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DJ Shadow: Oxford Brookes University

Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 8 November 1997

IT'S ASKING a lot, of course, to hope that tonight, amid a boozed-up, loudmouthed, zany shirt-wearing crowd of freshers, DJ Shadow will come close to matching the slow-burning majesty of his records. Because frankly he isn't prepared to grab anyone's attention by swinging brazenly across the stage on a rope, sporting a spangly jumpsuit and strobe-lit codpiece.

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