tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655521.post115740246734330071..comments2024-02-07T12:13:18.013+00:00Comments on missing dust jacket: dj shadow at kokoraspberry berethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11818036801098489630noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655521.post-1157405925415710352006-09-04T21:38:00.000+00:002006-09-04T21:38:00.000+00:00and that, my dear, is what you call an A+ reviewand that, my dear, is what you call an A+ reviewraspberry berethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11818036801098489630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16655521.post-1157404717505718012006-09-04T21:18:00.000+00:002006-09-04T21:18:00.000+00:00Robert Christgau on DJ Shadow's Endtroducing...:"A...Robert Christgau on DJ Shadow's Endtroducing...:<BR/><BR/>"Armed with a sampler, a sequencer, and the black plastic he gave up trying to catalogue in 1989, 24-year-old Josh Davis of Davis, California and London, England distills everything he loves about drumbeats, symph-schlock, and oddball Americana into a 63-minute work with a beginning, a middle, and a to-be-continued. <BR/><BR/>Some under a minute, some over nine, the 13 tracks are designed for headphones--Apollonian even if beat-driven, their only vocals spoken-word and comedy samples that accrue a mysterious fascination without ever revealing their relevance to each other or anything else. <BR/><BR/>Except, that is, for the 30-second intro to the six-minute "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt," in which a square, self-taught drummer explains himself as a reassuring crackle attests to his vinyl authenticity down in the mix: "I'd like to just continue to be able to express myself as best as I can. And I feel like I'm a student of the drums. And I'm also a teacher." And then he chuckles nervously. And then Davis loops that chuckle for a second or two, making of it music and chaos and satire and self-mockery and music all at once."paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14867697107799151822noreply@blogger.com