I discovered Shadow when I heard his music on Spinner back when the Endtroducing album came out. He's like a musical collage creator. Take pieces and sound and patches them together coming up with some pretty incredible soundscapes. I haven't heard this new album "The Private Press" yet but i'm looking forward to it. Heres the Rolling Stone review....

ROB SHEFFIELD
(RS 898 - June 20, 2002)

Line up for "Attack of the Clones" if you want -- for a totally different breed of science-fiction geek, the long-awaited follow-up of the summer belongs to DJ Shadow. Shadow, otherwise known as California beatmaster and vinyl fetishist Josh Davis, became one of the leading lights of DJ culture with a string of head-spinning singles in the Nineties, weaving more obscure rare-groove samples than any lawyer could trace into an expansive new style of headphone funk. He defined the tripping, hopping Mo' Wax sound, so much so that by the time he got around to releasing his debut album, Endtroducing. . .DJ Shadow, in 1996, it already sounded not just familiar but inevitable. A classic the day it was released, Endtroducing . . . still holds up, especially in the cinematic crawl of tracks such as "Midnight in a Perfect World" and "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt." All slow-motion tension and release, Shadow's grooves evoked a late night in the heart of the city, with your body poised right on the edge of utter fatigue.
A hard act to follow, and so maybe it's no wonder that DJ Shadow has taken six years to produce the follow-up. The Private Press is a moody, murky album, by definition not as groundbreaking or epochal as Endtroducing . . . but fascinating enough in its own right. Even though The Private Press is Shadow's first official solo album since 1996, he hasn't exactly been PlayStationing the years away. In 1998, he masterminded the ill-fated U.N.K.L.E. project Psyence Fiction, a botched attempt at an all-star supergroup with guest vocalists including Radiohead's Thom Yorke and the Beastie Boys' Mike D. He also scored the film Dark Days and made some of his most entertaining music ever with DJ-producer Cut Chemist, especially last year's Product Placement, which kicked off with a sample from Oscar the Grouch.

So after all these years, The Private Press is neither a sequel nor a continuation. As the title implies, there's nothing remotely pop about it, either. Shadow programs a fifty-seven-minute pastiche of beats, sound effects, machine hums, found voices and mock-symphonic patterns of robot noise, shifting from texture to texture almost casually. The first thing you hear is a scratchy home recording from 1951, as a bleary-sounding female announcer declares, "Tonight, we got together, kept the kids up and decided to have a little fun making this record." It's an apt introduction to The Private Press, an album full of playful experiments.

As on Endtroducing . . . , the best tracks are the ones that take their time digging into a groove, letting the momentum build. "Fixed Income" and ". . . Meets His Maker" set the tone with loping bass and spaghetti-western guitars. "Monosylabik" slices up a distorted reggae beat with industrial-level feedback blurts. Since Radiohead freely admit how much they've been influenced by DJ Shadow, it's only right that "Giving Up the Ghost" should sound like primo Radiohead, with nerve-rattling string-plucking and a lonesome violin howling. The fantastic seven-minute "You Can't Go Home Again" sounds like New Order playing ska, a complex percussive groove against rockafeller-skank guitar and a backdrop of strings nicked from a movie that's just out of reach of your memory. "GDMFSOB" mixes it up with samples ranging from "Disco Duck" to Mr. Spock.

The announcer from the introduction also declares, "There's so many things I could say, but I just can't get them together." There's definitely too much of that going on in The Private Press -- it's weird how an instrumental-minded guy like Shadow gets tripped up by his corny taste in human voices. "Walkie Talkie" and "Right Thing" are ruined by faux rapping, the attempted soul ballad "Six Days" is just painful, and the most beautiful track here, the nine-minute "Blood on the Motorway," goes bad halfway through when a gospel voice comes in to emote. ("You have not betrayed your ideals/Your ideals betrayed you" -- okaaay!) On the weak vocal tracks, Shadow sounds too heavily influenced by Moby's Play, ironically one of the many albums heavily influenced by Endtroducing . . . . The one vocal that works is "Mashin' on the Motorway," a funny showcase for underground rapper Lateef. But a few failures are the price DJ Shadow pays for experimenting, and even the excesses on The Private Press are worth a spin or two, if only for their welcome humane touch, their love of bric-a-brac and sound for its own sake. In a time when the music world is going through a real-life attack of the clones, DJ Shadow remains a valuable phantom menace.

my wife works for one of the largest financial planning firms in NJ and she deals with TD Waterhouse all the time.

they often times give her company tickets to practically any major event that happens at MSG and the continental airlines arena.

she called me yesterday afternoon and informed me that we were going to the game. i was like "oh, ok, great".

as it turns out it was kinda cool. plus, i guess it was nice to see a jersey team winning.

i know nothing about basketball and i have a question.....
what is the margin that a team needs to make to advance in the NBA playoffs?



Edited By LZMF1 on May 30 2002 at 3:32

With the Red Sox's lead in the division down to 1.5 games, this weekend's series promises to either secure their spot in first, or allow the Yanks to finally move into first place.

Yankee Stadium is always an interesting place to be when the Sox are in town...anyone going? I'll be there tomorrow night (and finally see my Boomer pitch), and Sunday...

I say the Yanks take 2 games of the series.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

The show fuckin rocked!!!

It was hot as shit in the club though. My first time there.
They had no opening act, and played for like an hour straight. Then they left for like five minutes and came back and did a 3 song encore. Then left again, then came out for a 2 song encore. About 1:30 in all.

Dave Grohl is a mediocre drummer, but can play really heavy and hard. He can keep a good beat and added alot of energy to the show. I think he's a better guitar player.



I am horrible with remembering setlists, but they did play...

Monsters in the Parasol
Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
Regular John
I Think I Lost My Headache
Mexicola
Millionaire
You Would Know
Tension Head
The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret

OK, I forgot what else. See, I'm terrible with these things. BAH!
The show seriously rocked though.



PS - I think I may have found a ticket for tonights show too. :-D



Edited By Maynard on May 30 2002 at 1:03

Last night in the middle of a movie, my ps2 decided to not read discs "silver" discs anymore. It will read a purple disc (madden 2k1 for example) but no silver bottomed disc like a dvd or other game. Anyone ever run into this problem? does anyone know what can be done to fix it? do i need to contact them? any help is greatly appreciated...and no, getting an xbox is not an option right now...

i was sitting in my living room looking at the computer when all of a sudden i got a big head rush. i went to stand up and couldnt feel or move my left arm. i finally picked it up with my other arm and went so say "what the fuck" but it came out all slurred. after about 1 minute i got the feeling back in my arm and side of my face. went straight to the hospital and had a cat scan. that came out normal.i passed all of the neurological tests, so they sent me home. i thought i had a stroke, but they said no. i have an MRI/MRA today at 4:00. my doctors prevailing theory as of now is that it wa some sort of neurological migraine. whatever it was, it was the most terrifying day of my life!! just thought i would share.

I'm having a Philly Cheese steak Hot Pocket for breakfast with some orange juice. I'll probably have the meatball Hot Pocket for lunch with a root beer. Chicken and broccoli sounds promising for dinner. This can't be healthy.



Edited By IrishAlkey on May 30 2002 at 08:32

In this thread, if it rymes it has to be the truth.

There is a member named Ken
Who's interest is only in men
He PMed a Maymay
and professed he was gay
And now they fuck in the den.

And Maynard is my Joseph Goebbels.

That is all.

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