About DJ Shadow:
For over 30 years, Josh Davis has expressed his passion, taste, and values through the music he creates as DJ Shadow. The name alone evokes a high watermark for instrumental hip-hop and composition. From his first masterpiece Endtroducing…, to the genre-hopping UNKLE release Psyence Fiction, to the otherworldly elegance of The Private Press and its iconic single “Six Days,” to his underrated Bay Area celebration The Outsider, his work in the ’90s and first decade of the 2000s is as essential as it is hard to pin down.
In the 2010s, Shadow released the sprawling The Less You Know, the Better, with its muscular forays into rock music, and followed with The Mountain Will Fall and Our Pathetic Age, both ambitious, risk-taking albums that featured collaborations with Run the Jewels, Nas, and De La Soul, among others. Most recently, he returned with Action Adventure, an introspective and cinematic project that reaffirmed his singular approach to sound. If there’s a single red thread across this career, it’s his restless ear—always searching to rescue some forgotten gem from the dustbin of music history or a fresh blast of sound from the cutting edge.
