Biography

Active from the early 1990s into the 21st century, DJ Shadow (Californian Josh Davis) has been called the Jimi Hendrix of sampling. His songs shift tempos in a blink, incorporating multiple time signatures, and it's to Shadow's credit that he's as comfortable hinting at Elvin Jones's or Dave Grohl's rhythmic attack as he is at citing old faithfuls like Clyde Stubblefield. Ethereal horns, ambient keyboards, orchestral strings, vocoder vocals, whole film scenes--each is made a part of his sweeping focus, part of a grand postmodern design.

Top Tracks

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• [untitled Track]

• 3 Freaks

• Back To Front (circular Logic)

• Broken Levee Blues

• Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt

• Fixed Income

• High Noon

• In/flux

• I've Been Trying

• Mashin' On The Motorway

• Midnight In A Perfect World

• Purple Grapes

• Six Days

• Stem/long Stem/transmission 2

• Turf Dancing

• War Is Hell

• What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1

• What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4

Discography

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• The Less You Know, The Better

  Island / Verve

  2011

• The Outsider

  Island

  2006

• Endtroducing...

  Mo Wax

  1996