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DJ Shadow Information
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'Josh Davis', aka 'DJ Shadow', (born January 1, 1973 in Hayward, CA) is a turntablist musician.
Biography
DJ Shadow spent his teenage years in Davis, California and was a DJ at the community radio station KDVS. During his time as a radio disc jockey, DJ Shadow was significant in developing the experimental instrumental hip hop style associated with the California-based Solesides record label. His early singles for the label, including In/Flux and Lost and Found (S.F.L.), were genre-bending works of art merging elements of funk, rock, hip-hop, ambient, jazz, soul, and used-bin found records. DJ Shadow is often cited as a leading creator of trip-hop, though this is a label he strongly contests.
Although he previously released a couple of original works (during 1991-1992 for Hollywood Records) by the time Mo' Wax's James Lavelle contacted him about releasing In/Flux on the fledgling imprint, it wasn't until his distribution association with Mo' Wax that his sound began to mature and cohere.
Shadow's first full-length work, Endtroducing....., was released in late 1996 to immense critical acclaim. Following the success of this album, he acted as a shadow producer for Rage Against The Machine for their album, Evil Empire. It is said he influenced the solo on their song "Bulls On Parade". Endtroducing made the Guinness World Records book for "First Completely Sampled Album" in 2001. Preemptive Strike, a compilation of early singles, followed in early 1998. Later that year, Shadow produced tracks for Psyence Fiction, the debut album by U.N.K.L.E., a long-time 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 next project came in 1999, with the transformation of Solesides into a new label, Quannum Projects. Nearly six years after his debut production album, his second album, The Private Press, was released in June 2002. In the same year, the movie Scratch (2001, Doug Pray) was released to DVD with DJ Shadow appearing several times throughout the movie.
The documentary films Dark Days and Wisconsin Death Trip feature music from DJ Shadow.
DJ Shadow has also collaborated with fellow hip-hop DJ Cut Chemist. Together they have made two CDs entitled Brainfreeze and Product Placement. These albums fuse jazz, funk, and soul in the framework of a cohesive concept.
In the year 2004, Shadow released his feature length DVD, In Tune and On Time. The DVD features a live performance in London, emphasizing intricate visuals.
In 2005, Shadow released a Deluxe Edition of his first album, Endtroducing.... He is currently working on a new album, and plans to go on tour in the year 2006.
Also in 2005, Brian Udelhofen began work on the Shadow Percussion Project, an attempt to adapt some of the tracks from Endtroducing... for a live performance group. The result was largely successful and well-received by DJ Shadow himself.
Discography
Solo Albums
*1996 - Endtroducing...
*1998 - Preemptive Strike
*2002 - The Private Press
*2003 - The Private Repress (Japanese Remix Album)
*2004 - In Tune and On Time
*2005 - Endtroducing... (2xCD Deluxe Edition)
with Q-bert
*1997 - Camel Bobsled Race (Q-Bert Mega Mix) CD-EP
with U.N.K.L.E.
*1998 - Psyence Fiction
with Cut Chemist
*1999 - Brainfreeze
*2001 - Product Placement
*2004 - Product Placement on Tour
with Dan The Automator
*1998 - Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars and Sitars
Mixes
*2000 - Schoolhouse Funk
*2002 - What I Do In My Bedroom
*2003 - What I Do In My Bedroom Vol. 3
*2003 - Diminishing Returns
*2005 - Schoolhouse Funk II
*2005 - One Night in Bangkok
*2005 - Funky Skunk
Albums Featured
*1993 - Sleeping with the Enemy (by Paris)
*1995 - The Story Of Mo Wax (various artists, Lost And Found and What Does Your Soul Look Like? (1 & 2) by Shadow)
*1996 - Dr. Octagonecologyst (by Dr. Octagon, Shadow featured on Waiting List (DJ Shadow / Automator Mix))
*1999 - Quannum Spectrum (various artists, DJ Shadow on Divine Intervention)
*2000 - Solesides Greatest Bumps (various artists, Shadow contributes 3 tracks and produces 6 more)
*2001 - Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo (various artists, sequel to Bombay the Hard Way)
*2002 - The Ultimate Lessons (various artists, Shadow on Lesson 4, Live Lesson B, and Live Lesson C)
*2003 - Blink-182 (by Blink-182, Shadow featured on The Fallen Interlude)
*2004 - Brothers from the Mother (by Zimbabwe Legit, DJ Shadow's remix called Shadow's Legitimate Mix)
*2005 - Hell's Winter (by Cage, featured on Grand Ol' Party Crash with Jello Biafra)
Singles
*1991 - Lifer's Group/DJ Shadow - The Real Deal (Shadow Remix)/Lesson 4
*1993 - Asia Born/DJ Shadow - Send Them/Count and Estimate (Dub)/Hip-Hop Reconstruction from the Ground Up
*1993 - In/Flux / Hindsight
*1994 - Lost & Found (S.F.L.) (Split 12" with DJ Krush - Kemuri)
*1995 - What Does Your Soul Look Like
*1996 - Fully Charged on Planet X / Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip-Hop (by Chief Xcel/DJ Shadow - Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip-Hop and Last Stop are Shadow tracks)
*1996 - Midnight in a Perfect World
*1996 - Stem
*1997 - High Noon CD/DVD
*2000 - Dark Days (Music from Dark Days Documentary Soundtrack)
*2002 - You Can't Go Home Again
*2002 - Six Days CD/DVD
*2003 - Mashin' on the Motorway / Walkie Talkie CD/DVD
*2003 - March of Death (with Zack de la Rocha)
*2004 - Would You Buy A War From This Man? 7" (Remix of Radiohead's The Gloaming)
*2005 - Keane - We Might As Well Be Strangers (DJ Shadow vs. Keane Mix)
*2005 - Same !@#$ Different Day CD/DVD (by Lyrics Born)
Live DVDs
*2000 - Freeze VHS/DVD
*2004 - Product Placement on Tour CD/DVD
*2004 - In Tune and On Time CD/DVD
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