Das Shadow is a band created by Andrew Phillpott, who is known for co-writing with Christian Eigner and

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from

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. Das Shadow started as a production/remix project, remixing for

, Yazoo and

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. The first track and video "Navigate the Menus" appeared at the end of 2008, to some acclaim. They signed their first

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with Zycos/Sony, with the first single "Navigate the Menus" being released on iTunes on 5 May 2009. The track was

remix A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ...

ed by Kap10 Kurt, Filthyboy13 and Raymie Burns. The songwriting was crediting to Phillpott/Eigner. Das Shadow will be issuing their next release on a new

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, We Collect Enemies, created by Phillpott,

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and Glen Brady, better known as DJ Wool. It is a separate label to Elsbeere Recordings, which was created by Eigner, Bamonte and Florian Kraemmer. Their second single, "Slew", was released on 22 March 2010, with the streaming of the

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on their Myspace page a few days earlier. The remixes for this single came from DJ Wool, Jaimie Fanatic and

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. The two singles were re-released by a new label: Music-laden

References

External links

Official MySpace page

Official YouTube channel

Official Facebook page
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