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reviews 267 The Mountain Will Fall. DJ Shadow. 2016. m ass Appeal r ecords. Twenty years ago, Josh Davis, the turntable auteur better known as DJ Shadow, released his first studio album on the independent label mo’ Wax r ecordings. Widely acclaimed as a work that both explored and transcended the borders of musical genre, Endtroducing embodied DJ Shadow’s philosophy that hip-hop is not a sound but an attitude and process. “The way I make music,” he remarked, “is rooted in the hip- hop paradigm and the hip- hop way of thinking, which is: take what’s around you, and subvert it into something that is 100- percent you.” Davis’s music emerges from this process of transmutation. Always understanding himself as a DJ first, Shadow’s work is inseparable from his love affair with record collecting and boasts a scholar ’s dedication to music history. Fueled by his voracious appetite for found sounds and the physical practice of finding rare records known as “digging in the crates,” Endtroducing inaugurated Davis’s reputation as a collector and tinkerer. An alchemist of sound, DJ Shadow used an Akai mPC60 12- bit sampling machine, a turntable, and a borrowed ProTools rig to collage the myriad
American Music – University of Illinois Press
Published: Jul 31, 2018
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