DJ Spooky's new project "The Secret Song" isn't really an album: it's a manifesto about the place of history in our modern collaged, scrambled, sampla-delic to the core, mega info overloaded digital culture. With references stretching from Thorstein Veblens "Theory of the Leisure Class" and John Maynard Keynes classic in the 'eld of economics "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" over to hip hop's relationship to psychoanalysis and a la Edward Bernay's concept of the "manufacture of consent" - DJ Spooky's new album is a groundbreaking meditation on hip hop and electronic music relationship to philosophy, economics, and the science of sound in a world where the steady drumbeat of the 'nancial meltdown has made music the last refuge of young people with less and less time and money. DJ Spooky's peer group of artists like DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, RJD2, DJ Logic, Amon Tobin, and Coldcut have all played with the idea of concept albums. With "The Secret Song" DJ Spooky looks to bands like Nine Inch Nails, and Radiohead for inspiration. As DJ Spooky likes to say "people - it's ALL about economics." Dig'

Tracklist:

Intro - The War of Ideas
5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO
Multiphonic - (featuring Rob Swift)
Dazed and Confused - (take)
Measure by Measure
Secret Song, The
Myxomatosis
Where I'm At - (featuring Zimbabwe Legit)
Autre, L'
Heliocentric
Azadi (The New Complexity)
Composite Refraction Drum Solo
Pax Per Fidem
Iaco's Lament - (featuring Vijay Iyer)
Know Unkowns - (featuring Thurston Moore)
Salt Satyagraha
Point-Counterpoint
No Quarter Dub - (take)
Cognitiva
Duality (Drum and Bass Duo in D Flat Minor)
Bonus Material

UPC: 700435719125
Label: Thirsty Ear
Release Date: 10.6.09
Format: CD

CMD - The Secret Song (2 CD)