Determined to craft a work of lasting power
there are some moments of calm amongst the treachery of Trawlers
” delivering intense mantra-rock infused with tribal post-punk energy
when his highly acclaimed ambient group Emeralds were still actively touring and releasing records
This album balances heavy
Endtroducing Bad Cop/Bad Cop Determined to craft a workAs a suburban Californian kid, DJ Shadow tended to treat hip hop as a musical innovation, not as an explicit social protest, which goes a long way toward explaining why his debut album Endtroducing sounded like nothing else at the time of its release. Using hip hop, not only its rhythms but its cut and paste techniques, as a foundation, Shadow created a deep, endlessly intriguing world on Endtroducing, one where there are no musical genres, only