DJ Shadow's New Album

Neil3030

/me forgets what the title is for the moment.

Heard reports that it is "the deej's" best work to date.

Anyone heard any of it yet?

Neil3030

Just to update - It's called Private Press (i think)

tibor

got it last week. it's pretty good. very varied sound ranging from nice laid back hiphop grooves to squarepusherisms. don't think it's as good as endtroducing though.

Makaveli

I dont think anything will be as good as Endtroducing.
The Private Press it's called 18 tracks in total I think with 4 of them being interludes.

Kali

got it there earlier today off mr. tibor above..

from the one and a half listens ive given it so far it ranges from what youd expect of shadow (sampling and deep beats, "walkie talkie") to bloody great long dancy numbers ("you cant go home again") to squarepusher/aphex twin style randomnoise/cuts ("monosylabik") to jazzy flanger/poets of rythym numbers ("the 6 day war")..

and imo in each of the ranges except for the former there are already better acts.. anyway...

much less samples than endtroducing, one or two iffy tracks, but overall quite a good collection of tracks.. and ill probably listen to it a few more times (after i get through listening to the rest of the stuff i got recently..)

Makaveli

In all the reviews by fans that I read that was the one complaint that seemed to be present in them all, that he tried to do things with this album that have already been done by other people and that they have done much better jobs at it than him. I'm kinda getting the feeling that he should have stuck to hip-hop more so than trying to make it an eclectic album.
Having only heard 3 tracks and one of them being an interlude I'm not gonna comment on it yet.
The song that has a video for it now, I dunno what it's called, it sounds a lot like High Noon to me. Maybe I just to have a proper listen to it but the beats seem similar.
Anyway if you disregard Endtroducing when reviewing this album it seems to be very well liked.
I love Product Placement and Brainfreeze, I wonder if he would ever try a studio album like these.
So from what you have heard is it better than Preemptive Strike?

sugar tortoise

havn't heard it yet, but am looking forward to hearing it (so maybe this post is pointless...) but did hear him in an interveiw say he was trying to move move away from endtroducing with the new album, don't know how true this is, but I'd say it still will be a good listen...

Lex_Diamonds

I like it, it obviously doesn't compare to Entroducing but it's nice none the less.

I have to say though, I really, really liked Pre-emptive Strike. I'd put it up there with Entroducing. Anyone else feel the same?

Makaveli

Not really I thought Endtroducing was a lot better. It had the feel of a more complete album. If you stuck extended overhaul onto it instead of the original organ donor I think Endtroducing might have been possibly one of the greatest albums of all time.
Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul) is probably my favourite shadow song.
Then again I havent listened to pre-emptive strike in a good while now, maybe I should give it a whirl.:)

Cheez

Yea id put pre emptive strike up there with endro too,its trippier i think.Heard the new song and saw the video,imho the video is **** but the song is quite good but sounds more electro which is fine but no real definitive sound as loads of artists use the same electronicy sounds which isnt very good but the music is cool

Totally off topic,get the philip glasss orcestration of icct hedral by aphex twin, if ur familiar witht the original song its far better with real instruments

TommyUnderwear

I saw the new Shadow video and Jesus, it really is a departure from his normal style. Even all his mixes with James Lavelle had his own signature, but this is way out Leftfield. Very very dancy if you ask me. It's gonna take some getting used to, but I am sure I can manage. Any idea of the official release date by the way?

Kali

dont worry too much.. as i said above theres only one or two tracks like that on the album

release date is 21/05.

Makaveli

Originally posted by Lorax
Ahhhhh how can you post about shadow's new album in the 'dance/electronic' section !! it's an insult to his work

Well it is kind of electronic.

Neil3030

I don't see a Hip-hop/downbeat/breakbeat/triphop/turntablism section here, Lorax. Do you?

Cheez

hehe neil3030 more power to ya

Kopf

His best work yet? You're the first person i've heard to say that.. there's a general consensus out there that "entroducing...." is his best and he's gotten gradually worse over the years. the stuff is still great, just not as good.

Although, I still have to give private press a good listening.

Lawnkiller

bought the special edition copy yesterday and gave it a spin.

its good, entroducing had a certain "non-digital" feel to it (which i liked). not so with this album (not a bad thing tho - as such). i would liken it to Coldcut's "Let Us Play". u can see influences from all other projects he worked with since entro (eg. UNKLE, handsome boy, quannum, etc.)

the second live CD kicks ass. pity its only one track.

all in all, value for money from young Mr. Davis but possibly not all round album of the year (a d@nm fine album all the same).

Kali

Originally posted by Lawnkiller
all in all, value for money from young Mr. Davis but possibly not all round album of the year (a d@nm fine album all the same).

nah thats Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
although Mum, BOC and Cinematic Orchestra's respective 2002 releases are all pretty equally worthy of a look-in..

socialretard

Originally posted by Makaveli
I love Product Placement and Brainfreeze, I wonder if he would ever try a studio album like these.

never gunna happen, because it would costs millions to put out commercially (due to the fact they are playing a crapload of songs they don't have the rights to). both those albums are bootlegs and were only meant to be sold at the cut chemist/shadow shows they played in the states, but funnily enough ended up on ebay, and now the likes of hmv, which could get the both of them in alot of trouble.

socialretard

Originally posted by Kali


nah thats Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow

eh, not a fan. they try a little too hard. check out people under the stairs if you're into the san francisco hip hop underground.

RasTa

shadow is the king
he has yet to release a rubbish album,the man himself is real cool aswell.. layed back
anyway private press i likes alot
seen him doing it live in london last month
best gig so far just for pure brillance
with the hiphop gigs sum mc's cant rap live guru for example
and with sum dj's they just play hiphop you've heard b4
but shadow as a dj does his own music
and thats why i love him so much
hes coming in august im 80% sure
dont miss it!

Jackoman

Got the album last week, havent had the chance to sit down and really listen to it, but from what I heard so far it sounds like he has put to together some great tunes yet again!! Shadow is class!!!

klong

both those albums are bootlegs and were only meant to be sold at the cut chemist/shadow shows they played in the states, but funnily enough ended up on ebay, and now the likes of hmv, which could get the both of them in alot of trouble.

does this mean that dj shadows new album is available in hmv?

what price is it?

socialretard

yeah, i've seen it in hmv and tower. don't know how much it is though

RasTa

brainfreeze and product placement aint bootlegs
u could just get them at the concerts first than they went onto general release
sum of them have numbers of them and there the orginal ones
b4 they came out in the shops ppl were payin 50-60 dollars on e-bay for them

Makaveli

They pressed 600 official copies of Brainfreeze and 1200 of Product Placement IIRC.
Repli has an original of Brainfreeze. Oh the envy.

klong

Took the safe option and bought Entroducing.
Quite excellent I must say

Jimi-Spandex

/me is a big Shadow fan

Well, Private Press is a bloody excellent album, obviously not quite endtroducing standard, but it is the bst album i've heard this year, i haven't heard the blackalicious album yet.

Any way, back to Pre-Emptive Strike, there were only two tracks from that on Endtroducing, plus the remix of Organ Donor, (the two tracks being What does your soul look like? part 1 and part 4)
The best track on Preemptive strike imo is What does your soul look like? part 2,

Has anyone actually seen the live in Austin cd in the shops, i've been meaning to order it from hmv.co.uk

RasTa

yea i seen it when i was in london,not over here yet
have it on mp3 tis excellent