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Shuffle Culture at BAM: Questlove recruits Deerhoof, Sasha Grey, an orchestra & more

April 20, 2012

Questlove's Invitation to Enlightenment

The Roots' drummer Questlove, art-rock band Deerhoof, former porn star Sasha Grey, DJ Jeremy Ellis and the Metropolis Ensemble orchestra explored the concept of iPod-era "Shuffle Culture" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 20, 2012. Rev. Vince Anderson on the megaphone.  

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Questlove Presides Over His Eclectic Art Circus

Positioned above his selection of performers, Ahmir Khalib Thompson provided sporadic percussion accompaniment for the orchestra, the DJ set, two competing beat-boxers and Sash Grey's dance freakout. 

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Deerhoof's Experimental Rock Gets Strung Out

San Francisco's whimsical noise rock quartet Deerhoof backed by the strings of the Metropolis Ensemble. 

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Reggie Watts: One Man Shuffle Culture

Combining looped samples, hip hop, outsider comedy and an incredible Afro, Reggie Watts is a post-modern hurricane. 

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Metropolis Ensemble

Providing orchestral accompaniment for Questo's drumming, Jeremy Ellis' DJ sets and Deerhoof's art-rock, Metropolis Ensemble lived up to the lesson of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis.': "The mediator between head and hands must be the heart!" 

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Deerhoof's Satomi Matsuzaki

Floating in clouds of origami. 

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Paper Fortune Tellers Litter the Stage

 

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Composer/DJ Jeremy Ellis

Sampling and slicing up everything from Funkadelic to opera, Jeremy Ellis' crushingly loud soundscapes separated performances from musicians with instruments.  

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Fingers Of Light from On High

 

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Every Day He's Shufflin'

Questlove remained silent and imperturbable throughout the evening, occasionally nodding his head along with the music of his strings, beats and guitar licks of his Shuffle Culture. Except, of course, when he'd spring to life on the drums. 

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Sasha Grey Poetry Slam

Sasha Grey: Now with clothes. 

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Genre Conductivity

Classical electronic hip hop: A peek into Questlove's brain. 

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Afro Pick Meditation

 

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