This should definitely fit in the 'interesting' camp. His stuff is very cerebral/experimental* but still has beats and melodies for the most part. Sound Unbound was a book first ('Sound Unbound, a collection of writing about sound art, digital media, and contemporary composition with writings from Brian Eno, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck D, Steve Reich, Cory Doctorow, Saul Williams, Pierre Boulez, Mendi & Keith Obadike, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jaron Lanier, Moby, and many others, edited by DJ Spooky, came out on MIT Press early 2008.') and this is the accompanying CD.
He was basically turned loose on the output of the Sub Rosa label: 'Sub Rosa releases archival material related to twentieth-century avant-garde figures, such as Marcel Duchamp, William Burroughs, James Joyce, and Kurt Schwitters. They have also released material from a number of important electronic music composers (Luc Ferrari, Henri Pousseur, Tod Dockstader, Nam June Paik...), and traditional music from around the world (an anthology of Inuit work, Master Musicians of Joujouka, cantor Ben Baruch, Tibetan and Bhutanese music recorded by John Levy, etc.).'
*DJ Spooky has said that much of his work "deals with the notion of the encoded gesture or the encrypted psychology of how music affects the whole framework of what the essence of 'humaness' [sic] is... To me at this point in the 21st century, the notion of the encoded sound is far more of a dynamic thing, especially when you have these kinds of infodispersion systems running, so I'm fascinated with the unconscious at this point." (yes, he's a bit pretentious...)
(all quotes from wikipedia)
