOR:KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, EQUALITY, PEACE, UNITY, LOVE, RESPECT, WORK FUN, OVERCOMING THE NEGATIVE WITH THE POSITIVE, ECONOMICS, MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE, LIFE, TRUTH, FACTS, FAITH AND THE ONENESS OF GOD.

WHAT IS THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION?

-ALTHOUGH WE ARE STRONG BELIEVERS IN THE CULTURE OF HIP HOP,WE AS ZULUS REALIZE THAT THIS IS A REAL WORLD,WITH REAL PROBLEMS AND REAL SOLUTIONS. SO, AS A ZULU FAMILY WE WILL STRIVE TO DO OUR BEST TO UPLIFT OURSELVES FIRST-THEN SHOW OTHERS HOW TO UPLIFT THEMSELVES MENTALLY, SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY, ECONOMICALLY AND SOCIALLY.

WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION?

To educate, develop and improve the present state of mind of adults and youth around the world.

To spread our message of love, peace and unity amongst all races through our ways and actions.

To preserve the culture of Hip-Hop and all art forms created from it and to use music as a medium for cultural exchange and understanding.

To provide a safe haven to nurture the inherent genius of adults and youth around the world.

To assist others in developing careers and opportunities as they express their God-given potential and talents.

WHO CAN GET INVOLVED WITH THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION?

Anyone who believes in our goals and can thrive individually and in group settings should consider membership. We will consider working with any organization that believes as we do. This means that we will consider joint projects with the Nation of Islam, black churches, the urban league, or any other organization that exists to serve our community. We also encourage all women, senior citizens, and children to consider becoming members. The only way we can rise as a people is by forgetting our differences and looking again to our families, friend, and support systems, for solutions to problems (instead of watching for some other person to tell us what to do).

WHERE DID THE NAME 'ZULU NATION' COME FROM?

The Zulu Nation is a great South African tribe that became as empire under the leadership of Shaka Zulu, one of the greatest Zulu Chieftans (leaders).

WHAT DOES THE WORD 'ZULU' MEAN IN RELATION TO THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION?

The word means "the Heavens" and "strength in numbers".

WHAT DOES THE WORD 'AMAZULU' MEAN TO THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION?

The word Amazulu means "the people of Heaven".

WHAT IS THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION?

The Universal Zulu Nation is an organization of men, women, and youth which was founded in the United States by a Nubian (Black) man named Afrika Bambaataa. This organization has hundreds of chapters throughout the world. Its members, who came from many different races, cultures, nationalities, countries and religions believe in freedom, justice, equality, knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Zulu Nation members discourage divisions and want to see peace and unity on the planet earth with all races. Without these, we all face social, economic, physical and spiritual destruction. This is the Universal Zulu Nation.

WHEN AND WHERE WAS THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION FOUNDED?

The Universal Zulu Nation was founded in 1973 in the Bronx, New York, by a young student named Afrika Bambaataa. It was his idea to use music to spread the message of the Universal Zulu Nation. He knew that music is unversal and crosses all barriers. So with the birth of Hip-Hop, which started in New York City, Afrika Bambaataa, members of the Zulu Nation and many of his groups like; the Soulsonic Force, Shango, Rock Steady Crew, D.S.T., Fab Five Freddy, Phase 2, Dondi, and Futura 2000, started to travel throughout the world to spread Hip-Hop culture.

WHAT IS THE MISSION OF THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION?

As we are dedicated to improving and uplifting ourselves and our communities, all Zulu Nation members should be involved in some activity that is positive and gives back to the community. Hip-Hop music is our vehicle of expression. We can learn to write, produce, market, promote, publish, perform and televise our own music, for our own people. There are too many divisions between males and females. There are too many divisions between young adults and their parents and too many divisions between rich and poor-urban and suburban. Now is the time for us to build together as well as develop individually. All of the ills and problems that plague our community, we are going to address. We already know Hip-Hop and the Zulu Nation are here to stay. Both are over twenty years old and both exist and thrive across the world. Some of the projects we plan to organize and become involved with are:

canned food drives
tutoring sessions
home and building clean-ups
mentoring programs
neighborhood protection
seminars
conferences
newsletters
magazines
books
concerts
programs that close the gaps between the generations and the sexes

WHO IS A MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION?

