While his schoolfriends thrashed away on guitar, Josh Davis (aka DJ Shadow) was
one of the few white kids in 1980s suburban San Francisco to take to the decks,
inspired by the early hip hop of Public Enemy and Eric B. Learning his trade on
University of California radio, DJ Shadow became one of the stars of the
pioneering London label Mo' Wax in the 1990s, bringing together a head-rushing
blitz of different beats, breaks and samples from all manner of genres. His
landmark debut Endtroducing.... (1996) went down in the Guinness Book of World
Records as being the first album to be ...