On Wednesday night I went to Electric in Brixton for the first time to see DJ Shadow not for the first time.
Its now 20 years since his debut "Entroducing" was released, but the focus tonight was on his latest album "The Mountain Will Fall".
He arrived on stage and described his latest effort as being a fresh approach. As usual he had the visuals on in the background, the problem was the venue wasn't really suited to them as they weren't high enough to see properly.
Another issue with the venue was it was far too hot, it was like walking into an oven on arrival before most of the crowd got there. Fortunately because DJ Shadows music is generally quite slow you don't have to move quite as much when dancing to it. You could even tell DJ Shadow himself was feeling the heat on the stage by himself.
When playing tracks from "Entroducing" the crowd would get lifted like you would expect. For me though the highlight was when he played "Nobody Speak" from his latest album following a bit of a political rant he made prior to it. He then followed up with some material from Entroducing.
Overall a good performance, not too keen on the venue though.
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