DJ Spooky on Duchamp at Dallas Museum of Art

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Wiki stuff

The Roots, a.k.a. The Legendary Roots Crew, are an influential, Grammy Award-winning American hip hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, famed for a heavily jazzy sound and live instrumentation. They made their debut in 1993 and have gone on to collaborate with artists from a range of genres, such as Roy Ayers and Cody Chesnutt. Inspired by the “hip-hop band” concept pioneered by Stetsasonic, The Roots themselves have garnered critical acclaim and influenced later hip-hop and R&B acts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roots

DJ Spooky (born Paul D. Miller,1970), is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called “illbient” or “trip hop”. He is a turntablist and producer. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Spooky

A Tribe Called Quest

Q-Tip and Phife were childhood friends and had grown up together in St. Albans, Queens. The pair first met Muhammad in Murray Bergtraum High School. Initially, Q-Tip had been performing as a solo artist (MC Love Child), occasionally teaming up with Muhammad as a rapper/DJ duo. Although the pair frequently made demos with Phife (as Crush Connection), the sports enthusiast was still courting ambitions of playing professional basketball, and remained somewhat reluctant to become a full member of the group, only later relenting after Jarobi also joined, thus making the group a quartet. The group’s final name was coined in 1988 by the Jungle Brothers, who attended the same high school as Tribe[4]. Q-Tip made two separate appearances on the Jungle Brothers’ classic debut album, Straight Out the Jungle; the songs “Black Is Black” and “In Time”, respectively. Afrika Baby Bam of the group introduced Q-Tip to De La Soul when he took the aspiring artist along to a studio session for the recording of the remix for the group’s song “Buddy”. Produced by Prince Paul, the remix of “Buddy” was to be an all-round Native Tongue affair, and the eccentric producer encouraged Q-Tip to contribute to the now-classic record.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tribe_Called_Quest

instrumentalist, Reuel “Raz” Mesinai (born 1973 in Jerusalem and raised in New York City) composes innovative avantgarde electro acoustic music under his own name and is also well known for his hybrid Middle Eastern and Dub productions under the alter ego Badawi. Mesinai’s music is usually highly rhythmic with a particular keen sense of microtonal sound. Considered by some to be a “sound alchemist”, Mesinai began playing frame drum and piano at the age of seven and was highly influenced by shamanic and trance ritual music as a child by his single transient mother who raised him in the Buddhist, Jewish, Sufi, and Christian traditions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badawi_%28musician%29

Nice afterglow playlist.