Published
Thu, Apr 26, 2012, 14:00
- The hip-hop innovator will has plans to release a collection of previously unheard archival material.
DJ Shadow will release Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions From The MPC Era, 1992-1996 through his own website.
The California producer and hip-hop veteran is probably best known for sampling other people's work, as on his now-canonical 1996 Entroducing..... album. This compilation, however, will showcase Shadow's earliest experiments with the Akai MPC spanning from 1992-1996, a drum machine that proved an important part of hip-hop history and still has a prominent place thanks to modern producers like Araabmuzik. The tracklist includes an aborted EP planned for a 1994 release called The Gift Of Gab, containing an embryonic version of what would later become "Six Days."
Total Breakdown isn't the first time DJ Shadow has dipped into his own archives; 2008 saw the release of The 4-Track Era compilation, containing Shadow works from 1990-1992. Hidden Transmissions will be released as a CD, double vinyl LP, and digitally, and customers who order through DJShadow.com will be treated to three exclusive bonus tracks. An exact release date is still to be announced.
Tracklisting
01. Intropy (Original Version)
02. Vee In Detroit
03. Dreams Of A Piece
04. The Not-So-Quiet Storm
05. Fast Rap Fanfare
06. Intensely Hitting
07. Mystical With Solo
08. Alright
09. Don't Try It
10. From The Old School
11. Freddi's Popcorn
12. Quickstep
13. Movin' On (Gab Demo 1)
14. Falling Up
15. Mellow But Chunky
16. Total Breakdown (Gab Demo 2)
17. Heavy Mood
18. Affectations
19. Perilous Journey (Gab Demo 3)
20. Aye
21. Brittle But Magic
22. Atmospheric Disturbances
23. Swimming Upstream (Gab Demo 4)
24. Up For Grabs (Outro)
DJShadow.com Digital Bonus Tracks
25. Give Up The Drums
26. Slow Poke
27. Vortex
DJShadow.com will release Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions From The MPC Era, 1992-1996 later this year.