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Joshua Paul Davis, dit DJ Shadow, est un musicien, producteur, et disc jockey américain, né le 29 juin 1972 à Hayward, en Californie. Il est aussi reconnu comme une figure emblématique du mouvement hip-hop expérimental. Il est le premier à avoir produit un album entièrement composé de samples. Pour son activité de DJ, il possède une grande collection de 60 000 albums.

En parallèle de ses travaux en solo, DJ Shadow participe à de nombreux autres projets collectifs, avec notamment Cut Chemist , DJ Krush , Massive Attack , DJ Q-Bert ou encore UNKLE. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. juin 1972
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DJ Shadow: Citations en anglais

“Being a DJ, I take the art of digging seriously… it has almost a karmic element of, 'I was meant to find this on top.' or, 'I was meant to pull this out becuase it works so well with this.' So it has a lot of meaning for me personally.”

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From the documentary Scratch

“Producers like Organized Noize mix samples and live instruments really well, but for me, it almost feels like a cop-out, because I'm a collage artist. It's like, 'Damn, if only I could find this one part. Well, maybe if I just had somebody paint it, and then I'll put it out.' That almost feels like cheating. Lots of times, I have trouble finding bass lines, because it's not very often on a record that there are good open bass lines. Sometimes I wish I could just have somebody come in and do what I want him to do on a bass line. It would be so easy. But what I do just keeps things much more challenging, I guess.”

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_%28music%29
On Sampling

“Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.”

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http://to-the-quick.binghamton.edu/issue%202/sampling.html
On Sampling