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4 unusual facts about DJ Shadow


Ben Pridmore

He was prominently featured in the music video for DJ Shadow's single "Scale It Back".

Joshua Davis

DJ Shadow (born 1972), disc jockey whose real name is Joshua Davis

Remixes 81–04

# "Painkiller (Kill the Pain - DJ Shadow vs. Depeche Mode)" – 6:29 (DJ Shadow, 1998) (from promo cassette)

Sound Awake

It was later mixed at Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios and mastered by Tom Coyne (DJ Shadow, The Roots) at Sterling Sounds in New York.


Damian Taylor

Taylor's time as a co-producer in remix teams for UNKLE, Adam Freeland, and Guy Sigsworth (Heavy Rotation) as well as a producer of remixes under both his own name and the Stone Lions moniker have earned him a Grammy nod, remixing tracks of artists such as Arcade Fire, DJ Shadow, UNKLE, Björk, Placebo, Kylie Minogue, Depeche Mode, and Metallica.

Funky Skunk

Funky Skunk, a mix album released in late summer 2005, has been framed within the project Public Works billed as a DJ Shadow/Obey reconstruction and co-production between Josh Davis (DJ Shadow) and Shepard Fairey, in concordance with a product line of shirts, stickers and box set.

Malcom Catto

Malcom Catto is an English drummer and musician, known as DJ Shadow's tour drummer, a member of The Perfect Disaster and his recent work for Stones Throw Records.

New Diplomat

The band is currently recording the follow up to "Buy Yourself Some Freedom", which will be a new single produced and engineered at Trilogy Studios in San Francisco by famed producer Dan the Automator (Gorillaz, DJ Shadow, Lovage, Kasabian), set to be released in April 2012.

Night Verses

In multiple interviews the band has referenced Tool, Isis, Fiona Apple, At the Drive-In, Opeth, Björk, Deftones, DJ Shadow, Nirvana, Meshuggah, Rage Against the Machine, various Trip hop Artists and the film Beyond the Black Rainbow as influences that have had a heavy impact on their sound.

Sensations' Fix

In 2002, DJ Shadow sampled Sensations' Fix on the tracks "Fixed Income" and "Mongrel...Meets His Maker" from The Private Press, and in 2008 Sonic Youth titled one of their art exhibitions "Sensational Fix".

The Aurora Encounter

A long sample of Elam's dialogue regarding "Dr Neptune's delicious elixir" was used in hip hop artist DJ Shadow's acclaimed 1996 album Endtroducing.....

You've Come a Long Way, Baby

"Gangster Trippin" contains samples of "Entropy", written and performed by DJ Shadow (Josh Davis), and "Beatbox Wash", written and performed by the Dust Junkys (Sam Brox, Ganiyu Pierre Gasper, Stephen Jones, Nicholas Lockett and Myke Wilson).


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