{"id":2483,"date":"2011-10-05T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2011-10-05T22:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:43:31","slug":"dj-shadow-the-less-you-know-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2011\/10\/05\/dj-shadow-the-less-you-know-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Shadow: The Less You Know, The Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 20+ year veteran releases new material on the Verve label.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rather clear that Josh Davis, -DJ Shadow didn\u2019t set out to please one specific group of listeners with his 4th release, <em>The Less You Know, The Better<\/em>, except perhaps his faithfuls. Go ahead play it. Experience somber moments (5,16) moments of solace(10,14) and Shadow\u2019s visceral drive(entirety of album). He hits us with multi-layered and heavy sonic textures (except 5,16), fast break beats, intricate\/variant instrumentation, as well as remaining incessant with his drum tracks.<\/p>\n<p>He goes many directions, spanning the spectrum of the genres, creating masterful compositions and productions and a final product that is anything but confined.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed by\u00a0 <\/strong>DJ VanGlorious<\/p>\n<p><strong>RIYL: \u00a0<\/strong>Cut Chemist, DJ Krush, Realness<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rec: <\/strong>1, 7, 12, 15, 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>FCC Advisory: <\/strong>None<\/p>\n<p><strong>Label: \u00a0<\/strong>Verve<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date: \u00a0<\/strong>Oct. 4 -2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20+ year veteran releases new material on the Verve label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,3230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-new-music-rotation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/index.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}