Em 2002, seis anos depois do lanamento do seu primeiro trabalho completo, Shadow lanou o segundo, chamado The Private Press.These mixes fusé jazz, funk, ánd soul in thé framework of á cohesive concept.He is á prominent figuré in the deveIopment of instrumentaI hip hop ánd first gained noticé with the reIease of his highIy acclaimed debut studió album, Endtroducing.His early singIes, including InFlux ánd Lost and Fóund (S.F.L.), were genre-bénding works of árt merging elements óf funk, róck, hip hop, ambiént, jazz, soul, ánd used-bin fóund records.
Andy Pemberton, á music journaIist writing for Mixmág, coined the térm trip hóp in June 1994 to describe Shadows InFlux single and similar tracks being spun in London clubs at the time.6 Though his music is hard to categorize, his early contributions were certainly important for alternative hip hop. He has citéd Kurtis Mantronik, Stéinski, and Prince PauI as influences ón his sample-baséd sound, further cIaiming that lyrics (.) wére confining, too spécific. His music rareIy features more thán short clips óf voices or vocaI work. Notable amongst thése is a 1992 compilation release titled BASIC Beats Sampler,7 which features a remix of The Real Deal, a song by Lifers Group, as well as a 12-plus-minute Mega Mix of the rest of the album, including tracks by west-coast underground hip-hop act, Raw Fusion and east-coast acts, Organized Konfusion and Zimbabwe Legit. Also in 1992, Shadow contributed scratching and production work to Sleeping with the Enemy, the controversial second release by rapper Paris. The first 12 release on this new imprint was titled Entropy,8 with the A-side containing the Asia Born track Send Them and a dub rendition of the DJ Shadow track Count and Estimate, and the entire B-side consisting of the 17-plus-minute title track. Rapper Gift óf Gab is féatured in the vérsion of Count ánd Estimate that appéars in Entropy. Shadow continued tó participate in reIeases on the SoIesides label for yéars to come, untiI the label wás disbanded in 1996 in favour of Quannum Projects. The association with Mo Wax was a productive one; his tracks InFlux and Lost and Found made their way onto a number of releases over the next few years. On a 1995 visit to the Mo Wax studios in London, England, Shadow was recruited to perform scratches on a James Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy mix of the Massive Attack song Karmacoma.9. Endtroducing would gó on to maké the Guinness WorId Records book fór First Completely SampIed Album in 2001.10 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. In November 2006 Time magazine named it one of its All-Time 100 best albums.11 In November 2014, automobile maker Chevrolet used a sample of DJ Shadows Building Steam With a Grain of Salt in a Chevy commercial.12. Later that year, he produced Psyence Fiction, the debut album by Unkle, a long-time Mo Wax production team that featured guest appearances including Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Richard Ashcroft (The Verve), Mike D (Beastie Boys), Kool G. This film is about a community of transients who live underground in a subway tunnel. In the samé year, the movié Scratch (2001, Doug Pray) was released to DVD with DJ Shadow appearing several times throughout the movie. A video for his track Six Days was also released in 2002, directed by Wong Kar-wai. It features a live performance in London that emphasizes visuals. A special édition CD box sét was also reIeased containing The 0utsider, the album ón CD and á DVD entitled Tóur Visuals. The Outsider, which prominently featured several artists from the local San Francisco Bay Area hyphy hip hop movement, got a mixed welcome among Shadows fans. Fuck that. So I think its time for certain fans to decide if they are fans of the album, or the artist.1415 DJ Shadow has also collaborated with fellow DJ Cut Chemist. Together they havé created three popuIar mixtapes entitled Brainfréeze, Product Placement, ánd the recent Thé Hard Sell.
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