DJ Shadow, “Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain”
May 6th, 2008 !, Q&A“Well hello there little buddy, come on in! What you got there with you? Is that your dog? Guess there’s no reason you can’t have dogs up there on the moon, that’s a pretty good looking pooch. Bet you come back for some more of Dr. Neptune’s Delicious Elixir, is that right? Ha, ha, I knew you would. I’ll get that for you–oh, I see, you figured out where it is, didn’t you?”
spoken by Jack Elam as Charlie in The Aurora Encounter
For years I have been wondering where DJ Shadow got this sample. I would do a search, give up, come back 6 months or a year later, try again, give up, come back and like that. Surely I had not been as thorough as some, but at some point, you have to move on.
So today, I was reminded of Dr. Neptunes Delicious Elixir (that’s another story) and thought I would give the search another shot. (Lately, I have had too much time on my hands–it’s outrageous.)
The stars aligned and I was able to divine the right combination of words to enter in the unforgiving search box, thereby discovering the single bit of elusive information: The Aurora Encounter. It was a post by Kimble14 that gave me the key, then once I had it, it seemed that the information was everywhere: Tribe, Wikipedia, YouTube–everywhere).
Sometimes, it’s just like that, isn’t it?

August 20th, 2008 at 12:42
Wow, I searched for this a few years ago and couldn’t find anything… you made my day man, thanks!
July 4th, 2008 at 16:38
I thought I was alone in the struggle to find the sample. My story runs similar to yours. Had a sweet tooth for some old school Shadow today and was reminded about the sample. Thanks for investigating this!
rock ON
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