DJ Spooky, DJ Krush, Amon Tobin, Madlib, Aesop Rock, Blockhead, Kid Koala, DJ Logic, Dan the Automator, Dr. Israel and the Brooklyn Soundsystem, RJD2, Hi-Tek, Mark Farina, Venetian Snares, DJ Shadow, El-P, Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Gyorgy Ligeti, DJ Premiere, Goldie, Mixmaster Mike, King Tubby, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Bjork, Squarepusher, Jah Shaka, Yoshio Machida, DJ Grazzhoppa, DJ Wally, Oval, Portishead, Olivier Messiaen, Duke Ellington, DJ Qbert, Erik M, Heiner Goebbels, Ornette Coleman, X-ecutioners, Nobukazu Takemura, Jonathan Harvey, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Param Vir, Ken Ueno, Du Yun, Morton Feldman, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, R. Murrary Schafer
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Layered textures fusing hip-hop, dub, and drum&bass rhythms with an orchestral and cross-cultural sound pallete. These pieces interweave samples from original compositions (for classical instrumentation) with found objects from any point in recorded audio history, seeking out resonant relationships between diverse sources. Taking inspiration from many areas of musical experience which have been kept segregated by our conditioning, this music aims to participate in the work of breaking down the walls that keep people from listening to each other.
A renegade Doctor of Music from Harvard University, DJ Dubble8 (a.k.a. Erik Spangler) is a composer and turntablist whose hybrid soundscapes thrive on a unique blend of experimental and popular influences. Samples from old vinyl records, programmed drum patterns, newly composed acoustic layers, and synthetic sound elements are all subject to live time-bending through digital turntable manipulation. Dubble8’s acoustic compositions have been performed across the United States and Canada, by ensembles including the Atlantic Brass Quintet, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, International Contemporary Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, and the yesaroun’ duo. He has performed his own music in solo DJ sets across the United States, at venues ranging from clubs and galleries to university concert halls.
Recent production projects include soundtracks for several short films by Joe Zohar (Moving Box Studios, Ithaca, NY)-- "Chalk Outlines" (2006) and "Repentance" (2005); a collection of tracks for experimental/trip-hop singer Du Yun, leading to an album to be released by Tag Team Records; "OY" featured on rising underground hip-hop artist S.K.I.P.'s album "What They Never Told You" (2006); a composition for bassoon and electronics, "a firefly in the belly" (2006), commissioned by Dana Jessen (New England Conservatory of Music); solo albums "Tompkins County Organic: homegrown beats, vol. I" (2005) and "Fourth World Nyabinghi"(2006).
A committed teacher, Dubble8 has served on the faculty of institutions ranging from Ithaca College to Oasis Middle School (Cape Coral, FL). He currently teaches music at Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences (charter high school in Baltimore, MD).
Thank you a lot, it's my second surprise of the day to read this comment! It surprises me and it's pleasant to see that some people actually like it! We (this track was made with someone else!!)do it ourselves, I'm tempted to say, he does it himself because I don't know how to play anything for the moment. I just give him some ideas and he does the things!).
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