or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
Sell Us Your Item
For up to a $0.65 Gift Card
Trade in
More Buying Choices
Amazon.com Add to Cart
$9.85  & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
manhattan_m... Add to Cart
$10.86  & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
creativemus... Add to Cart
$14.99  & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Color:
Image not available

To view this video download Flash Player

 

Private Press [Explicit Lyrics]

DJ ShadowAudio CD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (86 customer reviews)

Price: $8.79 & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Only 1 left in stock.
Sold by Politos Books and Fulfilled by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.
Want it tomorrow, May 21? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
MP3 Music, 14 Songs, 2002 $9.49  
Audio CD, Explicit Lyrics, 2002 $8.79  
Vinyl, 2002 --  

Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s

Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or view the MP3 Album.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Samples
Song Title Time Price
listen  1. Letter From Home (Spoken Word) 1:09$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  2. Fixed Income 4:49$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  3. Un Autre Introduction0:44$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  4. Walkie Talkie 2:27$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  5. Giving Up The Ghost 6:31$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  6. Six Days 5:02$1.29  Buy MP3 
listen  7. Mongrel... 2:20$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  8. ...Meets His Maker 3:02$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  9. Right Thing / Gdmfsob 4:20$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen10. Monosylabik Parts 1 & 2 6:47$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen11. Mashin' On The Motorway 2:58$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen12. Blood On The Motorway 9:12$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen13. You Can't Go Home Again 7:04$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen14. Letter From Home (Spoken Word)0:57$0.99  Buy MP3 


Amazon's DJ Shadow Store

Music

Image of album by DJ Shadow

Photos

Image of DJ Shadow
Visit Amazon's DJ Shadow Store
for 37 albums, 11 photos, discussions, and more.

Frequently Bought Together

Private Press + Endtroducing + Preemptive Strike
Price for all three: $30.72

Buy the selected items together

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought


Product Details

  • Audio CD (June 4, 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Explicit Lyrics
  • Label: Mca
  • ASIN: B000067AT9
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (86 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,149 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Countless copycats have landed on the bandwagon since Josh Davis's debut, Endtroducing..., wreaked havoc in the dance and hip-hop world. But Davis, a.k.a. DJ Shadow, kept on top of his game with various collaborations--Blackalicious, U.N.K.L.E., Cut Chemist--and superlative 12-inches like "High Noon" and "Pre-Emptive Strike."

Now, a full six years later, he's back with a follow-up that is every bit as impressive as his debut, albeit in a different way. Once again, the producer has pushed his sampler to the limits, but this time he's brought with it a deeper, hungrier, more bad-ass spirit that's rarely found in modern dance music. There's a fabulous '80s vibe throughout (principally on tracks like "Monosylabik" and "You Can't Go Home Again"), along with the expected forays into b-boy culture (check the growling, massive "Treach Battle Break" and the funky-ass "Mashin' on the Motorway"). While it's identifiably Shadow, it ain't Endtroducing...Part 2. It is, however, a worthy and imaginative follow-up, with humor, wisdom, and musical understanding aplenty. --Paul Sullivan


Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Junkmedia.org Review - You can't go home again ... March 26, 2003
Format:Audio CD
It is incredibly difficult to release a second full-length album and have it make a strong, positive impression after one's debut release is considered a classic innovation. That is exactly what DJ Shadow is facing with the release of The Private Press. His debut release, Endtroducing..., created a genre. It was based in hip-hop, yet dark and philosophical. Endtroducing... scared people because it seemed like many of the records were specters trying to whisper something in your ear. Call it "cinematic hip-hop" or "ominous turntablism;" there was an incredible rawness to it. Edges weren't smoothed out. Sometimes this was intended, and other times it was a result of the artist jumping headstrong into his first major release. The Private Press will not break ground like Endtroducing... did, but it showcases an older, more versatile Shadow, and in many ways it is a better record.

