Artist: DJ Shadow
Genre(s):
Electronic
Rap: Hip-Hop
Trip-Hop
Dance
R&B: Soul
Instrumental
Discography:
The Outsider
Year: 2006
Tracks: 17
One Night In Bangkok
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Funky Skunk
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Live!: In Tune and On Time
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
In Tune and On Time
Year: 2004
Tracks: 21
The Private Press
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Milk The Basic Breaks
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Dark Days (Single)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
At Kcrw Radio
Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
Private Press
Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Bombay The Hard Way : Guns, Cars, and Sitars
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Preemptive Strike
Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Midnight In A Perfect World
Year: 1996
Tracks: 5
Endtroducing
Year: 1996
Tracks: 13
Product Placement
Year:
Tracks: 2
Entroducing Deluxe Edition CD2
Year:
Tracks: 14
Entroducing Deluxe Edition CD1
Year:
Tracks: 13
DJ Shadow's Josh Davis is wide credited as a key figure in development the experimental subservient hip-hop style associated with the London-based Mo' Wax label. His early singles for the label, including "In/Flux" and "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)," were all-over-the-map mini-masterpieces combining elements of blue funk, rock, hip-hop, ambient, nothingness, soul, and used-bin incidentalia. Although he'd already done a scattering of original and yield work out (during 1991-1992 for Hollywood Records) by the time Mo' Wax's James Lavelle contacted him around cathartic "In/Flux" on the starter depression, it wasn't until his association with Mo' Wax that his good began to get on and cohere. Mo' Wax released a longer shape in 1995 -- the 40-minute individual in four-spot movements "What Does Your Soul Look Like," which topped the British indie charts -- and Davis went on to co-write, remix, and produce tracks for labelmates DJ Krush and Dr. Octagon asset the Mo' trip-hop supergroup UNKLE.
Davis grew up in Hayward, CA, a predominantly lower-middle-class suburbia of San Francisco. The odd white suburban rap music fan in the hard rock-dominated early '80s, Davis gravitated toward the turntable/mixer apparatus of the hip-hop DJ over the guitars, bass, and drums of his peers. He worked his way through hip-hop's early age into the heyday of crews like Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MC's, and Public Enemy, groups that prominently featured DJs in their ranks. Davis had already been lilliputian about with qualification beatniks and breaks on a four-track spell he was in high schoolhouse, only it was his move to the NorCal cow town of Davis to serve university that light-emitting diode to the establishment of his possess Solesides label as an sales outlet for his original tracks. Hooking up with Davis' few b-boys (including eventual Solesides artists Blackalicious and Lyrics Born) through the college tuner station, Shadow began cathartic the Reconstructed from the Ground Up mixtapes in 1991 and pressed his 17-minute hip-hop symphony "Entropy" in 1993. His tracks bedspread wide through the DJ-strong hip-hop underground, finally catching the attention of Mo' Wax. Shadow's first full-length, Endtroducing..., was released in late 1996 to vast decisive spat in Britain and America. Preemptive Strike, a compilation of early singles, followed in early 1998.
Later that year, Shadow produced tracks for the debut album by UNKLE, a longtime Mo' Wax production team that gained superstar guests including Thom Yorke (of Radiohead), Richard Ashcroft (of the Verve), Mike D (of the Beastie Boys), and others. His following project came in 1999, with the transformation of Solesides into a raw tag, Quannum Projects. Nearly sixer long time after his debut production album, the right followup, The Private Press, was released in June 2002. The following year Shadow released a conflate album, Diminishing Returns, and in 2004 he released a alive album and DVD, Alive! In Tune and on Time. In 2006 his long-awaited one-third solo album, The Outsider, came out, just instead of following the pattern he put-upon on his past deuce records, Shadow enlisted avail from Bay Area rappers like Keak da Sneak, E-40, and Lateef, as well as David Banner and Q-Tip.
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