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| Pitchfork |
 DJ Shadow has been skirting predictability for a good long while. The Outsider might have been a critical and fanbase fiasco, but at least it proved he was trying to engage with the greater hip-hop world and make something that didn't fit the precedent of Endtroducing.... (And we got a pretty damn good E-40 track out of it.) Shadow could be excused for testing his limits, for reacting to the sounds currently reverberating through the instrumental hip-hop arena he helped build. And it's tempting to speculate what his next move might be. He could be ricocheting off recent psychedelic L.A. bass music, or trying to see how his beat-building/breakdown technique could spar against UK funky rhythms, or maybe just stripping things back to the point of minimalism. The fact that he's calling his upcoming album The Less You Know, the Better says something about his M.O., at least.Then again, the I Gotta Rokk EP contains a few singles drawn from that album, and they suggest a new direction more along the lines of what people expected from him 10 years ago. Any of the three original tracks on this EP would've fit well stylistically as follow-ups to the prog-skewing aspirations of The Private Press, representing a gradual evolution from his sample-virtuoso approach. As they stand in 2011, these songs are a bit of a mixed bag, flirting with sounds that could qualify as trendy or forward-thinking in bass music without jumping into the thick of it. It's not so much the scattershot styles that register as strange; if there's anywhere hard rock, psych-folk, and electro-glitch all share a root context, it's in the scrapyard assemblage of an ecclectic cratedigger like Shadow. It's more of a structural disconnect, where it's possible to hear what he's reaching for but harder to grasp just how he plans to get there. The title track lurches around in a stoner-rock plod, as a creeping armada of metal guitars eventually bleeds through its slow build to a manic false-ending. The hesher trappings are novel enough, but its drums are uniquely Shadow's: clipped yet heavy-sounding snares, hi-hats, and claps that sound culled from a dozen long-buried sources, but which coalesce into a dense vortex of percussion....full text |
| Mxdwn |
| DJ Shadow has been hard at work on The Less You Know the Better, but fans can get a taste of the direction the musician is heading by checking out I Gotta Rokk, the new EP from DJ Shadow. It is available digitally on his website now and physical copies will be shipping June 1st. The full track list of the EP and information of DJ Shadow’s upcoming tour are below. DJ Shadow will be touring Europe this summer and also have a stop at the Pitchfork music festival....full text |
| Elbo |
| DJ Shadow is in da place, hell yeah, he's back ! Et quel retour ! Après un The Outsider sorti en 2006 qui restait très honorable pour Shadow , il a tout d'abord marqué son retour avec deux morceaux disponible en téléchargement libre pendant 24h courant septembre 2010 histoire de crée le buzz autour de son retour tant attendu. Nous avons maintenant en face de nous un réel maxi composé de six titres dont trois originaux qui seront présents sur l'album The Less You Know The Better . Album qui d'ailleurs...full text |
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