DJ Shadow / Me & You – By Patrick Syms

Next month, Josh Davis aka DJ Shadow is reissuing his groundbreaking Mo Wax singles as a lavish boxset. Those records made a huge impression me, so I polled the rest of the Ban Ban Ton Ton writing team, to see if they had experienced something similar. Here, Patrick Syms shares a few memories around 1993’s “Hindsight”. Pukka prose by Patrick Syms. In the corporate world you inevitably find yourself in big meetings designed to establish some facade of consensus among a disparate group of people who don’t know each other and have little interest in getting along. Whatever your version is called – workshop, working session, breakout – they usually begin with some sort of ice-breaking exercise in which everyone introduces themselves. A hackneyed but frequent choice is to ask attendees to describe themselves in three words. This was particularly popular when I worked in New York. I used to fantasise about pulling the pin on a little sarcasm grenade. A dose of self-recrimination for…