DJ SHADOW (Endtroducing / Quannum Projects) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with DJ Shadow, originally episode 298 from 2019-11-13.
Original episode intro:
"Guess who’s coming… IT’S… Guess who’s coming… IT’S j-j-j-just your favourite DJ saviour / using and confusing beats that you never heard / since / 1990… Ladies and gentlemen, he’ll put a smile on your face like Ultra Brite - it’s DJ SHADOW!"
(* now that is a solid intro).
Original writeup below:
“…Not every musical moment affects people the same way…”
A great rare treat for Shadow heads and crate digging nerds, and those who appreciate a good old fashioned music chat right here, but not only that - of course Pip and Shadow get to some really interesting ground when not dealing with the musical matters at hand, including his growing up in a remote town with limited access to hip hop which leads nicely onto how he eventually did find his way in, which then leads us into the whole Mo Wax side of things where he met and worked with James Lavelle extensively for a contained period (the foundation for which being laid by discovering NME, Melody Maker and also by the very intro of Nation Of Millions by Public Enemy - “LONDON, ENGLAND…!!!”), the Entroducing / Soldesides / Unkle / Brainfreeze eras, dealing with fan expectations and of course being taken out of context in hilarious style, nutritional value of rap from then and now, the current album ‘Our Pathetic Age’ and a breakdown of lead track ‘Rosie’, conjuring live sets and so much more which is all there for you to discover! Such a good one. You’ll love it.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | in MoClue, in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue. It's rewind time and today we're going back to 2019 |
| 0:07.5 | and my chat with DJ Shadow. DJ Shadow is a living legend. And this was the first time |
| 0:14.1 | we'd met or had any interaction so I had no idea how it'd go, but it was an absolute joy. And I think |
| 0:19.8 | you're going to enjoy it. So let's stop messing |
| 0:22.3 | around, shall we? It was at this point, I'd ticked off a lot of the producers on my list because |
| 0:27.4 | we've done Liam Howlett, we've done Fat Boy Slim, DJ Shadow. These are all people who, |
| 0:33.5 | in my like teens and early 20s were the producers, you know, so I was delighted to have this chat. |
| 0:40.6 | Get it in your ears. It's from 2020, no, from 2019, from November 2019. This is my chat with DJ Shadow. |
| 0:49.8 | This piece of faction is the intro to distraction. This piece of action is the intro to the structure. Right. |
| 1:09.4 | Right. Well, I'm rolling and I'm here today with DJ Shadow. How are you, sir? |
| 1:10.7 | I'm good. I'm good. |
| 1:16.8 | You're fresh in the country for a couple of days and then around Europe for a bit, |
| 1:19.0 | while we're still part of Europe. |
| 1:22.3 | So it's a good time to get that promo in one go. |
| 1:29.2 | Are you enjoying the kind of the promo runs and the European press side of things? |
| 1:34.3 | Well, to be totally honest, this is literally, I'm two hours into press on the hour. Wow. Yeah. Like, I'm just starting. Yeah. |
| 1:37.0 | So I think at a certain point, you get asked the same questions and you end up in this kind of, |
| 1:42.1 | you get your talking points down. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, of course. |
| 1:49.5 | And that's a comfortable place, but at the same time it does make it all feel a bit cookie cutter, which is why at the moment we're freewheeling a little bit. |
| 1:55.0 | It's a weird balance, isn't it? |
| 1:56.1 | Because you do get those set sound bites, as you say, that kind of come together. |
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