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Yeah, Sublimidible. Bostonist has heard Dubya utter that word a thousand times in rerun clips in the past four years, in fact we're pretty sure it came up as a hip hop mix during the last election cycle. According to a Boston Globe report last week the election debacle of 2000 is what got DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid kicked into gear speaking out about politics and history. Paul Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky, remixed a film into a multimedia presentation "Rebirth of a Nation" that will be performed for the first time locally Friday at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The presentation has been performed around the country but DJ Spooky will perform the new work locally as part of Harvard’s Learning From Performers series. The performance will be followed by a discussion and question and answered session with real academic feel, moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chair of Harvard's Dept. of African and African American Studies. Get a preview of what’s in store Friday night at an event tonight at the Harvard Book Store at 6:30 p.m. Rhythm Science, Paul Miller’s book, has met some critical acclaim. The book speaks to mixing and the art form of the DJ. The pop culture favorite DJ anthology today seems to be the 36 Chambers, The RZA’s discusson of the Wu-Tang phenomenon. Rhythm Science was just released in paperback, with a CD, on March 1, 2005 (It came out hardcover last summer). Catch the DJ in Cambridge for two days of thinking hip hop not as a cultural phenomenon but as a method to splice old and new ideas into a newly creative work. more ›