Poised on the promise of a brand-new-untitled, full-length LP, ethereal DJ/producer-extraordinarre, DJ Shadow just dropped his first cut in over a year: “Swerve.”  While Shadow‘s forthcoming effort is slated to see the light of day sometime next year, “Swerve” provides a fitting gift for the holidays.

Although gone are Shadow‘s humble-begginings within the realm of transcendent trip-hop, having first carved a name for himself within the pantheon of DJ-heirachy almost 20-years ago amid his polarizing debut: Endtroducing, the present is sound and fruitful.
 Cleverly-discerned under a swelling bass twisted and perplexed around the seething-synths of time-and-circumstance, the track’s vocal-modulation reaches for the sky traversing new terrain.  Banging it’s titular method on the influences of DnB and trap, the technique is an eloquent mesh in the vain of turn-up fashion.

Born Joshua Paul “Josh” Davis, DJ Shadow has been a pivotal figure finely-tuning the art of instrumental hip-hop for almost two-decades now.  Bolstering a staggering record-collection that exceeds 60,000 by sheer numbers alone, the disc-jockey-con-producer harkens back to his roots as a mere high-school student learning-the-ropes on a primitive four-track recorder.  Fervently-busy hitting the grindstone to produce the follow-up to 2011’s excellent: The Less You Know, the Better, DJ Shadow and studio-genius G Jones unveiled their plans as the duo: Nit School Klik back in May of this year under Shadow’s own Liquid Amber Imprint.