DJ Shadow

19 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Bill Brewster, Rock's Backpages audio, 8 July 2005
The erstwhile Josh Davis talks about how his world was changed by hip hop; how, in search of breaks, he became an obsessive collector; the ins-and-outs of sampling, and tells tales from the world of crate digging.
File format: mp3; file size: 61.1mb, interview length: 1h 06' 41" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Trip Hop: Where The Beats Have No Name
Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, July 1995
Trip-hop is now part of pop's international language — but the pioneers of Britain's most successful musical export in years refuse to admit it exists... ...
Report by Bethan Cole, Mixmag, August 1995
One year ago we coined the term 'trip hop' for a new, instrumental school of stoned hip hop rhythms and psychedelic wizardry. Since then, the ...
Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, February 1996
Being head of exploding hip-prog record label Mo'Wax is nothing to sneeze at. ...
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing... (Mo'Wax 13tks/64mins)
Review by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 14 September 1996
Tricks of the Shade ...
Profile and Interview by Bethan Cole, i-D, October 1996
What happens when you remove all the boundaries? DJ Shadow's debut album, Entroducing, is a record without frontiers. ...
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing... (Mo'Wax)
Review by Push, Muzik, October 1996
STUTTERED BEATS, fluttered beats. Scratching harder and faster than the caretaker's cat at the local fleapit. Pianos which tease and prick, b-lines which cajole and ...
DJ Shadow: The Penumbra of the Beast
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 26 October 1996
The way Portishead took dance into uncharted territories in 1994, the way Tricky took chances in 1995, so DJ SHADOW is pushing back the envelope ...
DJ Shadow: Oxford Brookes University
Live Review by 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 ...
Radiohead, DJ Shadow, Teenage Fanclub: International Arena, Cardiff
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 22 November 1997
TO DAI FOR! ...
DJ Shadow: Camel Bobsled Race (Q-Bert Mega Mix) (Mo'Wax/CD/Tape)
Review by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 6 December 1997
ALL THIS SCRATCHING'S MAKING ME BITCH! ...
Special Feature by Craig McLean, The Face, 1998
It spans eight years, three continents and an aborted Fleetwood Mac cover. It features Richard Ashcroft, Thom Yorke and Mike D. How did DJ Shadow ...
Basement Jaxx, Pet Shop Boys et al: Creamfields, Old Liverpool Airfield
Live Review by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 4 September 1999
THE SCOUSE THAT JAXX THRILLED ...
Six Machines That Changed The Music World
Guide by Pat Blashill, Wired, 5 January 2002
EVER SINCE Sam Phillips stuffed some wads of paper into an amplifier, inadvertently creating the fuzzed-up, overdriven electric guitar sound on Ike Turner's 1951 rave-up ...
To The Batcave: DJ Shadow's The Private Press
Review by RJ Smith, The Village Voice, 4 June 2002
OUT-OF-BODY Experience, heaven version: "I saw my life before my eyes, and that is no shit… I saw myself walking in and out of countless ...
DJ Shadow: King of the Vinyl Junkies
Report and Interview by Chris Campion, Daily Telegraph, 6 June 2002
DJ Shadow revolutionised hip hop with his first album and toured the world with Radiohead, but he is still regarded as a record-collecting nerd, he ...
Interview by Will Hermes, Spin, July 2002
NOW THAT MOBY AND FATBOY SLIM HAVE BECOME POP-CULTURE POSTER BOYS, IS IT TIME FOR HIP-HOP MONK JOSH DAVIS, A.K.A. DJ SHADOW, TO CLAIM HIS ...
Review by Nick Southall, Stylus, 1 September 2003
IN 1996 JOSH DAVIS RELEASED ...Endtroducing, an expansive, intricate and morose tapestry of samples that wove brass, pianos, filtersweeps and hip hop beats together, creating ...
DJ Shadow and David Banner: Two Worlds Collide
Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 4 November 2005
Regional rapper David Banner and turntable legend DJ Shadow make an unlikely pairing. Memphis plays a part. ...
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