2016 has been a stellar year for experimental hip hop luminary DJ Shadow, aka Josh Davis, with the release of his critically acclaimed studio album The Mountain Will Fall – his first release in five ...

After rock music colonised charts on a global scale throughout the 1960s, genre classification became increasingly loose. Traditional descriptors such as jazz, folk, and the blues are still used to ...

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DJ Shadow has long been revered as one of the pioneers of crate digger-driven instrumental beat music, but populating his upcoming album Action Adventure almost exclusively with vocal-free songs was ...

Known as the godfather of instrumental hip-hop, DJ Shadow (real name Josh Davis) has proven himself with groundbreaking, genre-defining solo output on such respected labels as Solesides and Mo' Wax.

Released in 1996, the instrumental album, Endtroducing… by DJ Shadow is considered today to be one of the greatest hip-hop albums and one of the greatest displays of DJing, sampling, and producing.

‘People said: “Nobody’s going to listen to instrumental trip-hop.” But I was thinking of huge soundscapes, like the ones by Pink Floyd or Beethoven’ By 1991, sampling had entered a golden era with De ...

Join Classic Album Sundays founder Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy (or a guest CAS Host) for our monthly Album Club hosted on Zoom. If you haven’t joined us before, it’s like a book club, for albums!! We are ...

DJ Shadow‘s groundbreaking 1996 album Endtroducing just turned 25 last week, and to celebrate he’s releasing a new vinyl edition this Friday (9/24) via Mercury Records. The reissue features totally ...

25 years ago today (9/16/96), DJ Shadow released his debut LP Endtroducing. Like the record store cover image implies, this groundbreaking at the time album was composed almost entirely of samples ...

The remastered edition of Shadow’s debut album – which was first released on September 16, 1996 – will arrive on September 24 along with a new 7″ featuring Cut Chemist’s remix of ‘The Number Song’.