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“The Outsider” also featured a single with Q-Tip (of A Tribe Called Quest), which led to Shadow’s first appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.īetween 20 Shadow released three volumes of “The 4-Track Era Collection,” a series of his earliest recordings. The following year Shadow released a mix album, “Diminishing Returns,” and in 2004 he released a live album and DVD, “Live! In Tune and on Time.” In 2006 he released another long awaited full-length album “The Outsider,” which featured rising Bay Area Hyphy rappers including Keak Da Sneak and E-40. Nearly six years after his debut production album, the proper follow-up, “The Private Press,” was released in June 2002. His next project came in 1999, with the transformation of Solesides into a new label, Quannum Projects. Later that year, Shadow produced tracks for the debut album by U.N.K.L.E., a long-time Mo’ Wax production team that gained superstar guests including Thom Yorke (of Radiohead), Richard Ashcroft (of the Verve), Mike D (of the Beastie Boys), and others. “Preemptive Strike,” a compilation of early singles, followed in early 1998. Shadow’s first full-length, “Endtroducing…”, was released on the label in late 1996 to immense critical acclaim in Britain and America. In 1993, Shadow pressed his 17-minute beat-head symphony “Entropy.” His tracks spread widely through the DJ-strong hip-hop underground, eventually reaching James Lavelle of Mo Wax. Concurrently, Shadow provided beats and scratches for Bay Area rapper Paris and was featured on his second album. Shadow was featured in the magazine’s “Unsigned Hype” column in 1991, and Klein signed him to a production deal with Hollywood BASIC records. Hooking up with Davis’ few b-boys (including eventual Solesides artists Blackalicious and Lyrics Born) through the college radio station, Shadow began releasing the Hip-Hop Reconstruction mix tapes in 1991, eventually catching the attention of The Source magazine and Dave Funkenklein.

Josh “Shadow” Davis had already been experimenting with making beats and breaks on a four-track recorder while he was in high school in the Nor-Cal college town of Davis, but it was during university that he co-founded his own Solesides label as an outlet for his original tracks. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MCs, and Public Enemy groups which prominently featured DJs in their ranks. Inspired by hip-hop’s early years, he then grew to absorb the heyday of crews like Eric B.

He has a personal record collection of over 60,000 records.ĭJ Shadow is widely credited as a key figure in developing the experimental instrumental hip-hop style associated with the London-based Mo Wax label. He first gained notice with the release of his acclaimed debut studio album, Endtroducing. Joshua Paul Davis (born Jin San Jose, California), better known by his stage name DJ Shadow, is an American record producer and DJ.