DJ Shadow's style often unfolds like cinema, with many sweeping scenes that ultimately fit together. This causes several tracks to go well over the seven minute mark. These arresting, epic tracks stand out for their originality and amazing production quality. "Monosylabik" is a track that Shadow himself admitted will be hard for many of his fans to grasp, because it is so different from past work. There is a cold, mechanic quality to the different samples that fly at the listener in rapid, dizzying succession. "Monosylabik" is actually made up of several different sections with dissimilar colors; however, they are linked into a congruous whole by the rhythmic cadence that is present in the melody of each part. Even though the song is somewhat segmented, it works well together as a piece of music.

"Blood on the Motorway" has a mystical feel, and, like other songs in his catalog, it shows Shadow's interest in the afterlife as a theme. Envision the journey that might originate from the time a heart stops beating until a bright light of some sort is encountered, and that's where this epic travels. A three-second silence is boldly placed mid-track, separating the instrumental section from the entrance of the vocal. This increases tension to captivate the listener, while adding to the narrative aspect of the track.

Even though he has one of the largest and most varied record collections in the US, Shadow likes to use primarily newly purchased records to construct each of his releases. Since 99% of his music is sample-dependant, whatever genre predominates local record stores at the time tends to define the album's sound. On The Private Press, that sound is heavy in new wave and '80s rock. "Right Thing" and "You Can't go Home Again" are two tracks on which the "me decade" comes through full force. "You Can't Go Home Again" is the most impressive track on the disc, because it is the first lengthy song that does not bog itself down. Several dramatic changes are not necessary to hold interest in the song, and the upbeat, Devo-style bassline commits the track to memory. "You Can't Go Home Again" is evidence that Shadow has matured, as it makes a strong statement ("here's a story about being free") without having to rely on dark timbres or flailing drum lines to drive the point home.

So, does Shadow play hip-hop, or is it merely an influence of his? Many feel that DJ Shadow does not fit into the traditional hip-hop niche well enough to be classified as part of the genre. Some want to make Shadow a turntablist, while others claim he doesn't scratch or trick enough for this distinction and want to place him in a trip-hop category. As The Private Press continues to show, Shadow is trying to innovate and expand the hip-hop horizon. He recently described his record making process to Jockey Slut Magazine, "To me, it's about manifesting my original understanding of hip-hop, which was taking what's around you, subverting it and spitting it back out through a hip-hop paradigm." RZA continues to dip into the Portishead fountain for Wu-Tang samples, and Madlib uses any bizarre sound/audio filter combination that his spliffed out mind can come up with, and this question does not arise with either of them. The hip-hop community should not be asking "Does this fit in?" Instead, it should be embracing releases like The Private Press as an elevation and continuation of the paradigm that Shadow talks about.

There will never be another Endtroducing..., but Shadow has added new shades to his musical palette. He no longer relies on stock tactics such as dry, aggressive snare drums and dark strings to carry many of his songs. There is more sonic variety from track to track, and Shadow has proven he can make upbeat, even danceable, records. Every detail of the release is placed to further the narrative, and the tracks flow well together in the style of a classic rock LP. DJ Shadow can't create a brand new sound with every release. With The Private Press, however, he's shown he can continue to fuse his varied influences to explore the many uncharted territories of hip-hop.

