Trojan Us
2006
DJ Spooky Presents: In Fine Style - 50,000 Volts Of Trojan Records
About This Album
Putting his name on the cover might strongly suggest it, but no, DJ Spooky isn't mixing these tracks. He's a selector -- or in proper Jamaican, "selecta" -- and the tracks on 50,000 Volts of Trojan Records fadeout untouched and unbothered by someone who can twist music like few others when he's inspired. Fans might find this a letdown since the man who defined illbient hasn't floored them with a production album in a while, and a jaw-dropping Trojan mix like Madlib's Blunted in the Bomb Shelter Mix would serve him well. Course, it is what it is and taken as that it's great, thanks in no small part to Spooky's enlightening liner notes. They are part history lesson, part enthusiasm booster with a dash of that Spooky talk that ties together technology and humanity (Spooky on Jamaica: "You can think of the whole culture as a shareware update, a software source for the rest of the world to upload."). Without the liner notes, 50,000 Volts is a pleasurable mix of tunes that unearths some of the seminal reggae label's hidden gems with a heavy emphasis on DJs -- as in the Jamaican sense of the word, not a turntable mixer but a Jamaican rapper -- and oddball cuts that shamelessly bend the rules.
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