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Joshua Paul "Josh" Davis (born June 29, 1972), better known by his stage name DJ Shadow, is an American record producer and DJ. He first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut studio album, Endtroducing...... He has a personal record collection of over 60,000 records.

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Incidentally, the very, very first review that James Lavelle and I saw of Endtroducing was very negative! It was in The Wire, and the context of the review was that, you know, Mo'Wax was so far behind Ninja Tune. Heheheh. And people wonder why there was this sense of a feud between labels! We just kind of looked at each other and we were like, 'Oh, well, let the floodgates open!' But, not to be facile, that was literally the last bad review I ever saw for that album.

Bad, Heheheh, James, Negative, People, Wire

I always like to remain a fan, put it that way: and I like to hold the idealised version of what these artists are like. Greed is one of those components of human nature that's inherent in everyone, and sometimes it is an unpleasant thing to engage in.

Artist, Fan, Greed, Like, Nature, Sometimes

If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction.

Chance, Impact, Part, Right, Trying, Views

When I'm representing my music live I think of it very much in a rock band sense. When I first started doing festivals in the 90s there really weren't other DJs playing the stages I was playing. So I felt I was being afforded an opportunity to kind of make a statement about what DJ music can be live. In the 90s, if you were a DJ you were in the dance tent, and you were playing house music and techno music. There was no such thing as a DJ - a solo DJ - on a stage, after a rock band and before another rock band: that just didn't happen.

House, Opportunity, Solo, Statement, Think, Thinking

I feel less and less like that every year, and I guess maybe even more so with every new record that I put out. I just think, as the years go by, it's harder and harder to really find a reason to be annoyed that you made something that people want to continuously talk about. Certainly there are contexts in which the record can be discussed which will get me on the defensive and make me want to put some kind of calibration or some kind of context on what the record means in relation to my career as a whole.

Contexts, Harder, Mean, People, Thinking, Years

I would rather have 10 people working on a record that are really committed and believe in it and love it, than 50 people who have no idea who I am or what I'm for.

Believe, Idea, Ideas, Love, Who I Am, Working

I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

Consumer, Consumers, Music, Stills

Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

Album, Albums, Like, Mantra, Multiple Meanings, Titles

I think a band - even a band that's been around as long as the Rolling Stones - I think that's still the formula. You know you're gonna get those songs, and you don't mind sitting through the ones that you maybe don't know very well because you know they're not gonna let you down - they're not gonna mess with you. And I kind of feel the same way about the way I structure my shows.

Kind, Long, Mess, Same, Song, Thinking

I would agree with you that there's 90% imitation and 10% innovation. That's true of any genre.

Genre, Imitation, Innovation, True

Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, "Is that really what people think I sound like?"

Compared, Like, People, Sound, Thinking

Sometimes there's this balance: if you try to clear 10 things you'll probably get lucky and be able to clear most of them, or all of them; try to clear 20 things, in my mind there's gonna be at least one issue, maybe two - and then that's when it starts getting into either re-recording stuff, or you've got to take that song off.

Song, Mind, Balance, Stuff, Things

If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?

Community, Contribute, Hyphy, Movement, Records

I've always been compared to people. It's a revolving cast that comes and goes - obviously, sometimes people stay.

People, Sometimes, Casts, Stay, Cast

When I make music, it takes me two hours to get into the flow. To me it's like tapping into some kind of subconscious frequency: I just have to turn everything else off, open up part of myself, expose my fears and try to work through it in the music that I'm making.

Flow, Like, Music, Open, Trying, Two

I don't hate what I love. I love what I love and I hate what I hate.

Hate, I Hate, Don'T Hate, Love

Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base.

Control, Fan, Fans, Listening, People, World

The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those inspirational factors that drove rock'n'roll, gospel, and blues. I tend not to value a more pop aesthetic.

Anger, Drove, Pop, Rock N Roll, Rocks, Sadness

I've tried to tell people that the reason I don't really get excited over good press is that I don't want to get agitated over bad press. I don't wanna get too high on good press, too low on bad press. It's just not a healthy way to engage with my own feelings about my music.

Bad, Excited, Feelings, Healthy, Low, People

The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.

Attitude, Fan, Fans, Healthy, Stars, War

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