Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow
DJ Shadow, rightly regarded as one of the most influential and consistently innovative artists to emerge from music in the last 20 years, has four collections of his finest recordings released on September 3rd via Island Records. “Reconstructed: The Best Of DJ Shadow” will be released on one single CD and double vinyl, while “Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow” will be issued as a multi-disc box set. Limited to 500 copies worldwide, each set will be individually signed by DJ Shadow and will include 8 discs, 1 x 12” vinyl record, as well as a booklet, featuring an essay by acclaimed music writer Dave Tompkins, and numerous photo. With stunning artwork and design by Trevor Jackson, the box set is the most ambitious and comprehensive retrospective ever assembled to represent Shadow’s output. “It’s never an easy task to sum up a career in one release,” says Shadow, “but this box comes pretty close. This is the definitive, final document of the sound I’m most known for.” The box will be available exclusively from DJ Shadow.com All the music across the three formats is drawn from Shadow’s 20-year career…from the early pre-Mo Wax days, right up to the present and his most recent album, ”The Less You Know, The Better.” Perhaps most exciting to Shadow fans is the inclusion of two brand new tracks, including the pop masterpiece “Listen,” featuring legendary vocalist Terry Reid.
The track-listings for all formats are as follows:Single CD:
1. Midnight In A Perfect World
2. High Noon
3. I've Been Trying
4. This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)
5. You Can't Go Home Again [Radio Edit]
6. Scale It Back (Featuring Little Dragon) [Single Edit]
7. Listen (Featuring Terry Reid) (Previously Unreleased)
8. Stem [Single Edit]
9. Six Days
10. Won’t You Be (Previously Unreleased)
11. Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
12. Lonely Soul (Featuring Richard Ashcroft) [7" Version]
13. Blood On The Motorway
14. You Made It (Featuring Chris James)
15. Redeemed
16. Dark Days (Main Theme)
Thom Yorke) 11. Dark Days (Main Theme)
Vinyl:
Disc One
Side A
1. Midnight In A Perfect World
2. High Noon
3. I've Been Trying
4. This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)
Side B
1. You Can't Go Home Again [Radio Edit]
2. Scale It Back (Featuring Little Dragon) [Single Edit]
3. Listen (Featuring Terry Reid) (Previously Unreleased)
4. Stem [Single Edit]
Disc Two
Side A
1. Six Days
2.Won’t You Be (Previously Unreleased)
3. Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
4. Lonely Soul (Featuring Richard Ashcroft) [7" Version]
Side B
1. Blood On The Motorway
2. You Made It (Featuring Chris James)
3. Redeemed
Box Set
Disc 1: Endtroducing…
Disc 2: Entroducing… Bonus Disc (Rarities and B-Sides)
Disc 3: The Private Press
Disc 4: The Outsider
Disc 5: The Less You Know, The Better
Disc 6: The Best Of The Rest (Bonus CD)
- 1. Listen (Featuring Terry Reid) (Previously Unreleased)
- 2. Won’t You Be (Previously Unreleased)
- 3. Lost And Found (S.F.L.)
- 4. Hindsight
- 5. Skullfuckery (Featuring The Heliocentrics)
- 6. Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip-Hop
- 7. Divine Intervention (Featuring Divine Styler)
- 8. Lonely Soul (Featuring Richard Ashcroft) [7” Edit]
- 9. High Noon
- 10. Dark Days (Main Theme)
- 11. Camel Bobsled Race (DJ Shadow Mix by Q-Bert)
Disc 8: (DVD) In Tune and On Time
Box Set 12”:
Side A
1. The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix)
2. Be There (Featuring Ian Brown) (Underdog Mix)
3. Six Days (Remix)
Side B
1. Enuff (DJ Fresh Remix)
2. I Gotta Rokk (Irn Mnky Swagger Mix)
3. Scale It Back (Kev Willow Remix)
Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, changed the game in 1996 with the release of his universally acclaimed debut album Endtroducing... Made entirely from samples, “Endtroducing...” was like nothing that had come before. Sixteen years on and it remains as potent and revered an album as it was on release. Shadow followed up two years later by making the lion's share of the music on the 1998 U.N.K.L.E. album, Psyence Fiction, an album with James Lavelle, featuring Thom Yorke, Ian Brown and Richard Ashcroft amongst others. By the time he released The Private Press, 2002, Davis felt he had taken emotive instrumental music created entirely from samples – as far as it could go and the new record took Shadow into new territories confounding those who were waiting on Endtroducing...Part 2. The Private Press remains one of the most underrated follow-up albums. The Outsider (2006) saw DJ Shadow making a hip-hop record featuring some of leading exponents of the Bay Area’s then burgeoning Hyphy scene while last year’s The Less You Know, the Better, was, according to Stool Pigeon magazine, “a testament to his enduring sampling genius”.
Reconstructed: The Best Of DJ Shadow And Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow available- DJ Shadow.com
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