The San Francisco Gate covers DJ Spooky’s performance alongside the Oakland symphony. It sounds like a rare treat and really places the turntable with DJ into a new realm of performance.
Whatever the audience made of the piece — the response was a hearty kind of bemusement — “Devolution” confirmed that the turntable has been reinvented as a bona fide musical instrument, and that the worlds of classical and futuristic pop are not, in fact, mutually exclusive.
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