DJ SHADOW (Endtroducing / Quannum Projects) • Friday Rewind

About this episode

Scroobius Pip revisits his conversation with DJ Shadow, exploring his musical journey and influences.

emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with DJ Shadow , originally episode 298 from 2019-11-13. Original episode intro: " Guess who’s coming… IT’S… Guess who’s coming… IT’S j-j-j-just your favourite DJ saviour / using and confusing beats that you never heard / since / 1990… Ladies and gentlemen, he’ll put a smile on your face like Ultra Brite - it’s DJ SHADOW! " (* now that is a solid intro). Original writeup below: “…Not every musical moment affects people the same way…” A great rare treat for Shadow heads and crate digging nerds, and those who appreciate a good old fashioned music chat right here, but not only that - of course Pip and Shadow get to some really interesting ground when not dealing with the musical matters at hand, including his growing up in a remote town with limited access to hip hop which leads nicely onto how he eventually did find his way in, which then leads us into the whole Mo Wax side of things where he met and worked with James Lavelle extensively for a contained period (the foundation for which being laid by discovering NME, Melody Maker and also by…

People in this episode

Host: Scroobius Pip

Guest: DJ Shadow

Topics covered

• music
• DJ culture
• hip hop history
• interview
• personal stories
• album discussion

Keywords

• DJ Shadow
• hip hop
• Mo Wax
• Entroducing
• music interview
• Scroobius Pip
• album discussion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mo Wax, NME, Melody Maker

Books & works: Nation Of Millions, Entroducing, Soldesides, Unkle, Brainfreeze, Our Pathetic A

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