Last night, DJ Shadow celebrated the 21st anniversary of his first album, the very avant-garde Endtroducing…. - being a record composed almost exclusively of samples - a masterpiece of instrumental hip-hop dating from 1996. To do so, he chose the grand yet intimate Roundhouse venue, but most of all, the perfect canvas to display an outstanding visual show. The concert was not only a release-anniversary celebration, it was above all a carrier celebration. Indeed, DJ Shadow sta

I discovered Hiatus on the 16th of April 2011. The night before, I attended Introducing’s tribute gig to DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing masterpiece. At the end of the show, a man (presumably Cyrus Shahrad) gave me a sampler CD that I’d throw at the bottom of my bag before going home. I found that CD the next day when I had forgotten about it, and by means of curiosity, inserted it into my laptop. My jaw dropped at the first sound. Never had I thought I would actually listen to the

It is often hard to trust a band that aims to accomplish the hard task of paying tribute to a master work, or a master itself. It can sometimes even be seen as pretentious. However, when you might never get the opportunity of attending the live performance of a certain piece, you sometimes take the chance on a tribute band… After all, Jimi Hendrix even proved that a cover could be better than Bob Dylan’s original, didn’t he? This is why I took a chance on Introducing, paying