DJ Shadow Announces Additional US DJ Dates in Support Of:
Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow
and
Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow
Released September 25th on Universal Music Enterprises
“DJ Shadow is a sort of sonic Merlin: He's known and revered for his buoyant beats, hypnotic loops and dark textural expanses, but he leads listeners to places where a nightlight, and even sunlight, can be glimpsed.”
—NPR
“What this timely 'Best Of' proves is how considered his work has been, and how it's subtly redirected his destinctive identity into new areas… Two CDs, beautifully curated, making 'Reconstructed' the definitive DJ Shadow experience.”
—DJ Times
“The true measure of Shadow is the moody brilliance he has been able to conjure from his unlimited palatte.”
—The Mail on Sunday
“His soulful, dense, addictive and slamming instrumental hip-hop brought together rap heads, metal kids, indie fans and dance music lovers…Put simply, a genius at work.”
—Mixmag
“In 1996, he rewrote the rules of music. That's worth celebrating.”
—The Sunday Times
“Sounding like nothing before, [Entroducing…] showed there were few limits to the music that could be made by one man and his record collection. Since then, David has continued to innovate…”
—The Observer
December US DJ Dates:
| 12/06/12 12/07/12 12/08/12 12/09/12 12/11/12 12/13/12 12/14/12 12/15/12 |
Madison, WI Chicago, IL Detroit, MI Boston, MA Brooklyn, NY New Orleans, LA Miami, FL Atlanta, GA |
Majestic Theater The Mid Majestic Theater Royal Nightclub Brooklyn Bowl Basic & Republic Mansion Opera |
DJ Shadow, who is rightly regarded as one of the most influential and consistently innovative artists to emerge from music in the last 20 years, released four collections of his finest recordings on September 25, 2012 via UMe. DJ Shadow is known as an electronic musical pioneer and “turntable mastermind” (Pitchfork). Reconstructed: The Best Of DJ Shadow was released on one single CD and double vinyl, while Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow was issued as a multi-disc box set. Limited to 500 copies worldwide, each set is individually signed by DJ Shadow and includes 8 discs, 1 x 12” vinyl record, as well as a booklet, featuring an essay by acclaimed music writer Dave Tompkins, and numerous photos, some exclusive, by long time Shadow collaborator B+. With stunning artwork and design by Trevor Jackson, the box set is the most ambitious and comprehensive retrospective ever assembled to represent Shadow’s output. “It’s never an easy task to sum up a career in one release,” says Shadow, “but this box comes pretty close. This is the definitive, final document of the sound I’m most known for.” The box is available exclusively from DJShadow.com.
All the music across the three formats is drawn from Shadow’s 20-year career - from the early pre-Mo Wax days, right up to the present and his most recent album, The Less You Know, The Better. Perhaps most exciting to Shadow fans is the inclusion of two brand new tracks, including the pop masterpiece Listen, featuring legendary vocalist Terry Reid.
Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, changed the game in 1996 with the release of his universally acclaimed debut album Endtroducing… Made entirely from samples, Endtroducing…was like nothing that had come before. As the New York Times stated, “the critically acclaimed ‘Endtroducing’… helped define the then cutting-edge genre of instrumental hip-hop: dance music with symphonic sweep built from scores of samples dug out of eclectic and often obscure recordings.” And TIME Magazine named it as one of 100 top albums since 1954. Sixteen years on and it remains as potent and revered an album as it was on release. Shadow followed up two years later by making the lion's share of the music on the 1998 U.N.K.L.E. album, Psyence Fiction, an album with James Lavelle, featuring Thom Yorke, Ian Brown and Richard Ashcroft amongst others. By the time he released The Private Press, 2002, Davis felt he had taken emotive instrumental music created entirely from samples—as far as it could go and the new record took Shadow into new territories confounding those who were waiting on Endtroducing… Part 2. The Private Press remains one of the most underrated follow-up albums. The Outsider (2006) saw DJ Shadow making a hip-hop record featuring some of leading exponents of the Bay Area’s then burgeoning Hyphy scene while last year’s The Less You Know, the Better, was, according to according to Stool Pigeon magazine, “a testament to his enduring sampling genius.”
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