The Private Press

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The Private Press
Studio album by DJ Shadow

Publication
(s)

June 3, 2002

Label (s) Island / Universal

Genre (s)

Trip-Hop , Hip-Hop , Electro Funk

Title (number)

14th

running time

57:26 min

production

DJ Shadow

chronology
Preemptive Strike (1998) The Private Press The Outsider (2006)

The Private Press is the second studio album by the American music producer DJ Shadow . It was published in 2002 and six years after his critically acclaimed debut album Endtroducing ..... .

About the album

Like its predecessor, The Private Press was produced exclusively with the help of samples . The only exception are the voices recorded for Mashin 'on the Motorway , the main one belonging to rapper Lateef the Truth Speaker .

The pieces Mashin 'on the Motorway and walkie talkie were together as a double A-side released. Animated music videos were also shot for both songs . Another video was made by the director Wong Kar-Wai for the song Six Days . The actors in the video are Chang Chen and Danielle Graham , and Christopher Doyle was the cameraman .

The song Blood on the Motorway was featured in a 2003 television commercial for O2 . The song Six Days is chosen as the intro for Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift.

Track list
  1. (Letter from Home) - 1:09
  2. Fixed Income - 4:49
  3. Un Autre Introduction - 0:44
  4. Walkie Talkie - 2:27
  5. Giving Up the Ghost - 6:30
  6. Six Days - 5:02
  7. Mongrel ... - 2:20
  8. … Meets His Maker - 3:02
  9. Right Thing / GDMFSOB - 4:20
  10. Monosylabik - 6:46
  11. Mashin 'on the Motorway - 2:58
  12. Blood on the Motorway - 9:12 am
  13. You Can't Go Home Again - 7:03 am
  14. (Letter from Home) - 0:57

reception

Reviews

The critical assessment of The Private Press was mostly positive. The album's metascore is 81 out of 100 points.

The cultural magazine Intro sees a departure from the sound and the homogeneity of the pieces by Endtroducing ..... and believes that you have to "take your time" for the album, "hear it more often" and "let it affect you", to appreciate it.

The All Music Guide sees the tracks Fixed Income and Giving Up the Ghost as the recognizable style of Shadow. The production and stylistic range of The Private Press is just as amazing as on its predecessor. The album itself is described as a " classic " and rated four out of five points.

The music magazine Rolling Stone describes the album as very experimental and rates it with 3.5 out of five points. She criticizes the use of sampled vocals in several pieces, each of which is still worth listening to.

" The Private Press is a moody, murky album, by definition not as groundbreaking or epochal as Endtroducing ... but fascinating enough in its own right."

Pitchfork Media compares The Private Press particularly clearly with its predecessor, but also highlights the songs that differ greatly from it, such as Six Days or Right Thing / GDMFSOB . The music website comes to the conclusion that the album does not come close to the quality of Endtroducing ..... , but exceeded expectations, which is why they gave the work seven out of ten points.

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Private Press
  DE 75 06/17/2002 (2 weeks)
  UK 8th 06/15/2002 (4 weeks)
  US 44 06/22/2002 (6 weeks)

Commercial win

The Private Press is DJ Shadow's most commercially successful album to date. It achieved high rankings in many countries, including eighth place in the UK. There the album could only stay in the charts for a week. In the French charts, however, it was placed for ten weeks, with a top position at number 21. The Private Press was the only album by DJ Shadow to reach the German album charts , in which it was placed at number 75.

The Private Repress

In 2003 the album The Private Repress was released exclusively in Japan . It consists of remixes and B-sides . Five of the tracks were already included on the single Mashin 'on the Motorway / Walkie Talkie . The remix for Six Days with Mos Def , a mashup of Six Days and Walkie Talkie, is in the films Don't hang up! and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift .

Mos Def raps on the remix of Six Days .

The following tracks are on the album:

  1. Intro - 1:19
  2. Six Days ( Soulwax Mix) - 5:18
  3. GDMFSOB ( UNKLE Uncensored) featuring Roots Manuva - 6:25
  4. Interlude - 0:20
  5. Walkie Talkie (Extended Radio Edit) - 3:15
  6. Six Days (Remix) featuring Mos Def - 3:52
  7. Disavowed - 4:29
  8. Interlude by DJ Krush - 0:36
  9. Right Thing (Tokyo Ghetto Tech Remix) - 6:44
  10. Mashin 'on the Motorway (Radio Edit) - 2:39
  11. Right Thing ( Z-Trip 'Get the Party Off Mix' in Three Parts) - 6:19
  12. Outro - 0:55
  13. Walkie Talkie (Video)
  14. Six Days (video)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Booklet from The Private Press
  2. ↑ IMDb : Information about the video for Six Days
  3. ↑ List of promotional songs ( Memento from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Metacritic : Collected Reviews of The Private Press
  5. ↑ Intro.de : Review of The Private Press  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , May 29, 2002@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.intro.de  
  6. ↑ All Music Guide : Review by Thre Private Press
  7. ^ Rob Sheffield: Music Reviews: DJ Shadow: The Private Press. Rolling Stone , May 22, 2002, archived from the original on September 25, 2009 ; accessed on July 11, 2016 .
  8. ^ Pitchfork Media : Review of The Private Press , June 5, 2002
  9. ↑ Chart sources:
  10. ↑ Chart tracking by The Private Press in several countries
  11. ↑ DJ Shadow in the Internet Movie Database (English)