DJ Shadow

Building Steam With a Grain of Salt

• [sample] 00:00 - Producing... From listening to records, I just knew what to do. I mainly taught myself and you know, I did pretty well. Except there were a few mistakes. But I, uh... I had just recently cleared up, you know, I mean... I'd like to just continue to be able to... express myself, as best as I can with this instrument. I feel like I have a lot of work to do. Still, ya know I'm a student, of the drums and I'm also a teacher of the drums too. hehe...
• [source] - Music Makers - Percussion: LP Record, (CHEV M-21/M-22/M-23/M-24, 1973) Chevron School Broadcast. Voice of George Marsh.

• [sample] 02:00 - What makes Cancer tenacious? The moon rules the fluids including the inner juices of human beings, that which assimilates and feeds the body. So the crab feeds his astral plane, assimilating and distributing all he receives slowly, until it becomes a part of him.
• [source] - Signs of the Zodiac: Cancer (Mort Garson) A&M Records SP-4214

Changeling/Transmission 1

• [sample] 07:31 - This is not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one nine.
• [source] - Prince of Darkness: (John Carpenter, 1987) Voice of mysterious transmission reocurring throughout the film. Speaker unknown, Do you know?

Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2

• [sample] 04:25 - I say parking tickets? you're crazy! I don't... He says well, they have some outstanding warrants left on you, and they want to just solve them you know, whatever it'll be. So they take me in on a chain to Long Beach. And now they lock me up in the cell behind the courtroom in Long Beach, while I'm awaiting to be heard on my traffic offences! parking tickets! And I panicked, I'm thinking, oh my god, man, while I'm here, you know, holding me, actually what's to stop them? I mean what's really to stop them? oh, I assumed that maybe some day my mother would realize that I should have gotten out! But ah, she was nice, she would have known but still, what's to stop them? And I'm panicking... And finally they call me...Sorry, Oh my god...I am... Scared.
• [source] - Murray Roman: (Comedian, 1960's) From "Freedom", the last track on side one of his record "Busted". United Artists Records, Inc. UAS-5595, 1972.

• [sample] 09:07 - This is not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one nine nine.
• [source] - Prince of Darkness: (John Carpenter, 1987) Voice of mysterious transmission reocurring throughout the film. Speaker unknown, Do you know?

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1: Blue Sky Revisit)

• [sample] 06:24 - This is not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one nine nine nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness. This is not a dream. What you are seeing is actually occurring for the purpose of causality...
• [source] - Prince of Darkness: (John Carpenter, 1987) Voice of mysterious transmission reocurring throughout the film. Speaker unknown, Do you know?

• [sample] 07:05 - It is happening again. It is happening again.
• [source] - Twin Peaks: Season 2, "Lonely Souls" (TV, 1990) Carel Struycken (as the Giant)