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The The 4-Track Era: Best of the Original Productions 1990-1992 (DJ Shadow)- Vinyl LP, limited release is NOW SHIPPING! This is a great gift for the vinyl lover in your family!

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While in High School, Shadow saved up and purchased a $300 4-Track cassette recorder. For the next several years, this would be the only method available for Shadow to record, and he made the most of it by committing tons of ideas to tape, several of which eventually saw release: tracks like debut "Lesson 4" for Hollywood BASIC, "The Legitimate Mix" for African MC's Zimbabwe Legit, and part of his Solesides bow "Entropy" were all realized during these pivotal years. Shadow has hand-picked some of his favorite moments and compiled them for this release.

Among the highlights:
-The original "DJ Shadow's Theme," with multiple breaks and cuts colliding for a playful but intricate mission statement.
-The follow-up to "Lesson 4," "Lesson 5" which was intended to showcase 45s only (this is 1991 we're talking about, folks!!)
-"The Source Is Serious Business," Shadow's entry into a (never released) compilation commissioned by the Source Magazine of all "Unsigned Hype" column winners.

Need we continue? This release delivers the most comprehensive glimpse ever into Shadow's early musical ideas. Shadow reports that many tracks have been lost forever (such as "Gangsta Jazz," immortalized over the telephone on a Radio Sole skit), and still more have yet to be located. So with Shadow facing forward, it is unlikely that there will ever be a more definitive document of his 4-Track era than this.

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