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DJ Shadow’s influence looms large

By James Sullivan

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 30, 2012

The sample artist known to his family as Josh Davis has never been hungry for the spotlight. Two decades ago he chose a stage name for himself that still reflects how he feels about attracting attention: He’s DJ Shadow. Cryptic messages abound in the Bay Area DJ’s widely influential catalog, which set a template for instrumental hip-hop with the meditative 1996 debut “Endtroducing. . . . ’’ The DJ’s fourth full-length album, in support of which he headlines the House of Blues Friday, is called “The Less You Know, the Better.’’

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