....so who else should I be checking out. I first got Private Press and then got Entroducing. I actually prefer Private Press. More into the instrumental hip hop and beats more so than the rapping stuff. Any reccomendations would be great.

RJD2
Diplo
DJ Spooky
DJ Krush

Coldcut/DJ Food Fight/DJ Krush- Cold Krush Cuts/Back in the Base (double mix CD)
Depth Charge- Lust 2 or Spill
DJ Krush- Strictly Turntablized, Krush, Meiso, Code 4109, Ki-Oku (if you like Jazz)
DJ Vadim- USSR Repertoire (The Theory of Verticality)
Wagon Christ- Tally Ho!
The Herbaliser- Blow Your Headphones

Mike Relm
(my brother just burned me a copy of Radio Fryer - som brilliant sampling there)

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher

I am really not up on this genre like I want to be (instrumental hip-hop stuff, I guess?) but I will second DJ Spooky, whose album with Slayer/Fantomas drummer Dave Lombardo has been entertaining me for a couple of months now. Also check out El-P's High Water, which is really more of a jazz album that he cut up as the musicians played, but it's amazing stuff.

Please - more suggestions of stuff like this. I don't particularly care to hear rapping, but I love the music these DJs are putting out.

meaty ogre
koushik
ghost dog soundtrack (the japanese version, almost entirely beats)
madlib's intstrumental stuff (i.e. the beat conductor)
pete rock's instrumental records
jay dee - unreleased : official instrumental series

I didn't even know about that album with Dave Lombardo. The allmusic review sounds pretty interesting. I really like DJ Spooky's older stuff (Synthetic Fury, Riddim Warfare) as opposed to the jazzier stuff he's done lately.

I hear a lot of Tangerine Dream in DJ Shadow, you perhaps ought to check them out. My favourites are Force Majeure and Tangram. It's "pretty".

You'll probably like it then - it's a part of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series, but it's definitely not jazz. And Lombardo's drumming is very tasty.

David Jack

The first album 'Texture Freak' is much better than his second 'Without Vocabulary' though.

Four Tet - Rounds

and for Prefuse, I like Extinguished: Outtakes more than One Word Extinguisher

check out:

Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow- Brainfreeze

one of my favorites- a mix of all funk...

I listened to most of it today. It was decent but some tracks veered a little too much into rap/rock. I really liked the version of B-Side Wins Again with the old PE at the Hammersmith Odeon sirens and shit tho.

seconded! i listened to the second one yesterday, which until right now i thought was his first. DAMN YOU DARRIN now i gotta go track that one down!
also, got yr mix today. righteous.

The Go! Team owes much of its existence to DJ Shadow, I think.

RJD2 is my favorite of the ones listed thus far.