On his newest album, "Riddim Warfare," freeform spinmaster DJ Spooky creates a constantly shifting sound collage of offbeat samples and segues that leap from the dub grooves of Lee Scratch Perry to the wiry guitar riffs of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore.

DJ Spooky decided to experiment more freely with vocals on "Riddim Warfare," and recruited rappers like Kool Keith, Sir Melanik and Wu-Tang Clan's Killah Priest to make some guest appearances.

Although he's a DJ, Spooky, a.k.a. Paul Williams, isn't the kind of guy who's content spinning traditional dance club tracks. MTV News recently asked Spooky if he ever worried about not being an easily danceable DJ.

[article id="1450852"]"Sampling is like a time machine,"[/article] Spooky said, [article id="1450852"]"you're always kind of going into different possibilities of how this beat could be here if you placed it here, and how that would come back and change that. So, it's like playing Lego

blocks with history, you know." [28.8 RealVideo][/article]

DJ Spooky, who claims to own about 20,000 vinyl albums, believes that the first video from the new record will be "Peace in Zaire," a clip he also hopes to direct.