WILT_2023-34

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 20 Aug 2023 to 26 Aug 2023.

1. Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt – DJ Shadow
2. Changeling / Transmission – DJ Shadow
3. What Does Your Soul Look Like , Pt. 4 – DJ Shadow
4. Giving Up The Ghost – DJ Shadow
5. Right Thing / GDMFSOB – DJ Shadow
6. Monosylabik, Pt. 1 & 2 – DJ Shadow
7. You Can’t Go Home Again – DJ Shadow
8. Giving Up The Ghost (Original Version) – DJ Shadow
9. Pretense – DJ Krush
10. Keep Em Close – DJ Shadow, Nump
11. Broken Levee Blues – DJ Shadow
12. Artifact (Instrumental) – DJ Shadow
13. Backstage Girl – DJ Shadow, Phonte Coleman
14. The Tiger – DJ Shadow, Sergio Pizzorno, Christopher Karloff
15. Dats My Part – DJ Shadow, E-40
16. Border Cross – DJ Shadow
17. Stay The Course – DJ Shadow, Posdnuous, Talib Kweli
18. I’ve Been Trying – DJ Shadow
19. Sad And Lonely – DJ Shadow
20. Warning Call – DJ Shadow, Tom Vek
21. Tedium – DJ Shadow
22. Enemy Lines – DJ Shadow
23. Going Nowhere – DJ Shadow
24. Scale It Back – DJ Shadow
25. I’ll Hit The Breaks – Yppah

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2023-34

Notes

Listening to The Alchemist last week and coming across Ozone Scraper by DJ Shadow inspired me to revisit DJ Shadow’s discography. My goal was to go through the producer’s discography in a chronological fashion, but I only managed made it to his fourth album.

However, in doing so, I did notice a development in his musicality between 1996–2011. In summary, 1996’s Endtroducing was a phenomenal debut that showcased his deep knowledge and appreciation of different types of music, and demonstrated his ability to splice deep cut samples into actual music, but by 2011’s The Less You Know, The Better, he really comes into his own as a balanced and holistic producer who still features many obscure samples, but with a keener focus on overall songwriting. 

I think it’s worth understanding and exploring when these four albums came out, as well as linking to genius.com to explore the samples used in each track. 

Endtroducing (1996)

• Building Steam With A Gain Of Salt
• Changeling / Transmission
• What Does Your Soul Look Like , Pt. 4

The Private Press (2002)

• Giving Up The Ghost
• Right Thing / GDMFSOB
• Monosylabik, Pt. 1 & 2
• You Can’t Go Home Again

The Outsider (2006)

• Keep Em Close
• Broken Levee Blues
• Artifact (Instrumental)
• Backstage Girl
• The Tiger
• Dats My Part

The Less You Know, The Better (2011)

• Border Cross
• Stay The Course
• I’ve Been Trying
• Sad And Lonely
• Warning Call
• Tedium
• Enemy Lines
• Going Nowhere
• Scale It Back

There were also tracks by DJ Krush and Yppah that stood out in between albums, and I thought I’d give them a shout out over here.