DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Joshua Paul David says "DJ Shadow" is an American musician and producer born in 1972 in Hayward. Vinyl collector since the age of 12, he is still in high school when he made his first mixes, which make known a decade later thanks to Mo'Wax label. His then pioneering technique involves mixing of genres as diverse as funk, rock, jazz, ambient and hip hop, resulting in entirely new pieces using collages and superimpositions, scratching and additions to the beatbox Released in 1996, his Endtroducing album pushes this logic to its climax, exclusively composed of samples from other sources. 62 minutes of a inextricable and yet harmonious sound continuum, widely instrumental with the exception of few monologues encasing 13 sequences chained with care Four years, The Avalanches go renew the performance with a remarkable album he too, but that's to Joshua deserves the credit for the first time, worth it to be assimilated to the origins of trip hop, next to Massive Attack or Portishead.