Live, DJ Z-Trip infringes copyrights like nobody's business. He's won over
turntable heads and jam band fans with his genre jumping mash-ups and his
most influential moments have come in the form of MP3s that are traded
well below the RIAA's radar. So how does a swashbuckling bootlegger of a
DJ release an album on a major label? By declaring himself a "producer"
and brewing up new tracks. But Z-Trip has a secret up his sleeve, he's a
great producer and able to celebrate the music he usually bites by
capturing the spirit rather than just copying it. Shifting Gears is a
reminiscing album that is love with a time when break-dancers and b-boys ruled and living without your Adidas was just impossible. There's plenty
of breakbeats, vocoders, and "to the beat y'all"'s, but the
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