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July 12-18, 2002
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The sampladelic DJ/programmer has become, by proxy, a conductor of mere moments; a button-pushing pastiche-bootlegging editrix with a stylus instead of a baton and a laptop instead of a string section. Say it: No kidding. That almost everyone in your neighborhood does it makes extraordinaires like DJs Shadow (a usual suspect) and Fog (an unlikely vessel) all the more, hmm, extra. Maybe Shadow's long-awaited Private Press (MCA) is no Endtroducing. Even Shadow couldn't stir hip-hop with the same emotional Hammer Horror soundtrack that his seminal debut did. That Shadow (pictured) wouldn't have cribbed Information Society samples (like he does for "Right Thing/Gdmfsob"). You can't go home again, so what Private does is replace the weirdly tender with the attitudinal and willfully fun-finding, replace the '60s and '70s with the '80s (check the "Monosylabik"), add dreary dreamy guitars ("Fixed Income") and make even more mythic the b-boy culture that got him there. For Fog -- lo-fi guitarist Andrew Broder of Lateduster -- sampling seems neither funny nor forlorn.
Rather, on his eponymous debut (Ninja Tune), he seems to use smoldered, smothered sonics and hack-heavy hip-hop as a cathartic tool. Either that, or his ill-willing Oval-ian soundtrack of neurotic noise, gloomy bell-bonging and raspberry spurtings are angrily held below ugly socio-political speech samples and his greasy, nasal raps in order to act in direct discord with his oddly pretty melodies. Here's an idea -- you ask him.
DJ Shadow, Mon., July 15,8 p.m., $20-$22, the TLA, 334 South St., 215-336-2000; Fog, with Sweep the Leg Johnny, Wed., July 17, 6 p.m., $8, La Tazza 108, 108 Chestnut St., www.r5productions.com.
