DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow, aka Josh Davis, has called his music a hommage to a mostly forgotten minute of
history: pre-rap hip-hop, instrumental collage music with hard beats and an emphasis on
wrenching transitions. And now we have his own forgotten history, stuff released before
his popular Endtroducing album of 1996. Preemptive Strike is a farrago of odds and ends
dating back to 1993, most of them released as limited-run singles on the English la... More >

His best was better the first time ("In/Flux," "Organ Donor [Extended Overhaul]").