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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.
 
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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** The I Gotta Rokk and I'm Excited EPs are showing The Less You Know, The Better to be more of a rock album.
** Really, all of them have a different sound from the others. Endtroducing has a dirtier, hip-hop sound, The Private Press is cleaner and more experimental, The Outsider has the aforementioned collaborations and The Less You Know, The Better is more of a rock album.
* [[One -Woman Wail]] - Man, he loves using this.
* [[Punny Name]] - ''Endtroducing'', "Organ Donor" (an organ-based track.)
* [[Sampling]] + [[Sampled Up]]
* [[Self -Deprecation]] - The artwork for the "[http://www.djshadow.com/store/detail/73296 I Gotta Rokk]" single features various digital gadgets making snide remarks about Shadow and his relevancy in modern music. Lately these same characters have been popping up on different pages of his website committing acts of vandalism, such as [http://i54.tinypic.com/wqsubl.png drawing a moustache on his photo], [http://i54.tinypic.com/25tg70h.png ripping the page apart] or apparently [http://i52.tinypic.com/ojf30j.png throwing out his entire discography]. This seems to be a commentary on the public's opinion of him since ''The Outsider'', particularly in online message boards where it's particularly easy to go along with someone else's negative opinion. It seems likely this will be a running theme during the ''Less You Know'' era.
* [[Spoken Word in Music]] - ''Parking'' tickets?...
* [[Stage Names]]
* [[Studio Chatter]]
* [[Subdued Section]]
* [[Take That]] - One of the short songs on his first album is called "Why [[Hip Hop]] Sucks In '96". The song itself consists of 45 seconds of a laid-back Dr. Dre type beat, as was popular in 1996, then has a quick sample of someone (namely Shadow's friend and occasional collaborator Lyrics Born) saying "[[Money, Dear Boy|It's the money!]]".
* [[Textless Album Cover]] - ''Endtroducing.....'''
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]] - He has a song with that title, natch. [[Soundtrack Dissonance|Surprisingly upbeat, tho']].
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