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• Duman - Inspiring Turkish rock
  8 June 2008, by Paul Kirkness

  Assiduous readers will have noticed your reviewer’s sudden obsession with Turkey. I work in bursts and after my interest in Greek pop-rock, I decided I should enter the world of Turkish rock. After falling in love (almost literally) with singers like Sevval Sam and Sezen Aksu - who possess truly unique voices - I decided to examine the world of rock n’ roll a little more closely... It was my greatest pleasure to discover a really great band: Duman.
  Let us start with the beginning... What (…)

• DJ Shadow - Our favourite DJ saviour [part 2 : Collaborations]
  23 January 2006, by arthur, David Charlot

  The first part of this review was dedicated to show DJ Shadow as a stand alone artist... This second part should reveal Shadow’s ability to collaborate with artists of his own genre, eg. Cut Chemist, as well as with seemingly musically distant artists such as Thom Yorke from Radiohead.
  Drum roll... after waiting for more than a year for this review, here it is finally!
  All right stop, Collaborate and listen "Shadow’s" back with his brand new edition! Collaboration... Even before surfing (…)

• DJ Shadow - Our favourite DJ saviour [part 1 : The musician]
  14 July 2004, by arthur, David Charlot

  Where should I start endtroducing this shadowy yet bright creative composer ? Here in France who knows about my favorite DJ Savior except the underground circles of what they call "abstract hip-hop" ? Just a few fans of the Quannum crew or Sole Sides listeners... Well the man doesn’t want to be part of the mainstream anyway, but then who would ?
  INTRODUCTION
  The Shadow, aka Josh Davis, is prolific, avant-gardiste, savior of hip-hop... a genius and musik-art maker.
  The man works with (…)