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THE HIDDEN TRANSMISSIONS TIME CAPSULE
Notes, photographs and archival rarities from DJ Shadow’s MPC era.

It’s important to revisit where you’ve been,
so that you can determine where to go.
DJShadow

About DJ Shadow
DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) is an American music producer,
DJ and songwriter, and an influential force for change
in music. He helped pioneer the development of
instrumentalhip hop, and paved the way for
the current electronic music scene.
He grew up making and breaking beats. He founded his
own label, Solesides, in college. He began releasing the
Hip-HopReconstruction mix tapes in 1991.
And with the critically-acclaimed Endtroducing...
he showed the world what was possible with sound,
releasing the first album constructed entirely from
samples. Since then,he’s toured the world, released
countless albums and worked on countless
collaborative projects with artists from Blackalicious
and Q-Tip to Cut Chemist and Thom Yorke.

About Total Breakdown:Hidden Transmissions from
the MPC Era, 1992-1996
In 1992, there were records, real DJs and real hip hop. There was no Auto-Tune. There was one
man and an Akai MPC. Hidden Transmissions is anarchival project documenting DJ Shadow’s early
production days. It’s an insider’s guide to unreleased collaborations. Included on the project are
instrumental tracks from an aborted 1994 EP planned withThe Gift of Gab (Blackalicious),
featuring the original demo of what would eventually become “Six Days.” Find out how it all began.
Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions From The MPC Era, 1992-1996is now available on CD,
double-vinyl, and download formats on djshadow.com.

Sampling in itself, to me,
is a discipline and a language
that is endless.

Studio Environment, October 1993Studio Environment, March 1996

It was sorta my mission statement
or manifesto which was just: hip-hop
reconstruction from the ground up.

DJ Shadow at work, March 1996

In the lab, Asia...