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Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, (born January 1, 1973 in Hayward, CA) is a turntablist musician.

Biography

DJ Shadow spent his teenage years in Davis, California and was a DJ at the community radio station KDVS. During his time as a radio disc jockey, DJ Shadow was significant in developing the experimental instrumental hip hop style associated with the California-based Solesides record label. His early singles for the label, including In/Flux and Lost and Found (S.F.L.), were genre-bending works of art merging elements of funk, rock, hip-hop, ambient, jazz, soul, and used-bin found records. DJ Shadow is often cited as a leading creator of trip-hop, though this is a label he strongly contests.

Although he previously released a couple of original works (during 1991-1992 for Hollywood Records) by the time Mo' Wax's James Lavelle contacted him about releasing In/Flux on the fledgling imprint, it wasn't until his distribution association with Mo' Wax that his sound began to mature and cohere.

Shadow's first full-length work, Endtroducing....., was released in late 1996 to immense critical acclaim. Endtroducing made the Guinness World Records book for "First Completely Sampled Album" in 2001. Preemptive Strike, a compilation of early singles, followed in early 1998. Later that year, Shadow produced tracks for Psyence Fiction, the debut album by U.N.K.L.E., a long-time Mo' Wax production team that gained superstar guests including Thom Yorke (of Radiohead), Richard Ashcroft (of The Verve), Mike D (of the Beastie Boys) and others. His next project came in 1999, with the transformation of Solesides into a new label, Quannum Projects. Nearly six years after his debut production album, his second album, The Private Press, was released in June 2002. In the same year, the movie Scratch (2001, Doug Pray) was released to DVD with DJ Shadow appearing several times throughout the movie.

The documentary films Dark Days and Wisconsin Death Trip feature music from DJ Shadow.

DJ Shadow has also collaborated with fellow hip-hop DJ Cut Chemist. Together they have made two records entitled Brainfreeze and Product Placement. These albums fuse jazz, funk, and soul in the framework of a cohesive concept.

In the year 2004, Shadow released his feature length DVD, In Tune and On Time. The DVD features a live performance in London, emphasizing intricate visuals.

In 2005, Shadow released a Deluxe Edition of his first album, Endtroducing.... He is currently working on a new album, and plans to go on tour in the year 2006.

Also in 2005, Brian Udelhofen began work on the Shadow Percussion Project, an attempt to adapt some of the tracks from Endtroducing... for a live performance group. The result was largely successful and well-received by DJ Shadow himself.

He has also collaborated with several hip-hop artists, including Blackalicious and Zack de la Rocha.

The video for his song "Six Days" was directed by Wong Kar-Wai

Discography

Solo Albums

1996 - Endtroducing.....
1998 - Preemptive Strike
2002 - The Private Press
2003 - The Private Repress (Japanese Remix Album)
2004 - In Tune and On Time
2005 - Endtroducing..... (2xCD Deluxe Edition)

with Q-bert

1997 - Camel Bobsled Race (Q-Bert Mega Mix) CD-EP

with U.N.K.L.E.

1994 - The Time Has Come (Featured on answering phone vocals, no production)
1998 - Psyence Fiction

===with Cut Chemist===

1999 - Brainfreeze
2001 - Product Placement
2004 - Product Placement on Tour

with Dan The Automator

1998 - Bombay the Hard Way: Guns, Cars and Sitars

Mixes

2000 - Schoolhouse Funk
2002 - What I Do In My Bedroom (This has nothing to do with DJ Shadow)
2003 - What I Do In My Bedroom Vol. 3 (This has nothing to do with DJ Shadow)
2003 - Diminishing Returns
2005 - Schoolhouse Funk II
2005 - One Night in Bangkok (unofficial release)
2005 - Funky Skunk

Albums Featured

1993 - Sleeping with the Enemy (by Paris)
1995 - The Story Of Mo Wax (various artists, Lost And Found and What Does Your Soul Look Like? (1 & 2) by Shadow)
1996 - Dr. Octagonecologyst (by Dr. Octagon, Shadow featured on Waiting List (DJ Shadow / Automator Mix))
1999 - Quannum Spectrum (various artists, DJ Shadow on Divine Intervention and Storm Warning)
2000 - Solesides Greatest Bumps (various artists, Shadow contributes 3 tracks and produces 6 more)
2002 - The Ultimate Lessons (various artists bootleg, Shadow on Lesson 4, Live Lesson B, and Live Lesson C)
2004 - Brothers from the Mother (by Zimbabwe Legit, DJ Shadow's remix called Shadow's Legitimate Mix)
2005 - Same !@#$ Different Day (by Lyrics Born, produces Over You)
2005 - Hell's Winter (by Cage, produces Grand Ol' Party Crash with Jello Biafra
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2005- Beef or Chicken? (by Teriyaki Boyz produces the track Kamikaze 108).

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