# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dj-spooky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:41:27.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dj-spooky"
name: "DJ Spooky"
slug: "dj-spooky"
description: "Paul Dennis Miller, known professionally as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is an American electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics \"illbient\" or \"trip hop\". He is a turntablist, record producer, philosopher, and author. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs. Having studied philosophy and French literature at Bowdoin College, he has become a professor of Music Mediated Art at the European Graduate School and is the executive editor of Origin magazine."
tagline: "American DJ and music producer (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Spooky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1970-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.35
  momentum:             0.453514739229025
  historical:           8.599717333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819377/"
    handle:    "nm0819377"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://djspooky.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3214"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "دينيس ميلر (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Spooky"
    title: "DJ Spooky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Spooky"
    title: "DJ Spooky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Spooky"
    title: "DJ Spooky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Spooky"
    title: "DJ Spooky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Spooky"
    title: "DJ Spooky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Spooky"
    title: "DJ Spooky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c8dbbadb-f5f1-449c-8827-43d00a73fe89"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707084"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130163"
    title: "DJ Spooky"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump