Week of DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow
October 31, 2009
Los Angeles, CA
Photographs Courtesy of Upperhands


My first introduction to DJ Shadow was by mistake ... twice.

Year: 1998
Store: Mr. Cheapo's Used CD's / Records
I know really nothing about music at this time, other than the Beastie Boys,
and what white boy at the age of 13 didn't know about them?
The cover of Endtroducing is what sucked me in at first i think.
Some hip hop heads hanging out in a huge record store.
Listened to it numeorus times.
I just didn't get it.
My ears just couldn't grasp it's shear genius.
Yet.
I actually returned the CD to the same Used CD place i had bought it from in exchange for most likely some terrible album that I would be embarrassed admitting to now.
About a year later I was walking in the rain pondering things, listening to my walkman, when I realized that I made a tape recording of Endtroducing.
I decided to give it a second chance.
Beats made sense,
Lyrics were no longer important,
What Does Your Soul Look Like?
City bricks and windows covered in writing pass by
the crackle of vinyl records constantly flowing through my veins
Changeling
Pain is no longer felt
the tracks just flowed
like water in an ocean
like carving through snow down a mountain
like the slowing down of a heartbeat.
Organ Donor.
My ears have matured.
Midnight In A Perfect World.

The week of January 19 - 24th, 2010
Upperhands is dedicated to DJ Shadow

Special Thanks : "Bic" - ing roommate's lighters, the New York Jets and New York Islanders finally making me proud, Seeing that clip in the film "Scratch" where DJ Shadow is in a dark and dusty basement with thousands of records around him, SinninginLA.com , Knowing when to call it quits.