A shadowy chemical mix

I’ve been pretty ridiculously clear about my devotion to DJ Shadow. (Missed it? See here or here, for example.) I also like Cut Chemist and love his track “Swing Set” off Jurassic 5′s Quality Control album (He also performed with the band Ozomatli). These two DJ greats have collaborated on Brainfreeze and Product Placement, two [...]

Heavens to megatroid…

Speaking of Shadow, as we have this week, Diplo of Hollertronix did a great 42-minute mix last year which uses a number of songs from DJ Shadow along with anything else he could think of. Diplo has described this as being one of his “artsy-fartsy” mixes. The dude likes him some Southern hip-hop, whether it’s [...]

The White Shadow

Holy crap. This is amazing and — I can assure you — will be investigated further when I have time. A high school band plays two tracks off of DJ Shadow‘s Endtroducing album (via Witz.org). The two songs are “Building Steam with a Grain of Salt” and “Changeling for Percussion Quintet.” The performances are from [...]