Say the name DJ Shadow to any hiphop head who came of age in the 1990s, and they’ll stop what they’re doing to recall a favorite track. For some, it’s “Organ Donor,” the methodical-yet-spastic ...

The pioneering producer explains why he switched up his sample-heavy workflow in favour of soft synths and Ableton Live ...

In the fall of 1996, DJ Shadow blew minds around the world using materials he found in a dusty Sacramento basement. Four years later, the Avalanches did much the same from their headquarters in ...

In 1996, California's DJ Shadow released an album that shifted the musical landscape and took the art of sampling to a whole new dimension. It was made almost entirely of sampled music and sounds, and ...

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.

Turntablist DJ Shadow (Californian Josh Davis) dropped his revolutionary debut, “Endtroducing …,” in 1996, altering the sonic landscape of pop music with an instant masterpiece of audio collage.

In 1996, California's DJ Shadow released an album that shifted the musical landscape and took the art of sampling to a whole new dimension. It was the first record to be made almost entirely of ...

‘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 ...

Composed almost entirely of vinyl samples, DJ Shadow's 1996 debut album Endtroducing..... is considered an incredibly influential hip-hop record. It turns 30 this year, and the DJ and producer is ...

Fifteen years after his debut record, Endtroducing, reformulated the sonic contours of hip-hop and pop, DJ Shadow has returned to let you know that The Less You Know, the Better. "It’s very difficult ...