Diamond D, Ice-T, Kool DJ Red Alert, Nikki D, A Tribe Called Quest, Brand Nubian, Leaders of the New School, Positive K, Yo-Yo, Fat Joe, Jungle Brothers, DJ Kool, Funkmaster Flex, Q-Bert, BIO, BRIM, King Sun, Rock Steady Crew, Roc Raider

Asaad Allah, Chapter Leader of Washington, DC .

"THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION" BY ASAAD ALLAH

Related: True Meaning of Hip Hop, Afrika Bambaata Bio

steez

http://magyar.mashkulture.net

Recommended

[img]http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/o/o3/Dragons of Eden.jpg[/img]This is one of my favourites book.If you want to know what is middle brain,you must imagine it,but this writer can explain what is left and right brain,and how do they work.And it is a bit sci-fi,and he is a little bit drog user,like Leary with his circuits....oh,if you don't know,look after!

www.leary.com

Imaging the tenth dimension

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php

dope!!

Aura

tanuld meg látni az aurát

http://koli.kando.hu/profecia/Aura/seeauhun.htm

concentration exercises

http://www.thiaoouba.com/yinyan.htm

hey,it's really fun!!you will see something,whatever is that!

I would like to introduce Andrew Feldmar

...who is a genius,mathematist/psychologist,ill-minded,whatever...

http://www.soteria.hu/index.php?page_id=19&minute_id=1


magyarul:


www.daath.hu

New world order pt.2(Hungarian version)

http://mek.oszk.hu/01500/01560/html/03.htm

New World order

New world order is an integrative millenarian conspiracy theory that appears in both religious and secular versions. It emerged as a combination, and recombination, of the reaction by fundamentalist Christian eschatology to New Age ideas, with the long-standing disposition to blame conspiracies for shifting social inequities. [1]
Many believe the idea of the "new world order" originated in the early 1900s with Cecil Rhodes, who advocated that the British Empire and the United States should jointly impose a Federal World Government (with of course English as the official language) to bring about lasting world peace. Lionel Curtis, who also believed in this idea, founded the Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups in 1909, which led to the establishment of the British based Royal Institute for International Affairs in 1919 and the U.S. based Council on Foreign Relations in 1920. The concept was further developed by Edward M. House, a close advisor to Woodrow Wilson during the negotiations to set up the League of Nations (it is unclear whether it was House or Wilson who invented the actual phrase). Another important influence was the futurist H.G. Wells, a vigorous advocate for World Government.There is a prediction that the next major historical world upheaval will emerge from the worldwide web.As a sign of the growing influence of the worldwide web in the human civilization today, a group of advocates from different parts of the world, adhering to The Globalist Manifesto, are snowballing the formation of a global political party of selected individuals for the formation of a global government.This party may or may not be influenced by "conspirators". Their websites had been rating in the top 10 of the Yahoo and Alta Vista search engines under the topic of "formation of global government". Some of their websites were also in the top ten in the Google search.
Elements of the conspiracy theory are present in the populism of the nineteenth century. The theories in their present form can be traced to the collapse of Soviet Communism and President George H. W. Bush's new world order speech of 11 September 1991. In it he described the United States' objectives for post-cold-war cooperation with the former Soviet Union, using the phrase "new world order."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy)

