#DJShadow’s not about to slap his face on an album cover and call it a brand. He’d rather rummage through old 8-tracks like forgotten diaries, drag Timothy Leary into a track, and remind you that The Mountain Will Fall only because he lets it.
“If your music becomes backward-looking, that’s when people start complaining about ageism,” he says. And yet here he is, living proof that sometimes the past is just raw material for the next wave.
https://www.lpm.org/music/2016-08-21/dj-shadow-the-past-is-seductive