DJ Shadow: soundtrack of my life

The Californian hip-hop artist and record-digger extraordinaire on his love of James Brown, his thirst for new music, and why Dr Dre sounds like homeDuring his most intense period of collecting, Josh Davis, alias DJ Shadow, would spend several hours a day in the basement of Rare Records in his native Sacramento, California, only breaking from his hunt for unusual sounds when he was out of money or in need of sunlight. The same shop was immortalised on the cover of his debut album, 1996's Endtrod...

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