
If a sample is well-recorded and minimally processed, no-one might notice that it is a sample.

The sampler is an instrument offering virtually unlimited sonic possibilities, and yet, it presents few sonic characteristics of its own. which got a half-speed remastered 25th anniversary edition last month, was composed completely from samples, a methodology shared with DJ Format’s latest LP from 2021 Devil’s Workshop. Format and Shadow, however, are at either end of a 25 year continuum of atmospheric instrumental beats. Brighton and Sacramento not the first urban centers you think of in relation to groundbreaking hiphop production.

DJ Shadow (aka Josh Davis) is a hiphop DJ and producer from Sacramento, California. DJ Format (aka Matt Ford) is a hiphop DJ and producer from Brighton, England.
