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Blood On The Motorway and 13. All of the other tracks are great too. I feel as though I listen to this album as frequently as I do my other Shadow albums Endtroducing and Preemptive Strike. You Can't Go Home Again, there two of my favorites. Well worth the money. 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.
The Motorway songs are great with their continuity and soul. I simply couldn't give this album 5 star because of the above mentioned tracks. DJ Shadow quality music with a bit more flair. Giving up the Ghost shows off Shadows beat skills and Six Days has to be heard to be believed. Ahem.Monosylabik and Right Thing / GDMFSOB. Ah yes the Private Press.
I honestly believe the album is appreciated more today than it was upon its' release back in 2002. However, the remaining tracks are excellent. Has it already been 6 years. To this day I have no idea why he did not include the other version of GDMFSOB with Roots Manuva (see the Private Repress). If I could, I would give The Private Press 4 and a half stars. Well it has and the album continues to impress.
This album could've been a masterpiece had it not been for some tracks.
But he ain't all that great either. 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.
Both are built based on instrumentals. 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. Shadow's album The Private Press has contradicting yet very similar aspects in comparison to its predecessor. Immediately following are songs like Giving up the Ghost and Mongrel. Five years following the creation of Entroducing.
You find yourself immersed in hard beats coupled with bits and pieces of unidentifiable music. What I am trying to say is that this album makes thinking natural, it makes listening to music seem natural. Both songs have such heavy beats you find yourself naturally swaying your head to the music. It encapsulates the mind but also gives you ample moments of individual thought. 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 album from beginning to end is a musical journey. However The Private Press unlike Entroducing. My words would do no justice for such songs.
DJ Shadow has again significantly altered the music genre which is known as trip-hop. 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. 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. Both encapsulate the mind through mind altering beats and classic scratching. This song incorporates fleeting music tidbits with a heavy beat which seem to flow effortlessly with each other.
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. 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.
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