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[[File:djs.jpg|frame|DJ Shadow, seen here with his trademark [[Kubrick Stare]] and
Josh "DJ Shadow" Davis is an American producer, DJ and songwriter, known for his extremely well-done [[Sampling|sampling-based sound]] and massive record collection with over 60.000 [[
Davis began his career as a DJ for his university's campus radio station. His first two singles under the "DJ Shadow" moniker, "In/Flux" and "Lost and Found", were released in 1993-1994. They are considered the [[Trope Codifier]] for the genre of trip-hop, which had been [[Trope Maker|already invented by Massive Attack]] in 1991. The songs were generally [[Epic Rocking|long and complex]], made up entirely out of samples and [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|fused together funk- and hip-hop-derived beats and occasional rock guitars with an ambient-jazz atmosphere]], plus the occasional oddball sample of [[Spoken Word in Music]]. These singles attracted the attention of the British experimental hip-hop label Mo' Wax, with whom Shadow signed a contract shortly afterwards.
Shadow's first release for the label, ''Endtroducing.....'', was composed entirely using an Akai MPC60 sampler, a pair of turntables and the aforementioned massive collection of LPs. Besides making the Guiness World Record as the first completely sample-based album, the album only refined the style he had established on his earlier singles, employing expert sampling from more varied sources either known ([[Beastie Boys]], [[
After ''Endtroducing.....'', he laid low for a while, releasing the singles compilation ''Preemptive Strike'' and producing [[UNKLE]]'s debut album ''Psyence Fiction''. He also lent several of his tracks to ''Dark Days'', a documentary about people who live in an abandoned section of the New York subway. A new album by DJ Shadow finally appeared six years after the first, titled ''The Private Press''. ''Press'' saw him slightly reduce his sampling due to increasing sampling fees, focusing mostly on unknown sources and didn't have any more [[Nightmare Fuel]] material, but otherwise continued with the cinematic trip-hop style he was famous for. While not as well-reviewed as ''Endtroducing'' since that was a [[Tough Act to Follow]], ''Press'' still won acclaim from fans and critics.
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A shorter hiatus ensued this time, smoothed over by the release of the live album/DVD ''In Tune and on Time'' in 2004. A new album emerged in 2006 named ''The Outsider''. This album retreated a bit from his prog-hop sound, featuring more collaborations with rappers and a few hyphy tracks. It received predictably mixed reviews with lots of [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]].
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* ''Endtroducing.....'' (1996)
* ''Preemptive Strike'' (1998) - compilation of early singles.
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* [[Drives Like Crazy]] - "Mashin' on the Motorway"
* [[Epic Rocking]] - "Stem/Long Stem", "Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain", ''Brainfreeze'' and ''Product Placement'' (both of which contain exactly two songs), "Blood on the Motorway", "You Can't Go Home Again".
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* [[Punny Name]] - ''Endtroducing'', "Organ Donor" (an organ-based track.)
* [[Sampling]] + [[Sampled Up]]
* [[Self-Deprecation]] - The artwork for the "[
* [[Spoken Word in Music]] - ''Parking'' tickets?...
* [[Stage Names]]
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