DJ Shadow spent his teenage years in Davis, California and was a DJ at the community radio station KDVS. During his time as a radio disc jockey, DJ Shadow was significant in developing the experimental instrumental hip-hop style associated with the California-based. DJ shadow Organ Donor. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. Listen to official albums & more.
Artist Biography by John Bush
Since its 1992 inception, UNKLE has been the primary musical outlet of James Lavelle. The co-founder of Mo' Wax, one of the most consequential English independent labels of the '90s, Lavelle has been joined by a carousel of primary collaborators and an ever-changing array of guest contributors who have helped him indulge in styles ranging from sample-based hip-hop to downcast stoner rock. The Top Five U.K. hit Psyence Fiction (1998), the debut UNKLE album, was shaped by temporary partner DJ Shadow, but its diversions pointed the way toward the progressively band-oriented albums that have followed through the late 2010s. Co-piloted by the likes of Richard File and Pablo Clements, and involving recurring roles for subterranean rockers such as Josh Homme, Chris Goss, and Mark Lanegan, sprawling albums such as Never, Never Land (2003) and Where Did the Night Fall (2010) have ensured that Lavelle won't be known simply as a trip-hop catalyst. After a seven-year break from recording albums, Lavelle and company returned in bleak, cinematic style with the related The Road: Part I (2017) and The Road: Part II (Lost Highway) (2019). Childhood friends James Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy co-founded Mo' Wax in 1992 and established the label with releases by the likes of Repurcussions, Palm Skin Productions, and DJ Shadow. When Mo' Wax launched, Lavelle was still a teenager, motivated by U.S. underground movements such as hip-hop and electro, as well as U.K. scenes and developments including rare groove, acid house, Sheffield bleep, and acid jazz, the latter of which he had covered as a columnist for Straight No Chaser magazine. After Lavelle and Goldsworthy remixed tracks by United Future Organization and Mondo Grosso under the guise Men from U.N.K.L.E., they added Kudo of Major Force, Skylab, and Love T.K.O. The trio made their Mo' Wax debut as UNKLE in 1994 with The Time Has Come EP, featuring 'If You Find Earth Boring' -- a leisurely 14-minute suite of sample-based instrumental hip-hop -- and remixes from Portishead, Howie B, and Plaid. Despite the rapidly increasing popularity of Mo' Wax, including a partial-ownership deal with A&M and a Top 20 U.K. hit with DJ Shadow's Endtroducing....., UNKLE released the Money Mark-assisted Berry Meditation EP and were among the most sought-after remixers of the era with clients including Radiohead, Massive Attack, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Beck, and Tortoise.Goldsworthy and Kudo had remained more heavily involved in nuts-and-bolts production, while Lavelle engaged in the conceptual, organizational, and A&R end, crafting beats, laying out vague sketches, and using his connections for extra assistance. The first two, however, were effectively replaced by DJ Shadow for Psyence Fiction, UNKLE's 1998 debut album. It set a standard for all future UNKLE albums with its stylistic diversions and unlikely assortment of guests, this time involving Radiohead's Thom Yorke, the Verve's Richard Ashcroft, Talk Talk's Mark Hollis, and Metallica's Jason Newstead, plus legendary hardcore rapper Kool G Rap. The album reached number four in the U.K., topped the independent chart, and in the U.S. almost managed to crack the upper half of the Billboard 200. Shadow subsequently left to concentrate on his own work.
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