Last year, when actor-filmmaker Nate Parker dramatized Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt, he borrowed his movie's title from "The Birth of a Nation," D.W. Griffith's KKK-glorifying 1915 film. But Parker ...
Two years ago at an auditorium in Charleston, S.C., DJ Spooky screened “Rebirth of a Nation,” his musical remixing of D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation,” a 1915 silent film that’s notoriously ...
It is not entirely incorrect to think of DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of a Nation as a remix of D.W. Griffith’s incredibly racist silent film The Birth of a Nation. Indeed, Spooky, a NYC-based ...
We tried to tell you that Spooky's got riddims, but we guess you thought it was a joke. Today, we get to present to you his remix of Blacks' "Gassed," which accents Blacks hyperactive bars with a the ...
Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, is no stranger to the remix. A seminal turntablist merging avant-garde theories of musique concrète with advanced mixing techniques, Miller’s work has ...