DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, aka Paul D. Miller in professional settings, may be the biggest thinker in music today. Last year, I went to a One Pot dinner where he was the guest and it was a joy listening to him talk about the music industry and his ideas of copyright law and intellectual property. After that dinner, we all went over to Nectar, where DJ Spooky had a funky DJ set, playing lots of classic funk and soul and mixing it with more contemporary hip hop. I wrote of that night:

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I doubt this is an April Fool's joke so I'll put it out there, Bumbershoot announced the first list of acts to play this year. There are certainly some that I'm really excited to see (some again) and others I'll pass on.

I know there'll be a lot of people bitching about Katy Perry but remember that booking her sells tickets that pay for other acts and you can choose to do something else while she plays.

Here's the roster so far:

Sheryl Crow / Modest Mouse / Katy Perry / Michael Franti & Spearhead / De La Soul / Raphael Saadiq / Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan / The Long Winters / Sly & Robbie & the Taxi Gang / World Party / MSTRKRFT / Roy Ayers / Common Market / UH HUH HER / Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women / Eric Hutchinson / No Age / Matt & Kim / Dead Confederate / The Cave Singers / Swollen Members / Vieux Farka Touré / Lenka / Gang Gang Dance / Todd Snider / Holy F**k / DJ Spooky / Iglu & Hartly / Low vs Diamond / Sera Cahoone / Eleni Mandell / Carrie Rodriguez / The Honey Brothers / Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head / Extra Golden / Cordero / Forgive Durden / Hey Marseilles / Adrian Xavier, and much, much more to be announced.

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"Rebirth of a Nation" was released on Election Day and DJ Spooky is looking for people across the country to host a screening of his film.

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Encyclopedia broadside of future thought about the present, and prescient thoughts about the future of music and, um, the future.

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at Nectar

DJ Spooky, through two separate and unique events, showed his big ideas in both theory and practice.

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I got a book you need to read! I'm not selling it, but I'm recommending it.

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