Mixes / Megamixes

Hip Hop Reconstruction From The Ground Up

1991

Bigger Than Life Productions

Artwork: The 8th Wonder

-----

First ever Shadow release. About 20 copies were recorded and sent to various fanzine and underground magazines, the one that got him a column in the June edition of The Source Magazine in the US.

Hip Hop Reconst. From The Ground Up 1½

1991

Self-released

Artwork: The 8th Wonder

-----

Subtitled "Excerpts From The Movement", as his beats were evolving, it was more a beat résumé according to Shadow.

FunkenKlein's Tapes

1991

Self-released

Artwork: The 8th Wonder

-----

Shadow sent several mixtapes to the late Dave "Funken" Klein, back then head of Hollywood Records. He's the man who gave Shadow (the Raptor of Hip Hop) a chance to be revealed.

Track & Beats ('93 - "94)

1994

Self-released

Artwork: The 8th Wonder

-----

In the mid 90s about 60 of those tapes were handed by Shadow to prospective MCs as a kind of portfolio. It contains unreleased tracks and alternate mixes that were meant to evolve.

Mo Wax Headz Tour

1994 Nov. 10

Mo Wax

Artwork: Swifty

-----

Part of a series of tapes created during the first leg of the Mo Wax Headz Tour in 1994, sold in venues after the shows.

The Solesides Crew – Radio Sole 1

1995

Solesides

Artwork: DJ Zen

-----

A Solesides mixtape with several productions an engineering by Shadow.

1997

Mo Wax

Design: Ben Drury

-----

Shadow recalls this mix was longer initially, as Q-Bert had mistakenly been sent DJ Krush records in addition to Shadow’s. Thus the released version is "edited" to delete Krush's material.

Mixes / Megamixes

Hip Hop Reconstruction From The Ground Up

Hip Hop Reconst. From The Ground Up 1½

FunkenKlein's Tapes

Track & Beats ('93 - "94)

Mo Wax Headz Tour

The Solesides Crew – Radio Sole 1

Camel Bobsled Race (Q-Bert Live Mix)