Me and the muse: DJ Shadow on his sources of inspiration

The California hip-hop innovator on the records at the root of two decades of beat-making, sampling and scratchingBorn in 1972, Joshua Paul Davis grew up in California and started collecting records and experimenting with music production aged 12, laying the foundations for an influential career as a DJ and producer. In the early 90s, as DJ Shadow, he built a reputation for atmospheric, sample-driven instrumental hip-hop with tracks such as Lost and Found and In/Flux. His classic 1996 debut Endt...

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