Fin 1996, Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow sort son premier album intitulé Endtroducing, sur le label Mo'Wax .. . Il reçoit un accueil particulièrement enthousiaste de la critique et du public. Tout le disque est composé à partir de sampling, ce qui est une première, et lui vaut une place dans le Livre Guinness des records. Midnight in a perfect world est pour moi une pièce maîtresse de ce LP culte (à posséder d'urgence, si ce n'est pas déjà le cas) et la vidéo est aussi fantastique que [...]
Okay, since we've flipped to a new calendar year, it's time for a new beginning here, as related to one of my many anal Virgo rules for the blog, which was to not post on the same artist twice unless one of them was in a DJ mix. I hate when blogs keep posting on the same artist over and over. You know what I'm talking about... those blogs where every time any member of, say, Animal Collective farts into a tape recorder, they feel the need to make sure you know about it. I like to [...]
"Midnight in a perfect world" - DJ Shadow
I think for every music enthusiast, there comes a defining moment in your life where you really discover music. During the mid-90's, amidst the experimental phase of MTV (or how I refer to it, the only time MTV mattered), that moment came in the form of the music video program Amp . The series ran from 1996-2001 - though it hit its peak in 1998 before it fell apart when it was later called Amp 2.0 - and showcased electronica to the mainstream. The show would come on every [...]