DJ Shadow - Private Press
4 ratings since posting on Monday, September 27, 2004
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Umm, who is DJ Shadow? Just kidding... - Unsubscribed , posted 01/17/05 |
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I don't know if you would call this "trip hop" or "drum n bass", but this album is amazing from start to finish. Quote: The album title, as with most aspects of his career, draws partially from the lineage of previous artists who have contributed to the world?s catalogue of music. A private press, you see, is a record collector?s term for a breed of companies who would release your record if you paid them to, the ?vanity rs? of the music world. For Josh Davis, though, this is noreason for mockery, but something to be celebrated. ? As I was working on the record, I found myself gravitating towards many different styles of music and records as inspiration, and what they all had in common was the ?home-made? factor,? he says. ?Struggling artists just trying to be heard above the din of the mainstream, whether they be funk bands, garage rock bands, or a lone folk guitarist. I found, and find, this independent spirit refreshing and infinitely admirable; in this sense, then, ?The Private Press? is my homage to all those unheralded musicians who produced their own output and presented it earnestly to an often indifferent public.? He adds, ?I also like the title because you don?t have to be a record freak to have it mean something to you.? - Ken , posted 09/27/04 |
