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    Actress - LXXXVIII (New album)

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    Welcome to LXXXVIII – the ninth Actress album to be created by Darren Cunningham and the very first presentation of Actress’ voyage into luxury sonics.

    A lifetime in the making, LXXXVIII is the culmination of 25 years’ honing mind-shorting, soul-igniting audio infusions for dance floors, rave dens, festivals, and concert hall, and the inaugural vessel for Actress’ cruise into novel strata of artistic influence: the executive suites, yacht decks and private jets of our planet’s ultimate power players.

     

    The fuck is he on about

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    DJ Shadow - Action Adventure (2023)

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    2 hours ago, zero said:

    cool. will give it a shot. not holding out much hope tho. last thing he put out I was a fan of was the Diminishing Returns mix...which was 2003. just about everything he did before that was gold.

    I know he's been discussed on here from time to time over the years. one of those artists that starts strong, then loses their way. the fact that he can't 100% sample anymore like he did in the early years is a big piece of his decline IMO. Cut Chemist said it in that Scratch doc about Shadow having a spidey sense for sampling. that is his talent. once he got popular around Private Press time, he wasn't able to clear samples anymore, because those obscure artists all wanted a much bigger piece of the $. his later output is mostly him making his own beats/samples with rando guest vocalists, and the result was pretty mediocre.

    Yeah this is an accurate take, felt like I've participated in many of these very discussions here over the years, and sometimes I feel bad that I only listen to the older stuff, which is that of a master flexing his craft.  He's actually put out a lot of material worth revisiting, the KMEL/4-Track Era series and the Total Breakdown/MPC Era release are both great, for me (YMMV) they really bridge the gap between the hiphop I was listening to in the early 90s and the places he took things in the later 90s. 

    I'll always love him for endtroducing, brainfreeze, and the time I saw him in Providence on the In Tune & On Time tour.  Fucking killed it in this packed tiny venue that no longer exists, easily one of the best shows I've ever been to.  I'm sure he was doing this at every other tour stop but towards the end of the set he stepped to the mic and did the 2003 version of "omg Providence I had no idea u so awesome I'll definitely be back thru kthnx" and we all go nuts and everybody leaves happy.  A year and a half later the Quannum tour comes into town, different/bigger venue, they're also killing it (RIP Gab), and about halfway thru the MCs clear out to let Shadow and Xcel do some solo & tandem deck wrecking. Lit the whole place up and just after the roar ebbed he leaned into his mic and the first thing he said was "I told you I'd be back, didn't I?"

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