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DJ ShadowThe Less You Know, The Better

Label:

Island Records – B0016088-02

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

US

Released:

Genre:

Electronic, Hip Hop, Rock

Style:

Instrumental, Trip Hop, Experimental

Tracklist

1Back To Front (Circular Logic)2:05
2Border Crossing3:36
3Stay The Course
Rap [Featuring]Posdnuos, Talib Kweli
3:38
4I've Been Trying3:13
5Sad And Lonely3:11
6Warning Call
Vocals [Featuring]Tom Vek
3:31
7Tedium2:27
8Enemy Lines
DrumsStanton Moore
5:23
9Going Nowhere0:29
10Redeemed4:27
11Run For Your Life3:26
12Give Me Back The Nights3:56
13I Gotta Rokk6:30
14Scale It Back
DrumsStanton Moore
Performer [Featuring]Little Dragon
4:18
15Circular Logic (Front To Back)4:55
16(Not So) Sad And Lonely
Remix, Producer [Additional]Express Rising
4:30
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Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured ByThe Verve Music Group
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Universal Island Records Ltd.
  • Copyright ©Universal Island Records Ltd.

Credits

  • A&RRoss Allen
  • ArtworkTony Papesh
  • ManagementJamal Chalabi
  • Mastered ByJohn Dent (tracks: 1 to 3, 6 to 9, 11 to 16), Tim Young (tracks: 4, 5, 10)
  • Mixed ByJim Abbiss (tracks: 4 to 6, 8, 10, 13 to 16), Mikael "Count" Eldridge* (tracks: 1 to 3, 11)
  • Mixed By [Assistant]Brett Lind (tracks: 6, 8, 14), Rick Vargas (tracks: 4 to 6, 10, 13, 16)
  • Producer, Arranged By, Scratches, Mixed ByDJ Shadow

Notes

℗© 2011 Universal-Island Records Ltd., a Universal Music Company.
Manufactured by The Verve Music Group, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 6 02527 73026 4
  • Barcode (String): 602527730264
  • Matrix / Runout: DIDX-773231 1
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPI L329
  • Mould SID Code: IFPI 50A2

Other Versions (5 of 19)

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Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear
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The Less You Know, The Better (CD, Album, Gatefold)Island Records2781475Europe2011
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The Less You Know, The Better (CD, Album)Island Records2773026Europe2011
ザ・レス・ユー・ノウ・ザ・ベター (CD, Album)Island Records, Island RecordsUICI 1097, UICI-1097Japan2011
The Less You Know, The Better (Deluxe Edition) (19×File, Album, AAC, 256 kbps)Island Recordsnone2011
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The Less You Know, The Better (2×LP, Album, Gatefold, 180g)Island Records2774212UK, Europe & US2011

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Reviews

  • unkle1's avatar
    unkle1
    If you're new to this album & are not a fan of it but want to be cos you love shadow, then trust me, give it a few proper listens & it will grow on you. This is pure genius, almost more mature than his early work. Really easy to see why he's the best in the world at what he does. This album is sooo shadow! His trademark sounds are all over this one right from the word go. It's also much more of an emotional journey than his early stuff that was great but very much 'Neutral'. There really is something for everyone on here. Scale it back is beautiful & compelling. It's almost like the early 'Bent' work with the violin synths and sweeping melodies. Redeemed is another really melodic track with nice female volcals, signiture trip hop beat going on too. I've been trying, Sad & lonely, Give me back the nights and Enemy lines are slow & deep tracks but they slot into the album perfectly. Warning call, Border crossing & I gotta rok are much heavier and rock like than anything we've heard previously, but still masterful. I gotta rok shows us that there is no end to his talent, how he finds it easy to keep a progressive beat going but then deviate into thrash/metal and then come right back to the original beat, then heavy again then back and so on.... shame about the last 90 seconds or so, think it should have ended before putting that bit in! Keeping the shadow vibe going are further instrumental tracks - Tedium & Run for ur life. Finishing off with a very interesting sampling frenzy in Front to back. If this is the grand finale of Shadows career as a sampler & trip hop DJ then it's a dam fine one and one that should be celebrated. Sounds like he's moving on to different things which I'm sure will also be great but it won't match this & his early music. Long live the sample king!

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