The Private Press

The Private Press is the second studio album by American music producer DJ Shadow. It was published in 2002 and therefore only six years after his highly acclaimed debut album Endtroducing ......

About the Album

The Private Press was like its predecessor, produced only with the help of samples. The only exceptions are recorded for Mashin 'on the Motorway votes, the main of them is the rapper Lateef the Truth Speaker.

The pieces Mashin 'on the Motorway and Walkie Talkie were released together as a double A-side. Also animated music videos were filmed for both songs. Another video was shot by director Wong Kar- Wai to the song Six Days. Actor of the video are Chang Chen and Danielle Graham, as a cameraman Christopher Doyle drew responsible.

The song Blood on the Motorway was used in a television commercial for O2 2003. The song Six Days is selected as the intro to Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift.

Reception

Reviews

The critical review of The Private Press was mostly positive. The Metascore the album is 81 out of 100.

The cultural magazine Intro sees the work is a departure from the sound and the homogeneity of the pieces of Endtroducing ..... and thinks, one must for the album " take time " it " more often hear " and " soak up " to appreciate it.

The All Music Guide looks in the pieces of fixed income and Giving Up the Ghost the recognizable style of Shadow. The production and stylistic range of The Private Press is just as amazing as the previous album. The album itself is referred to as " classic" and rated four out of five points.

The music magazine Rolling Stone describes the album as very experimental and rated it 3.5 stars out of five points. She criticizes the use of sampled vocals in several pieces, each of them it was worth while to be heard.

"The Private Press is a moody, murky album, by definition, not as groundbreaking or epochal as Endtroducing ... but fascinating enough in its own right. "

Particularly evident compares Pitchfork Media The Private Press with its predecessor, but also highlights the widely differing from that songs like Six Days or Right Thing / GDMFSOB forth. The music website concludes that the album ..... not approach rich in the quality of Endtroducing, but exceeded expectations, which is why they left the work seven out of ten.

Commercial success

The Private Repress

In 2003, the album The Private Repress was released exclusively in Japan. It consists of remixes and B-sides. Five of the pieces were already included on the single Mashin 'on the Motorway / Walkie Talkie. The remix to Six Days with Mos Def, a mashup of Six Days and Walkie Talkie is in the movies Do not hang up! and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift to hear.

The following titles are on the album: