Endtroducing.....

What resonated about Endtroducing... when it was released in 1996, andwhat makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosensitself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an unchartedterritory that seems to exist both in and out of time. Josh Davis is notonly a master sampler and turntablist supreme, he is also a seriousarcheologist with a world-thirsty passion (what Cut Chemist refers to asJosh's spidey sense) for seeking out, uncovering and thenripping apart the discarded graces of some other generation thatpile of broken dreams and weaving them back together into atapestry of chronic bleakness and beauty. Over the course of severallong conversations with Josh Davis (DJ Shadow), we learn about his earlyyears in California, the friends and mentors who helped him along theway, his relationship with Mo'Wax and James Lavelle, and the genesisand creation of his widely acknowledged masterpiece, Endtroducing....