"When you’re crate digging, you’re not trying to find copies of Thriller," says Oliver Wang, the scholar, DJ, and journalist best known for books like Legions of Boom and the music blog Soul-Sides, a decade-plus-old site that shines new light on obscure foreign records and waxes philosophical about canonical artists such as Curtis Mayfield.Īs was the case with many in his age group, Wang’s point of entry into mainstream music was the hip-hop of the late ’80s and early ’90s - the era typically referred to as the genre’s Golden Age. But 15 years after the film’s release, as the internet has changed the ways in which people consume not only vinyl but music itself, does that statement hold true? In a post-Spotify, post-YouTube world, one in which record sales are driven by eBay and the designed scarcity of Record Store Day reissues, is there still room for the crate digger?
Our Pathetic Era arrives via Mass Appeal Records.
and at link in bio.Ī post shared by DJ Shadow Official on at 6:02am PDT Yet, always there is light in darkness, and that's the energy I have sought to harness." The double-album, 'Our Pathetic Age' out November 15. As an artist, I feel an obligation to interpret the world around me, and there's no denying that these are times fraught with angst and pain. "Despite the title, 'Our Pathetic Age' is a hopeful, vibrant album.
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