‘The Dawn of Remix’ (2004) is a scratch video which re-edits footage from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) with audio sampled from the LL Cool J track “Can’t Live Without My Radio”. The original scene from

2001 documents the very first moment an ape understood how to put an object to an alternative use - he picks up a bone and realises that it can be wielded as a weapon. ‘The Dawn of Remix’ conflates this

momentous act of re-use with the evolution of audio remixing in hip-hop culture. Instead of a weapon, the bone becomes a drumstick and microphone, while other apes DJ and break-dance.

The Dawn of Remix (2004) Soda_Jerk with Sam Smith Digital Video Dur. 2 mins  (7.7 MB Quicktime) Quicktime 7 needed to view