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DJ Shadow
XFM Mix (April 2nd, 2002)

Album US 2009 on Reconstruction Productions label
Electronic and Hip-Hop/Rap (Cut-up/DJ, Abstract)

Part of a DJ Shadow Handmade series and it's exclusive to ShopDJShadow.com. Comes in a card sleeve which holds a second inner card sleeve. It also comes wrapped in a plastic sleeve sealed by a DJ Shadow's lightning sticker. The release is hand-numbered and name of the owner is written on the back of the case. No tracklist printed on the record. Release notes from DJ Shadow official website: Doing radio mixes is an honor, but it can also be problematic. “People think DJs can just roll out of bed and do a 30 or 60 minute mix,” Shadow says. “But if you’ve been in album mode, and haven’t been working clubs in a while, it can be a real struggle to figure out what to play.” “I never really worry about the relevance of time, i.e. playing current music,” Shadow continues. “Although I always like to throw enough of it in to show that I can keep up with what’s going on. In this case I felt somewhat of an obligation to cater slightly to English radio sensibilities; a sense I totally abandoned the following year with the Essential Mix (also known as Diminishing Returns.)” After doing a flurry of exclusive radio mixes around the time of The Private Press, Shadow would eventually have to draw the line. “Everybody who had a radio show was asking for mixes, and I would try really hard to give them something quality and unique. But this was also during the era of free-for-all Shadow bootlegging, so I’d do these mixes and then see them on the High Street a month later. The label kept asking why my records weren’t selling like they should, and I’d take them down to the record shops and show them and say, ‘Probably because we’re competing with 20 other Shadow releases!’”

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