Traditions and modern societies pt.1

A szimbólumok és szertartások szerepe a modern kori ember életében




http://www.inco.hu/inco3/hagyo/cikk0h.htm

brand nu second hand

http://www.secondhandsongs.com/song/9251.html

A Phone Conversation with Paul D. Miller a.k.a. Dj Spooky

100 years from now, William S. Burroughs’ legacy will be enormous. Monuments will be erected of his gaunt junkie frame. His Nike Ad will air all the time, proving that even cooperate America felt the need to pay tribute to his Vision. Still, in the late nineties, with Y2K imminent, few people glorify the genius that was Burroughs. Enter Paul D. Miller: cyberkid wünderkind. Still in his twenties, Paul Miller epitomizes the post-human philosophy that Old Bill predicted forty years ago. A musician, writer and artist, Miller’s mark is already being placed upon the world of modern media. His personal weapon, the BEAT - and the power that it’s rhythm unleashes.
A conversation with Mr. Miller, who records music under the alias DJ Spooky, that Subliminal Kid, is like a trip through the library of today’s technocrat. Hip Hop, Sci-Fi, Videography and the Internet are explored with a wit and wisdom that only a true sage can deliver. Paul D. Miller is that sage - John the Baptist to the Church of What’s Happening Now. His art carefully destroys concepts and notions of genre - jumping from link to link in hypertext autoeroticism. Confused? Peep his records, especially the New LP "Riddem Warfare", and read on. Get ready kids - Miller’s mind travels far. Miles beyond Thunderdome.
ANO: Since your name is a direct reference to William S. Burroughs, how do you feel your music coincides with Burrough’s philosophy?
SPOOKY: A lot of his work was about a corporate colonization of the collective unconsciousness. How people become completely dominated by their interaction with media, and he would go write these wild kind of Science Fiction takes on it. But what I found was amazing and really resonant with his take on it was, these days everything from "The X-Files" and, if you read the New York Times, people being cloned and all that type of stuff, there’s a kind of remix of his aesthetic that happens in mass culture.
What I [also] found amazing was the placement of sound, it was always really important for evoking memory, the activation of memory through sound. In his stories you have people who are able to make sounds that affect reality. Brion Gyson was his mentor, and Gyson is one of my favorite artists. I like Gyson’s artwork, and he has his own sound recordings as well. I just like the fact that they viewed sound as a kind of Magical Theatre Play. He would talk about the sounds of needles, and stuff like that. I’m not actually a drug user like that, I’m talking about his metaphor.
ANO: He was a drug user, but he still used [his drug addiction as a metaphor], and a lot of people make the mistake of taking his work at face value.
SPOOKY: Right. Junk was his addiction, and we are definitely a society of addictions.
ANO: Later on, Burroughs actually went on record, saying that he was all for the turntable musician, and that these musicians were working with sound the same way in which he and Gyson were.
SPOOKY: Yeah, it’s the inheritor of his aesthetic, but it’s also incorporating him into technology in a way that you would never have the conventional literary people do.
ANO: I get pissed off that electronic music is always promoted as a futuristic sound, when to me it is more a statement on today’s society; much in the same way that Science Fiction comments on popular culture in a futuristic setting.
SPOOKY: Science Fiction is the literature of alienation. I’m really influenced by Phillip K. Dick, Samuel Delaney, and also a lot of the Cyberpunk guys, Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, William Gibson, Pat Cadigan. Another writer, Octavia Butler, uses genetic mutation as a metaphor for what’s going on in society, psychologically, emotionally, and economically. It’s all being determined by genetic type in her books.
ANO: One of my favorites is Greg Bear’s Blood Music. Just the whole concept of being the host mother for this intelligent virus that is the next step in evolution is wonderful.
SPOOKY: But it ends in total destruction...
ANO: But the idea is that there is a sacrifice of this civilization for the next step in future, the Age of the Intelligent Virus.
SPOOKY: In a lot of ways music, to me, becomes a sort of virus. It carries information. There’s a resonance between what Bear was talking about, with how the cells began to mutate rapidly, and, for me, samples and peoples memories begin to absorb and refract. How like what you heard as a child sort of becomes this embedded memory, and then you kind of slowly remix it out into your own creation as you go. The same with language, I mean Burroughs would always say that "language is a virus". I think sampling is it’s own language. For example, I’m looking at a small wall of records, that’s thousands of people right there, their compressed actions, emotions, thoughts all in the space of four feet, that’s it - it’s right there. I think that a great motto for it comes from the movie "Videodrome" : "Long Live the New Flesh" .
ANO: Are you influenced by J. G. Ballard at all? There’s a great new book out called Bad Girls and Sick Boys that links writers like Ballard with modern performance artists like Bob Flanagan and Orlan. The author, Linda Kauffman sees these artists as the living embodiment of Ballard’s work.
