DJ Shadow – The 4-Track Era

There’s a very cool limited edition release from DJ Shadow out there that’s slowly been appearing on the torrent scene. It’s 4 volume set of his early mixes that he originally made on his, you guessed it, 4-track recorder.

My favourite here is the first volume prepared in 1991 for a Bay Area radio station, which consists of two long streams of upbeat hip-hop remixed in an already recogniseable Shadow moody manner. The second disc has got his mixes of the best music from the early 90s era.

I’ll update this post when I find the remaining two volumes.

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Depeche Mode – Don’t Follow

I’m not sure but it seems that the same person has been posting these remix albums with material from dmremix.be all the way back in the, sadly gone, days of Demonoid. In any case, I have been following and enjoying some of them. The good ones are dark, majestic and fruity, not spoiling the original song but rather adding the extra layers of texture, weirdness and groove, which is exactly the point.

This one is especially nice because it is based on some great songs. Here’s the track list:

01 A Question Of Time (Greg Mayol Remix)
02 John The Revelator (i0301 Rework)
03 Dream On (Feel The Fever Coming No l Remix)
04 Just Can’t Get Enough (A Lover Get Enough)
05 Nodisco (Derek Marin’s Boys Say Mash Mix)
06 Saw Something (D58 Extended Mix Edit)
07 Enjoy The Silence (Light Mix)
08 Useless (Meddel Werx Remix)

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