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| | Private Press | | | Music Artist : | | DJ Shadow | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Mca | | Release Date : | | 2002-06-04 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. 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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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 On par with Endtroducing and Preemptive Strike
Submitted on: 2009-07-01 |
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| I feel as though I listen to this album as frequently as I do my other Shadow albums Endtroducing and Preemptive Strike. Although different from both these albums, it still retains the Shadow style that made many people fans to begin with. At the very least buy 12. Blood On The Motorway and 13. You Can't Go Home Again, there two of my favorites. All of the other tracks are great too. Well worth the money. |
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 Knocking on the door of greatness ... but not quite there
Submitted on: 2008-02-26 |
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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 give this album 5 star because of the above mentioned tracks.
However, the remaining tracks are excellent. The Motorway songs are great with their continuity and soul. Giving up the Ghost shows off Shadows beat skills and Six Days has to be heard to be believed.
If I could, I would give The Private Press 4 and a half stars. |
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Sensation's Fix
Submitted on: 2007-12-19 |
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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.
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Mind Shifting
Submitted on: 2007-11-23 |
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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 instantly set by the gloomy track Fixed Income. This song incorporates fleeting music tidbits with a heavy beat which seem to flow effortlessly with each other. Immediately following are songs like Giving up the Ghost and Mongrel... Both songs have such heavy beats you find yourself naturally swaying your head to the music. Yet the two songs which will forever change my thinking of stylistic music are the two ending tracks of Blood on the Motorway and You can't go home again. Both of these tracks are so dark and mysterious that I would rather have you experience the songs then me having to attempt to describe such genius through words. My words would do no justice for such songs. This album from beginning to end is a musical journey. It encapsulates the mind but also gives you ample moments of individual thought. What I am trying to say is that this album makes thinking natural, it makes listening to music seem natural. You find yourself immersed in hard beats coupled with bits and pieces of unidentifiable music. The outcome is an album which alters your very perception of music and sets a prototype for music as a journey rather than music as time filler.
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 Lost Abstract
Submitted on: 2006-07-01 |
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I can appreciate the fact that Davis is moving in his own direction but this just didnt do it for me. His style took a complete turn from the trip-hop aspect and presents more conversation filled segments that are rather boring. There are a couple tracks that showcase Shadow's DJ talent and a few other alright tracks but if your looking for endtroduing or preemtive strike you wont find it here.
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