SPOOKY: Yeah. "Sex X Technology = The Future", that’s Ballard’s motto in Crash. Yeah, a lot of that revolves around sadomasochism, and technology. I feel it. When your sitting in front of a computer screen for hours and hours and hours, what the relationship is, you’re transferring your own energy into this machine. You’re numb and blind to your own desires. If you look at that as an abstraction, it’s actually pretty psychotic in a way.
ANO: Yeah, Bob Flanagen had it all down. He thought that S&M kept him alive. He found that inducing a small amount of pain, pain that was in his control, helped overcome the pain he felt due to his cystic fibrosis. He could be in control of his own pain.
SPOOKY: On another level, were all in pain at all times. That’s what a junkie feels when they withdraw. In a natural state of being, you would curl up in pain and agony ...there’s certain chemicals, neutrotransmiters. What happens when you withdraw from junk, is your body stops producing chemicals that keep the pain that you feel. I mean, even if you creak your arm just a little bit, that would be massive pain if there weren’t these neurotransmitter dampers. To me, I can recognize that the body is in physical pain at all levels, at all times. To me, a lot of the cyberpunk, and Flanagan are like... look at what happened in American culture, you want to talk about pain, and the structure of racism, and the psychotic situation of living with your own language stripped away from you - being shipped... that’s the original Generation X. To me, what my Generation is doing in America is creating their own remix of American Culture, and I think that’s healthy. There might be some unhealthy side effects, but just like you’re saying that Flanagan wanted to control trajectory and expression, that’s what music does, that’s what’s happening with youth culture. I think we’re just a Generation of Amnesia, I mean no one really knows what went on, even 20 years ago. That’s amazing! The media has a lot to do with that. People would rather watch MTV, get a new pair of Nikes...
ANO: That’s the great thing about sampling, especially in the hip hop world. The sample actually does bring kids into the record store looking for a Bob James album, or a John Coltrane album. People actually seek it out, and it gives them a taste of history, and makes them interested in finding out about the history.
SPOOKY: Yeah, to me sampling is, is essence, like psychological time travel. You take the resonance of what was going on at a different time period, and reach back. That’s what I mean, the Burroughs connection. The same thing with Octavia Butler, sampling has all this resonance with two areas, no three. One is genetic engineering, where you splice, and take DNA samples. That’s the obvious reference. The other one’s are architecture and code writing. The rhythms become their own code structure. To me sample, or when people are dancing, they’re adjusting their bodies to these psychological pulses in the music, but you can sit down and dance in your head just the same.
A lot of my albums are about reflect the environment. New York sends different signals to you at all times. The new album is more like what I call virtual theater. The other ones, the rhythms their selves were the theatre. A lot of people were like "Oh, there are no vocals on the album", I was like "Yeah, the beats speak for themselves".
To me, djing is a digital exorcism for me. I been collecting records for years. It all has a resonance with the entire culture, when something travels that quickly. It’s pretty intense when you get down to it. I travel a lot, I’ve djed in Venezuela, and the kids... it’s consolidated at a very rapid rate, like most industrial, electronicized cultures. It’s truly Global... the dress codes are very similar, the styles of dancing, everything has been streamlined. There’s definably been a massive psychological remix going on.
ANO: Do you ever plan on working in a visual art medium. I’d love to see you do Installation Art.
SPOOKY: I already have. I was in last year’s Whitney Biennial. I created a musical map of Mexico City’s Zona Rosa. I translated it into the viral strata. Mexico City stands at the crossroads between North and South America, and it has this economy of people processing old objects and copies of thing. They’ll sell you a real, or fake Aztec statue made out of plastic. It shows that the New World is just an extension of the imaginations of the people who got there first.
I also had a show called "The Death and Life of a Phonograph", and that was about, again, sampling as psychological and individual remixology. I made a maze that was made of different resonances of rooms. My piece was a series of completely artificial room chambers that I ran different beats through and different musical fragments through. The music would take on the resonance of the different rooms. "Sounds of Beat and Cathedral", "Sound of Hallway". I made a virtual room out of all these different resonances."words are like one piece of air that comes out of your mouth" and as soon as thing are described they "slip through you hands like so much water". Conversing with Mr. Miller was a journey of many tacks and tangents, ultimately leading to that center - the proverbial "Zona Rosa", where our collective unconscious drives us towards creation and recreation. He refers to the mixtape as an "electromagnetic canvas", and likens the electronic music scene with Ishmael Reed. His mind may travel at 57K sometimes, but with the proper software installed, his program is definitely worth checking out!
originally published in (Sic) Vice & Verse by Dafydd McKaharay
www.alphabeats.com