Person · Male
DJ Shadow
US hip hop producer, DJ & instrumentalist
- From
- San Jose, United States
- Since
- 1972–present
- Rating
- ★ 4.35
- Releases
- 141
- electronic
- hip hop
- turntablism
- instrumental hip hop
- trip hop
- experimental hip hop
- downtempo
- electronica
About
Joshua Paul Davis (born June 29, 1972), known professionally as DJ Shadow, is an American DJ and record producer. His debut studio album, Endtroducing....., was released in 1996. Davis uses layered production with numerous samples. From 1996 to 1999, he was also part of the band Unkle.
Member of
Discography
Albums
EPs
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Entropy / Send Them
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What Does Your Soul Look Like Apple Music
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Stem Apple Music
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What I Do in My Bedroom
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What I Do in My Bedroom, Volume 2
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Selections From the Private Press
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Mashin' on the Motorway
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Bay Area EP
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DJ Hero Mixes
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I'm Excited Apple Music
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I Gotta Rokk Apple Music
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The Liquid Amber EP Apple Music
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The Mountain Has Fallen
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The Hard Sell Version 1
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The Outsider EP
Singles
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The Mo’Wax Singles, 1993–1997: Stem / High Noon
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Nobody Speak Part 2
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New Year's Eve 2024 (Portland)
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You Played Me
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Rocket Fuel Apple Music
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Rosie Apple Music
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Nobody Speak
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Swerve
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Scale It Back
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Def Surrounds Us / I've Been Trying Apple Music
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Skratchcon Rehearsal Mix
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Gabracadabra
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Enuff
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This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way) Apple Music
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3 Freaks Apple Music
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The Grand Ol' Party Crash
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James Brown 50th
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Would You Buy a War From This Man?
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March of Death
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Six Days Apple Music
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You Can't Go Home Again Apple Music
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D‐Styles vs. DJ Shadow
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Monosylabik
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Press Cuttings (‘The Private Press’ Compacted)
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Blood on the Motorway (DJ Shadow live Beats mix)
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Dark Days
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Number Song / Painkiller
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High Noon Apple Music
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What Does Your Soul Look Like Apple Music
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Midnight in a Perfect World Apple Music
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Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip Hop / Fully Charged on Planet X
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Lost & Found / Kemuri
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Send Them / Entropy
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In/Flux / Hindsight
Live
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DJ Shadow (UNKLE) Live BBC Evening Session 1998
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Live in Manchester: The Mountain Has Fallen Tour
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All Basses Covered (The Infamous South Beach Set, December 2012)
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All Basses Covered (Low End Theory Set #1, July 2012)
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2012-12-05: Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW, Santa Monica, CA, USA
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2011-06-18: BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix: Rockness Festival
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DJ Shadow in Los Angeles, 10/31/09
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Spinning Live in NYC, 1996
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The UNKLE In-Stores
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Live at Bizarre Festival (Germany, August 16th, 2002)
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Live in Milan, Italy (September 1st, 1999)
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The Hard Sell
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Hard Sell at the Hollywood Bowl
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The Hard Sell (Encore)
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The Hard Sell (Live At The Grand Ballroom San Francisco)
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Live at Brixton Academy December 2006
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One Night in Bangkok
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Live! In Tune and on Time
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Product Placement: On Tour
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Diminishing Returns
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Live at I.C.A.
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Live at the Root Down Xmas 2001
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Brain Freeze Original Sound Track
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Mary Anne Hobbs Mix, BBC1 May 29th, 2002
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Live From Austin
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Product Placement
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Thud Rumble Live at The Fillmore, SF
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Thudrumble (live at the Fillmore)
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Brainfreeze
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Push Button Objects Live
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Camel Bobsled Race (Q-Bert live mix)
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1997-10-30: BBC
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1999-10-30: Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX, USA
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Live from Ninja Tune Heaquarters
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1997-12-06: Live 105 Electronic Chanukah
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1999-08-13: La Route du Rock Festival, Saint-Malo, France
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2002-07-23: Belly Up Tavern, San Diego, CA, USA
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2002-10-29: Nottingham, UK
Compilations
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The Mo’Wax Singles, 1993–1997
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Reconstructed: The Definitive DJ Shadow
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Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions From the MPC Era, 1992-1996
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Reconstructed: The Best of DJ Shadow
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The DJ Shadow Remix Project
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The 4-Track Era Collection (1990-1992)
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The 4-Track Era, Volume 3: Best of the Original Productions (1990-1992)
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The 4-Track Era, Volume 2: Best of the Remixes and Megamixes (1990-1992)
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The Hyphy Movement
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The 4-Track Era, Volume 1: Best of the KMEL Mixes (1991)
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Best of Mo Wax 12's: The DJ Shadow Collection
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Def Beat Remixes, Volume 8
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Schoolhouse Funk II: Raw Business
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Excessive Ephemera
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Funky Skunk
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Songs For Synchronization Licensing
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The Crates
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The Private Repress
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One to Grow On
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Schoolhouse Funk
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2000-07-03: Solid Steel Radio Show
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2000-10-16: Solid Steel Radio Show
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Preemptive Strike
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In-Fluxuations
Other
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You Played Me (Chrome Sparks remix)
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Rocket Fuel (Remixes) Apple Music
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Endtroducing (Endtroducing Re-Emagined)
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2016-07-02: BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
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Stem / Long Stem (Clams Casino remix)
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The Remixes
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Scale It Back (Remixes)
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Uncharted: The El Dorado Megamix
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War Is Hell b/w Outsider Intro (instrumental)
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Enuff / This Time
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This Time (I’m Gonna Try It My Way) (South Rakkas Crew mix) Apple Music
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We Might as Well Be Strangers
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The Gloaming (DJ Shadow remix)
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2003-03-30: BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
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2002-07-23: Breezeblock
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N8'Locs Analog Diaries #1
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Six Days (Bad Company vs Fresh) Apple Music
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In the Mix ~ 10 Minutes of Music from The Private Press
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Asia Borninch
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Real Deal / Lesson 4
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Hip Hop Reconstruction From the Ground Up
Links
Listen
Official
Concerts
Also known as
D.J. Shadow · DJ Shadow Presents... · DJ Shadow/Q-Bert · Dj Shadow · Josh Davis · Josh Paul Davis · Joshua Paul Davis
Tags
- ambient breakbeat
- bay area rap
- left-field rap
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- efa2c11a-1a35-4b60-bc1b-66d37de88511
- ISNI
- 0000000079837284
- IPI
- 00334685840
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 15 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.