>Saw DJ Shadow, James Lavelle & the Psychonauts as part of The Headz II
>tour here in Dublin last weekend. Great show, not as abstract as the
>last time. Mostly all beat heavy hip-hop with a little bit of soul
>here and there , not one jungle tune though! Psychonauts played first,
>4 turntables and some serious mixing & scratching. Then Shadow then
>Lavelle.
I hadn't heard of the tour - does anybody know if it's coming to London.
I bloody well hope it is and I haven't missed it.
I caught DJ Shadow doing a live set at Rough Trade Records a couple of
months back, he was mixing in any records that people got off the
shelves and put in a pile by the decks (people mainly chose Hip-Hop and
Jungle) plus a couple of his own tracks - it was pretty amazing mixing
considering it was completely blind and improvised (mixing many tracks
he had plainly never heard before). Of course as always his scratching
was superb.
I read an interview in Melody Maker in which he said he hated DJing in
public, I guess its a bit dumb of him to put "DJ" in his moniker then.
-- Saul Budd