Endtroducing...

Eliot Wilder

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What resonated about Endtroducing... when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted territory that seems to exist both in and out of time. Josh Davis is not only a master sampler and turntablist supreme, he is also a serious archeologist with a world-thirsty passion (what Cut Chemist refers to as Josh's spidey sense) for seeking out, uncovering and then ripping apart the discarded graces of some other generation that pile of broken dreams and weaving them back together into a tapestry of chronic bleakness and beauty. Over the course of several long conversations with Josh Davis (DJ Shadow), we learn about his early years in California, the friends and mentors who helped him along the way, his relationship with Mo'Wax and James Lavelle, and the genesis and creation of his widely acknowledged masterpiece, Endtroducing....

Author
Eliot Wilder
Edition published
August 19, 2005
Publication year
2005
My rating
4/5
Goodreads rating
3.61/5 from 556 ratings and 48 reviews
Publisher
Continuum
Edition
Paperback · 112 pages
Language
English
Genres
Music, Nonfiction, Hip Hop, The United States Of America, Biography
ISBN
9780826416827
Added
May 27, 2014
Times read
1
Owned copies
0
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