A Message From DJ Shadow About The Upcoming Year

Hello all. The tour, which I was afraid would never see completion, has finally run its course. I would just like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who came to see me play over the last five years. It was a massive undertaking that took me around the world many times over, and I couldn’t be more proud of the program of music I was able to perform night after night...definitely one of my favorite shows that I’ve assembled. I hope you agree. But all good things must come to an end, and now it’s on to the next.

I have always prided myself on looking forward, especially in my music. But 2025 and 2026 will see me occupying my time doing something I very rarely have done in my life: looking backward. What does that mean? Well, it means taking stock. Cleaning up. Organizing. Archiving. Piecing together puzzles from my past. I spent over thirty years running and gunning, never standing still...boxing everything up and putting it away to be addressed another day. Well, that day has come, and now it’s time to unbox, while I still have access to everything and can mostly remember what, and where, everything is.

The end result will be, I believe, the definitive retrospective of my career; multifaceted, multi-media, and all-encompassing. But it will take time...lots and lots of time. As such, I hope you’ll excuse me if I relieve myself of my social media responsibilities here and there. I only want to do this project once, and to do it correctly is going to take all of my bandwidth. Eventually, I hope to share little scraps of the goodies I find, but for the next few months at least, it’s going to be mostly crickets from yours truly.

I appreciate your patience and support in advance. It’s the right project for me to do, and the right time for me to do it.  Wish me luck.  

With thanks,

-DJ Shadow