DJ Shadow
DJ Shadow is a pioneer of instrumental hip-hop, turntablism, trip-hop, and sampling. In his work, he uses a large sound bank and personal collection of more than 60,000 recordings. The Time magazine ranked his album Endtroducing among the 100 greatest albums of all times and Pitchfork placed on the seventh place in the ranking of 100 greatest albums of the 90s. The album has also a recording in the Guinness Book of Records as the first completely sampled album. On 6th July 2015, he began work on the fifth solo album; it will be released 24th June this year. Two weeks later, he will introduce it, along with other compositions, to the visitors of Pohoda.
19. May 2016
Joshua Paul Davis began experimenting with a four-track recorder already while in high school. In the early nineties, he began his cooperation with the record label Mo 'Wax. His early singles, including “In/Flux” and “Lost and Found (S.F.L.)”, were merging elements of funk, rock, hip hop, jazz, and soul. In 1994, press media coined the term “trip-hop” to describe this genre, when Mixmagʼs journalist Andy Pemberton used it for Shadowʼs song “In/Flux”. A real turning point in his career, however, came after the release of his debut ...Edntroducing. The album appeared in prestigious rankings of the best albums of all times and in the Guinness Book of Records; even the reissue of the album nine years later received Pitchforkʼs ten points out of ten. A fun fact is that the only pieces of equipment he used to produce the album were the old Japanese midi controller, a pair of turntables, and a borrowed software.
In 1998 he produced “Psyence Fiction”, the debut of UNKLE that featured guest appearances including Thom Yorke, Richard Ashcroft, Mike D, and Jason Newsted. In 2002 he released his second album, The Private Press, featuring his perhaps best known song “Six Days”. Albums The Outsider (2006) and The Less You Know, The Better (2011) followed. In early April, he finished his fifth album The Mountain Will Fall, which will be officially released two weeks before Pohoda. When writing about him, journalists do not usually mention who influenced him, they rather say who he influenced, they do not say whom he collaborated with but who worked with him. After nine years, DJ Shadow is returning to Pohoda.