Will Monroe
Junkmedia.org Review

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece No. 2 June 15, 2002
By WrtnWrd
Format:Audio CD
Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow is a pastiche turntablist. His m.o. on the groundbreaking Endtroducing... was the breakbeat suite, mini-symphonies culled from pieces of thousands of slabs of vinyl. He was as meticulous as an animator hand-painting each cell. It paid off. Not only was Endtroducing... groundbreaking in the underground, it was a (relative) commercial success. In the six years since its release, no other DJ or turntablist collective has come close to Shadow's genius. Though The Private Press is a more accessible work they still - to sample that old hack MC Hammer - can't touch this. Davis loves arcana. He opens and closes The Private Press with a recorded spoken letter, over cocktail jazz, from a California family to a friend, and these homey bookends indicate Shadow's new warmth. On the first record, he was showing off (he had a right). On The Private Press, his aim is to communicate as directly and unfettered as possible. The song titles aren't grand metaphors, like Endtroducing...'s "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt", but literal: "Fixed Income", "Six Days", "Blood On the Motorway", "You Can't Go Home Again". His cribbed vocal samples express basic desires, joys, and fears which the music takes to poetic extremes. On The Private Press, DJ Shadow says more with beats, with incisive edits, than most lyricists who split open a vein and bleed on the page.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the 6 year wait June 5, 2002
Format:Audio CD
I picked up "Endtroducing" back in '96, when it first came out, and it quickly became one of my favorite albums. It's been a long wait for a new album ("Preemptive Strike" being mostly older material), and I wasn't sure if it would be able to live up to Shadow's debut album. Fortunately, "Private Press" didn't let me down. It manages to both avoid sounding too much like it's predecessor (like Moby's disappointing "18"), while not venturing too far from what made "Endtroducing" one of my personal favs. One change here is that a few tracks are more traditionally song-based, some with vocals running throughout. But unlike similar attempts on "Psyence Fiction" and some Solesides/Quannum projects, these manage to retain the feel of a DJ Shadow track, while adding something new (6 Days, Mashin' on the Motorway). There's still plenty of classic Shadow epics in here too (Giving Up The Ghost, Blood on the Motorway). All in all, a very satisfying return for DJ Shadow. Hopefully it won't be 6 more years until the next album, but if that's how long it takes to make an album of this quality, I don't mind waiting.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Framed all around a missing X factor
This is the competent though rarely triumphant sound of Davis breaking off fan's expectations gently from his previous accidental masterwork.
Published on August 20, 2010 by IRate
4.0 out of 5 stars excellent
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. Read more
Published on November 23, 2009 by Bill Your 'Free Form FM Print DJ
5.0 out of 5 stars On par with Endtroducing and Preemptive Strike
I feel as though I listen to this album as frequently as I do my other Shadow albums Endtroducing and Preemptive Strike. Read more
Published on June 30, 2009 by KR-8M
4.0 out of 5 stars Knocking on the door of greatness ... but not quite there
Ah yes the Private Press. Has it already been 6 years? Well it has and the album continues to impress. Read more
Published on February 25, 2008 by Jorge Alvarado
5.0 out of 5 stars Sensation's Fix
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 . . . Read more
Published on December 18, 2007 by Mark Champion
5.0 out of 5 stars Mind Shifting
Five years following the creation of Entroducing... DJ Shadow has again significantly altered the music genre which is known as trip-hop. Read more
Published on November 23, 2007 by A. Desmond
3.0 out of 5 stars Lost Abstract
I can appreciate the fact that Davis is moving in his own direction but this just didnt do it for me. Read more
Published on June 30, 2006 by JoMo
3.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating...
I really do like this album. Not as much as Endtroducing, but I'd still give it 5 stars, save one detail. The nifty cardboard two-CD case it comes in has a major flaw. Read more
Published on May 15, 2006 by James K. Bursley
4.0 out of 5 stars crazy
I first read the hype about the endtroducing album on amazon. but my experience with best sellers has not been good especially if they are old. Read more
Published on April 10, 2006 by Naresh S. Jain
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful
DJ Shadow refuses to be labeled, and that is abundantly clear in this album. With elements of every genre under the sun, hip-hop, electronic, and even flashes of ambience to name a... Read more
Published on February 6, 2006 by Kenneth G. Sodergren
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Forums

There are no discussions about this product yet.
Be the first to discuss this product with the community.
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 




What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?



Look for Similar Items by Category

Politos Books Privacy Statement Politos Books Shipping Information Politos Books Returns & Exchanges