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2023 - Action Adventure
2019 - Our Pathetic Age
2016 - The Mountain Will Fall
2016 - Nobody Speak
2012 - Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow
2011 - The Less You Know, the Better
2008 - The Hard Sell
2006 - The Outsider
2003 - The Private Repress
2002 - The Private Press
2002 - One to Grow On
2000 - Dark Days
2000 - Schoolhouse Funk
1999 - Brainfreeze
1998 - Preemptive Strike
1996 - Endtroducing.....
view 2023 - Action Adventure 2019 - Our Pathetic Age 2016 - The Mountain Will Fall 2016 - Nobody Speak 2012 - Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow 2011 - The Less You Know, the Better 2008 - The Hard Sell 2006 - The Outsider 2003 - The Private Repress 2002 - The Private Press 2002 - One to Grow On 2000 - Dark Days 2000 - Schoolhouse Funk 1999 - Brainfreeze 1998 - Preemptive Strike 1996 - Endtroducing.....Members
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Origin
California, US
Genre
Hip-Hop
Style
Urban/R&B
Mood
Quirky
Born
1 MaleOrigin
California, USGenre
Hip-HopStyle
Urban/R&BMood
QuirkyBorn
1972
Active
1991 to Present...
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DJ Shadow - Organ Donor4 users
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DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World4 users
DJ Shadow - Building Steam With a Grain of Salt
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Artist Biography
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Joshua Paul "Josh" Davis (born June 29, 1972) better known by his stage name DJ Shadow, is an American music producer and DJ. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album Endtroducing....., which was the first album to be recorded using only sampled sounds. He has an exceptionally large personal record collection, with over 60,000 records. He is the cousin of singer and guitarist Richie Kotzen.
Shadow's first full-length work, Endtroducing....., was released in late 1996 to critical acclaim. Endtroducing would go on to make the Guinness World Records book for "First Completely Sampled Album" in 2001. The only pieces of equipment Shadow used to produce the album were the AKAI MPC60 12-bit sampling drum machine, a pair of turntables and a borrowed-by-visiting Pro Tools setup from an early adopter of the technology, Dan "The Automator" Nakamura.
Nearly six years after his debut production album, his second album, The Private Press, was released in June 2002.
The Outsider album was released on 18 September 2006. The Outsider, which prominently featured several artists from the local San Francisco Bay Area hyphy hip hop movement, got a mixed welcome among Shadow's fans. Responding to criticisms, the DJ/producer explained on his blog why he made no apologies: "Repeat Endtroducing over and over again? That was never, ever in the game plan. Fuck that. So I think it's time for certain fans to decide if they are fans of the album, or the artist."
DJ Shadow has also collaborated with fellow DJ Cut Chemist. Together they have created three popular mixtapes entitled Brainfreeze, Product Placement, and the recent The Hard Sell. These mixes fuse jazz, funk, and soul in the framework of a cohesive concept. He has also collaborated with several other artists, including Blackalicious, Zack de la Rocha, Keak Da Sneak, Mos Def, David Banner, and Dr. Octagon, an alter ego of Kool Keith.
The Less You Know, the Better, the fourth studio album was released on September 27, 2011 by Verve Records. The album was his first of original material since The Outsider. Like Shadow's previous efforts, the album relies heavily on sampling; the samples used span many genres and time periods. The album sees Shadow exploring many genres and production styles, from fast-paced tracks prominently featuring guitars and scratching to slow tracks featuring pianos.
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