DJ Shadow's Endtroducing by Eliot Wilder

Author:Eliot Wilder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2005-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Did you get responses to your demos?

I sent demos to Tommy Boy, Profile and Wild Pitch—and every single demo that I sent out, I got some sort of job. I also sent one to another guy at the Source named Dave “Funken” Klein. He was the main promo man at Def Jam. Initially, Funken Klein wrote for a magazine called Dance Music Report, which was dedicated to club DJs. I liked his style because he was very honest. If something wasn’t good, he would say it’s no good. It’s hard to find people in positions of power who are actually able to exercise their opinion without any risk of political repercussion. When the Source started, he started writing for them because, obviously, it made sense to. He was writing about hip-hop. He was a well-respected guy. It seemed like everybody the world over has been done a solid by Funken Klein, at one point or another. So I sent him a tape. And it just so happened that he had just been asked to start a rap division of Hollywood Records, in LA, which was Disney’s record label, oddly enough. The rap division was going to be called Hollywood BASIC.

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