Mondays are mad hectic for me, so all I’m gonna do here is cut and paste this press release for a show that will interest many of you, if I may make a brazen assumption: DJ Shadow with Lateef at Showbox, Sept. 20. Tix go on sale Friday Aug. 11 at noon. Shadow’s forthcoming album, The Outsider, has been getting much hype about its hyphy-ness (see the cover story of the new Urb). I haven’t heard it yet (if you have, let us know what you think), but am very curious.

More info after the jump.

DJ SHADOW
With special guest
LATEEF
SEPTEMBER 20, 9PM
SHOWBOX

"I'm sure you're probably thinking, 'Yeah, something's changed with him'," says Josh "DJ Shadow" Davis as he explains the life-changing journey he's been on since his last album, The Private Press, was released in 2002. That the change has been dramatic is evident on even the briefest of exposures to The Outsider, his fabulous, fascinating, fire-breathing third album. Working with several vocalists and in styles spanning everything from hyphy, the Bay Area's newest hip hop hybrid, to folk; from aggressive hardcore rock to left-field alternative dance music, the album is an almost schizophrenic collection from an artist to whom loving music and making music are just two sides of the same coin. Long-term fans need have nothing to fear -- his power to conjure and affect an emotion by over-laying samples, voices and fragments of long-forgotten recorded dialogue remains undimmed -- but the sense here is that, at last, this is the real Shadow, in the raw. It sounds and feels, simply, like the record he's been yearning to make. The record was put together from disparate elements over nearly three years. Artifact (Instrumental) is a relic of Shadow's work on an abandoned solo LP by former Rage Against The Machine front man Zack De La Rocha. 3 Freaks, which features the hyphy emcees Keak Da Sneak and Turf Talk, was the impetuous, inspired result of Shadow's love-at-first-listen affair with the Bay's answer to crunk. Seein' Thangs, featuring Mississippi's finest, David Banner, was supposed to include a rap by Mystikal, but he was in prison: so was Shadow's second choice, Pastor Troy. By the time Davis went back to Banner to ask him to add a second verse, Katrina had devastated America's southern shores, a disaster that couldn't help but color Banner's rap. Outside the records Shadow has contributed to as a recording artist, he has built an enviable rep as a mixtape DJ and curator of an idiosyncratic musical archive. The all-45 mixes Brainfreeze and Product Placement, with his friend and fellow producer-DJ Cut Chemist, revolutionized the art of funk DJ-ing and had a massive impact on the obsessive world of funk collecting, while his Schoolhouse Funk compilations have rescued some amazing slices of that most elusive of musical genres -- high school marching band funk -- from history's trash can.

Tickets are $30.00 plus applicable service charges and go on sale Friday, August 11 at
Noon and are available online at ticketswest.com or hob.com, all TicketsWest outlets, including Rudy's Barbershops and select QFC Food Centers, or charge by phone at (800) 992-TIXX [8499]