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Private Press
by DJ Shadow
from Mca

Features:

• Explicit Lyrics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Knocking on the door of greatness ... but not quite there
  Ah yes the Private Press. Has it already been 6 years? Well it has and the album continues to impress. I honestly believe the album is appreciated more today than it was upon its' release back in 2002. DJ Shadow quality music with a bit more flair. This album could've been a masterpiece had it not been for some tracks. Ahem ...Monosylabik and Right Thing / GDMFSOB. To this day I have no idea why he did not include the other version of GDMFSOB with Roots Manuva (see the Private Repress). I simply couldn't... more info

• Sensation's Fix
  Any guy who can steal an obscure song by an obscure 70's band from Italy ("Strange About The Hands" by Sensation's Fix) and turn it into a fairly decent hop ("Mongrel . . . Meets His Maker") can't be all bad. But he ain't all that great either.
  

• Mind Shifting
  Five years following the creation of Entroducing... DJ Shadow has again significantly altered the music genre which is known as trip-hop. Shadow's album The Private Press has contradicting yet very similar aspects in comparison to its predecessor. Both are built based on instrumentals. Both encapsulate the mind through mind altering beats and classic scratching. However The Private Press unlike Entroducing... is a journey into the trip-hops ability to alter the mind.
  The Private Press tone is... more info

• "Decent" Comes to Mind
  The sophomore slump has by far become the norm in music and when you cake on the monumental disappointing effect that could have by following a landmark piece of art, well, to put it modestly, the stakes are high. 'The Private Press' is by no means the disaster it could have been, but it is nowhere near the cohesive groundbreaking masterpiece its predecesor was. A compilation of B-Sides is the generic thought that comes to mind.
  "Monosylabik", with its geek-out sampler-effects extravaganza does not... more info

Tracks:

1. Letter From Home
2. Fixed Income
3. Un Autre Introduction
4. Walkie Talkie
5. Giving Up The Ghost
6. Six Days
7. Mongrel...
8. ...Meets His Maker
9. Right Thing/GDMFSOB
10. Monosylabic
11. Mashin On The Motorway
12. Blood On The Motorway
13. You Can't Go Home Again
14. Letter From Home

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