N.A.S.A.
Spiegel worked with Brazilian DJ Zegon under the name N.A.S.A. (North America/South America). Their debut album, The Spirit of Apollo, includes Kanye West, Karen O and Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lykke Li, John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, George Clinton, David Byrne, M.I.A., RZA, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, and Ol' Dirty Bastard of Wu-Tang Clan. Such collaborations earned Spiegel the title "Hot Star Magnet" on Rolling Stone's annual "Hot List" in 2008. The album was "a conscious effort by NASA to show how people can be brought together by music and art."
The Spirit of Apollo took over five years to create, and some songs required N.A.S.A. to wait up to three years for collaborators' schedules to match. It was finally released on February 17, 2009, and received generally favorable reviews. N.A.S.A.'s music also appears in the video game DJ Hero, in a mash-up with Daft Punk's Da Funk.
Read more about this topic: Sam Spiegel (musician)
Famous quotes containing the word nasa:
“If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of NASA to make one.”
—H. Ross Perot (b. 1930)