Waking from a restless dream, even after the longest sleep, one finds himself distraught, tired, and most of all, puzzled. Although your movement might have been limited to a 1-or-2-inch roll, your restless mind has been engulfed in a state of thought ...more
PopMatters
Private Pressure: DJ Shadow Makes the Personal Public Talk about spreading yourself thin. First, you release a landmark track, "In/Flux", that more or less inspires countless beat junkies and critics to claim you invented trip-hop. Then, you follow it ...more
PopMatters
DJ Shadow crept into the public consciousness in 1996 with his debut album Endtroducing . By that point he had already issued a dozen or more singles, but with his first album he hit the mainstream running. Suddenly, people outside of DJ culture were ...more
Yahoo! Music
However long he'd waited to follow up his breathtaking 1996 debut, the cut-and-paste symphony Endtroducing , DJ Shadow faced a daunting task. And his sophomore outing, The Private Press , tries to make the best of it. The most successful tracks will ...more
Yahoo! Music
Five years on from his breakout Endtroducing..., hip-hop's reigning recluse showed he still had plenty of tricks up his sleeve -- as well as many more rare grooves left for sampling. Shadow had kept a low recording profile during past years, putting out ...more
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Yahoo! Music
Five years on from his breakout Endtroducing..., hip-hop's reigning recluse showed he still had plenty of tricks up his sleeve -- as well as many more rare grooves left for sampling. DJ Shadow had kept a low recording profile during past years, putting ...more
Yahoo! Music
Five years on from his breakout Endtroducing..., hip-hop's reigning recluse showed he still had plenty of tricks up his sleeve -- as well as many more rare grooves left for sampling. DJ Shadow had kept a low recording profile during past years, putting ...more
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