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By the way, if you don't have RJD2's Your Face Or Your Kneecaps then you should definitely get it. One of the best mixes I've ever heard. If you google for the title then some nice person has put it up as mp3s - I think this is morally OK for an unofficial, no-royalties-for-dead-people release.
Any other DJ Shadow stuff worth getting? There's some remix album called Pre-Emptive Strike on Amazon, but that wasn't very good, not lively enough for me.
http://www.tunes.co.uk/tunes/featured/7276.html
I don't have it but I've heard it's very good.
I like In/Flux by DJ Shadow but I think that might be on the Pre-emptive Strike album. There's also a brilliant mix of a DJ Krush tune, Meiso, but I'm not sure where you'd get that now except on Soulseek. Dark Days Theme is excellent and is the, er, theme from the film Dark Days: ditto on finding that one, though. There's also a remix/B-sides album called The Private Repress - it's Japanese and supposedly excellent but I can't get it until my credit card cools off and I can shop with amazon.com again.
Have you heard the Ozomatli album? It's a latin/hip hop fusiony project starring Cut Chemist and most of Jurassic 5. Real party music. I haven't heard it for a while but I'm 'working' from home today so I'll dig it out and have a listen.
> The Brainfreeze remix is top, as is all Cut Chemist stuff, and indeed
> all Jurassic 5 stuff. I bought an album of theirs I didn't even know
> existed, Quality Control - I thought they only had the two.
>
> Any other DJ Shadow stuff worth getting? There's some remix album
> called Pre-Emptive Strike on Amazon, but that wasn't very good, not
> lively enough for me.
You can check out the first UNKLE album which was Shadow & James Lavelle, featured the likes of the bassist from Metallica, Badly Drawn Boy, Thom Yorke, Richard Ashcroft, Beastie Boy's Mike D ... massive high profile stars project! Its called Psyence Fiction. The follow up album didn't have Shadow on board, but is a nice one anyway, also featured the likes of Josh Homme, Massive Attack's 3D, Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno ... all tasty stuff.
Do check out the other bits mentioned here too! RJD2 is a fine successor to Mr Shadow, DJ Krush is well worth checking AND he's got alot of material out there, Coldcut are fine ... especially things like their Journeys By DJs mix 70 Minutes Of Madness. Oh, and you can do no wrong than to grab Music Has The Right To Children by Boards Of Canada!
> The only thing I've heard by them is the Boards of Canada remix of
> Dead Dogs Two, which is great. I normally at least listen to
> everything on the Big Dada label but they completely passed me by.
> Their new album is out soon so I'll definitely get hold of that.
Yeah, I've got Dead Dogs Two remix and something that came on a Big Dada sampler ... aside from Roots Manuva, they seem to be one of the finest things to have come from Big Dada. cLOUDDEADs first album is on the cards for me, has to be had.
I'll definately check out the new RJD2 stuff though.
There's also
> a remix/B-sides album called The Private Repress - it's Japanese and
> supposedly excellent but I can't get it until my credit card cools
> off and I can shop with amazon.com again.
I want this! Its got stuff like the Soulwax remix of Six Days ... I'm wondering if thats the same version that plays over the end credits of Phone Booth. I think that James Lavelle pops up on remix duties on this too under the UNKLE guise.
Don't know if this is what you're talking about, but I got hold of a Shadow EP the other day with remixes of GDMFSOB, Six Days and others, plus radio edits of Walkie Talkie and Mashin' on the Motorway. It's mighty fine, too.
And Product Placement is also rather ace. I need more, MORE dammit!
> unknown kernel wrote:
> I want this! Its got stuff like the Soulwax remix of Six Days ... I'm
> wondering if thats the same version that plays over the end credits
> of Phone Booth. I think that James Lavelle pops up on remix duties on
> this too under the UNKLE guise.
The Six Days remix on the end of Phone Booth has Mos Def on it, and is in my opinion better than the original. It's got cuts from Walkie Talkie on it, and it rules. You can find it if you know where to look *wink wink*