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Much as Trojan Records did last fall, the folks at the Sub Rosa label have once again let Paul "DJ Spooky" Miller into their vaults for his follow-up to 2004's Rhythm Science mix and accompanying book. This time out, That Subliminal Kid is calling his premium pastiche Sound Unbound: Excerpts and Allegories From the Sub Rosa Audio Archives Vol. 2.

The set mixes recordings from Sub Rosa's vast audio archives-- from the likes of Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, William S. Burroughs, Marcel Duchamp, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Cocteau, and others-- with avant garde jazz, compositional music, and electronica courtesy of everyone from Aphex Twin to Steve Reich to Sun Ra.

Exhaustive in its scope and absolutely epic in its tracklisting, Sound Unbound arrived in CD format in North America today (May 13) via Sub Rosa. The mix will also accompany Miller's latest book, Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, which features an introduction by Reich and arrives May 31 thanks to the MIT Press.

Spooky has a number of appearances on the way, though only one is purely musical: his June 7 appearance at Birmingham, England's Zero1 Global Festival, where he'll perform his Terra Nova: The Antarctic Suite about the titular continent's changing landscape.

Sound Unbound:

01 Radio Mentale / Matthew Herbert: "Cool Noises"
02 Martyn Bates / Allen Ginsberg: "Once Loved" / "A Footnote to Howl " (DJ Spooky Remix)
03 Jean Cocteau: "Le Buste" (DJ Spooky Remix)
04 Sun Ra: "Imagination"
05 Mikhail / Gertrude Stein: "Untitled in CoF Minor" / "A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson" (DJ Spooky Remix)
06 DJ Spooky vs. Rob Swift: "Scratch Battle"
07 Marcel Duchamp / The Master Musicians of Joujouka: "The Creative Act" / "Boujeloud/Interview With George Heard Hamilton"
08 Raymond Scott: "The Paper Work Explosion"
09 Alter Echo / Pamela Z: "Perpetual Next" / "Pop Titles 'You'"
10 Liam Gillick / Aphex Twin: "Sarah - Los Angeles Soundtrack" / "I Could Never Make That Music Again"
11 James Joyce / Erik Satie: "Eolian Episode" / "Gnossiene" (DJ Spooky Dub Version)
12 Steve Reich: "Reed Phase"
13 Shukar Cika / Radio Mentale / Raoul Hausmann: "Laka" / "Cool Noisespt2" / "Bbb"
14 Augustos de Campos and Caetano Veloso / Bill Laswell / To Rococo Rot: "Dias Dias Dias" / "Above the Earth" / "Contacte"
15 John Cage: "Rozart Mix"
16 Antonin Artaud: "Pour Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu (To Have Done With God's Judgment)" (DJ Spooky Remix)
17 DJ Spooky: "One Laptop: Theme"
18 Sussan Deyhim: "The Spilled Cup" (DJ Spooky Remix)
19 Raymond Scott: "General Motor Futurama (Interstitial)"
20 Marcel Duchamp / George Lewis & Aki Takase: "Erratum Musical (Score for Three Voices)" / "Voyage for Three"
21 Bill Laswell / René Magritte: "Ghost Dub" / "Le Surréalisme et Les Questions"
22 Anthony Braxton & Evan Parker / Pauline Oliveros: "The First Set - Area 4 (solo)" / "A Little Noise in the System (Moog System)"
23 Bora Yoon: "//" (DJ Spooky Remix)
24 Pierre Schaeffer: "Cinq Études de Bruits: Étude Violette"
25 Daniel Bernard Roumain & Ryuichi Sakamoto: "The Need to Be"
26 Philip Glass: "Music in Fifths"
27 Edgard Varèse: "Poème Électronique"
28 Iannis Xenakis: "Concret PH"
29 Ryoji Ikeda: "One Minute"
30 Sonic Youth: "Audience" (DJ Spooky Remix)"
31 Alter Echo/Ge-te Do-pe: "Aftermath of Creations Dub" / "Dong Lim"
32 Terry Riley: "Dorian Reeds"
33 Luigi Russolo / DJ Spooky: "Corale" / "FTP > Bundle/Conduit 23"
34 Fanfare Savale / Vladimir Mayakovsky: "Rumba Lu Georgel" / "I Know the Power of Words"
35 Trilok Gurtu / Bill Laswell: "Pilgrim's Song" / "Kala"
36 Nam June Paik: "Hommage à John Cage"
37 Morton Subotnick: "Mandolin"
38 The Master Musicians of Joujouka / Boujeloud / Hans Arp: "Mali Mal Hal M'Halmaz / "Dada" / "Sprüche"
39 Sub Swara / Kurt Schwitters: "Koli Stance" / "Anna Blume"
40 Walter Ruttman / Ache Lhama: "Week End"
41 Raymond Scott: "Bendrix: Tomorrow People #1"
42 Martyn Bates: "I Can't Look for You" / "The Palaces of Gesar's Family" (DJ Spooky Remix)
43 Otto Luening and Wladimir Ussachevsky: "Incantation for Tape"
44 Carsten Nicolai: "Time ... dot3"
45 William S. Burroughs and Iggy Pop with Techno Animal: "The Western Land"