To commemorate the thirtieth entry into the Blue Series catalogue, DJ Spooky has cooked up a very special new album. With the entire Blue Series spread out before him, Spooky has expertly sorted, sifted, chopped and recombined this vast amount of music into a shining new work that teases out the lines between jazz and hip-hop, and then obliterates those lines.
The result is Celestial Mechanix: The Blue Series MasterMix," a no-holds-barred re-envisioning of some of the most visionary jazz of the 21st Century.
From the subtly funky drumming of Hamid Drake to the unshakeable bass lines of William Parker, the intense lyricism of Matthew Shipp
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