Private Press

I dont always want to hear rap music with lyrics, sometimes I just wanna hear the beats of good old hip hop. This provides perfectly. Also like Ninth Wonder; just harder to find.

I ordered The Private Press but got Dusty in Memphis [Half-Speed Master], even when the sticker outside the box said Private Press. Anyways, I decided to keep it and reorder The Private Press. Now I wonder if DJ Shadow has ever sampled Dusty Springfield. That would bring this mix-up full circle.

I've been hunting to get this album on vinyl for a while, and was stoked to see it on Amazon for a decent price. Try finding this anywhere else for a decent price... spoiler alert, you can't. If Amazon has it for a good price, snatch it quick!

First off I received the wrong CD in the correct sealed case . Somebody either made a mistake or is intentionally scamming people. The CD they sent sucked. I ended up just downloading and burning DJ Shadow Private Press. I love theAlbum! Good music! 5 for the downloaded album, 0 for the company I ordered from.

In perfect condition. Super happy with this purchase.

DJ Shadow never repeats himself, and why would he? He is not shooting for the masses, just the huge mass of subjects the master so deservedly rules. Record collectors, Hip Hop Heads who like the music denser, thicker, fans of ambient, all kinds of people-music people.This guy had 60,000 lps in 2005. God knows the tally now. Most music collectors are frustrated musicans. He is a quintessential one. But aside from the fact that he is rich and famous and massively talented, he still wears his hooted sweat, and combs the record shops.No reality TV show, no Gucci shoes, no tabloid sports cars. We all want to be him, but plus a few bucks and a few pieces of vynal he IS us.So the music on Private Press is really no suprise. After the ambient step forward--for music, not Shadow--of Endroducing, the guru wanted to put out an album of songs, just like the albums he grew up hearing. Actually, made FROM the albums he grew up hearing.It's all here and it all works, and works more with each listen. The opening track seems at first like an ambient loop you hear on many electronic albums, but then you hear the drum variations from measure to measure. Then there is a harpsichord--could that be from a Left Banke album, who knows, but I want to buy that too. And what is THAT sound? Where did he get that? The Beatles White Album? A 1980 beta tape he had lying around the house? Who knows.All I know is, like the best musicians, Shadow can make music with a cotton ball, and I would not be suprised if that also was someplace on Pirvate Press, too. Just sounds and sounds and sounds and sounds and more and and more more and more sounds.And frankly, I find myslef listening to Private Press the way I do Revolver or Pepper or The White album or Here Come The Warm Jets or Forever Changes, or........sorry, stop me before I get to fifty pages. Listening, active or passive, brings sounds to the front that were hidden in the back last time. I got this in 2007, and I am sure in 2027, 2057--I'll be 88--I'll still be finding these sounds.The only differance between hearing Shadow as opposed to those classic albums is that, well, his albums are different because the world is different. The culture is now being referanced and not created. But Shadow takes old art, found art, non art, and turns it into high art. The highest."Six Days," creepy, "Mashin On The Moterway," loads of fun. Each track is unique and great and works perfectly on its own terms, as does the album, which would be great from start to end if you had no idea who Shadow was or how he worked.But knowing makes Private Press all the more brilliant.

This s*** is incredible. Giving up the ghost is ephemeral.

a must have.