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DJ Shadow-Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt

Hearing this track for the first time was a pivotal moment in the development of our taste. Maybe it was aged 15 that this realization occurred, that there was a sound out that that encapsulated all we’d ever wanted to hear and everything we’d never heard before simultaneously. The beautiful paradox we’ve just described was DJ Shadow at his finest. Suddenly trip-hop was the past and the future combined. We could hear where we’d hope music to go, but knew Shadow had helped pioneer its path. Lyric-less, eerie, and powerfully foreboding, this track never fails to conjure up the image of the massive clock at the Musee d’Orsay with its hands rapidly spinning backward.

Full steam ahead.