Hip-hop, electronica impresario DJ Shadow has been announced for den Atelier's March 2024 line-up and the Grand Duchy couldn't be more amped for the event.
Crate digger and turntable extraordinaire, DJ Shadow, aka Joshua Davis, has just dropped his seventh album Action Adventure to wide acclaim and with it a new run of dates, including a trek across Europe, and just-announced plans to grace the stage of den Atelier to promote his latest collection of beats and soundscapes...
For over 30 years, Josh Davis has expressed his passion, taste, and values through the music he creates as DJ Shadow. The name alone evokes a high watermark for instrumental hip-hop and composition. From his first masterpiece Endtroducing (on which can be found the iconic and Midnight in a Perfect World)…, to the genre-hopping UNKLE release Psyence Fiction, to the otherworldly elegance of The Private Press and its iconic single Six Days - Remix, Nobody Speak” to his underrated Bay Area celebration The Outsider, his work in the ‘90s and first decade of the 2000s is as essential as it is hard-to-pin-down.
In the 2010s, Shadow released the sprawling The Less You Know, the Better, with its muscular forays into rock music, and closed the decade with The Mountain Will Fall and Our Pathetic Age, both very ambitious, risk-taking albums that boasted some of his best rap collaborations by working with Run the Jewels, Nas, and De La Soul, among others. If there’s a single red thread across this career, it's his restless ear, always searching to rescue some forgotten gem from the dustbin of music history or a fresh blast of sound from the cutting edge.
The title Action Adventure evokes the halcyon days of video store browsing, and it’s fitting that he provides a crowd pleasing ending. Of course, this is still a DJ Shadow album, so don’t mistake that for anything corny. This is a record of mature sparseness, a revitalizing and focused release that suggests a refined late period from a grandmaster of our time. “Rightly or wrongly, I’m not thinking about anybody’s musical wants or desires but my own,” he says.
Check out what Steve Miller had to say about DJ Shadow's most recent cuts in his preview of new music in August.
Tickets go on sale this Friday 03 November at 11am.
Get set to claim your spot for an extraordinary musical night you won't want to pass up. The Today Radio crew are in talks for an interview and, of course, a ticket competition will be announced i the coming months. Stay tuned.
