R&B

February, 1997

DJ Shadow (a.k.a. Josh Davis) is a 24-year-old Californian who's famous in London for inventing the spacey techno-derived style known as trip-hop. Armed with a sampler, a sequencer and mountains of vinyl, Shadow painstakingly creates music. Some of the 13 dense, varied, drum-driven tracks on Endtroducing DJ Shadow (FFRR/Mo' Wax) are less than a minute in duration, while others are more than nine. They are not so much songs as compositions, designed for headphones rather than dance floors.Tricky...