General Article name: Endtroducing.....
Genre: HipHop / Rap Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Island UK Number of tracks: 21 Tracklist LP - 1 1. DJ Shadow - Best Foot Forward 2. DJ Shadow - Building Steam with a Grain of Salt 3. DJ Shadow - Number Song 4. DJ Shadow - Changeling 5. DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like Pt. 4 6. DJ Shadow - [Untitled Track] 7. DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem 8. DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump 9. DJ Shadow - Organ Donor 10. DJ Shadow - Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96 11. DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World 12. DJ Shadow - Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain 13. DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Pt. 1- Blue Sky Revisit)   Tracklist - 2 DJ Shadow - Transmission 2 1:29 DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump 4:04 DJ Shadow - Organ donor 1:57 DJ Shadow - Why Hip-Hop Sucks In '96 0:44 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 5:01 DJ Shadow - Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain 9:24 DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like [Part 1] (Blue Sky Revisit) 6:17 DJ Shadow - Transmission 3 1:11   Description Description

As a suburban Californian kid, DJ Shadow tended to treat hip-hop as a musical innovation, not as an explicit social protest, which goes a long way toward explaining why his debut album Endtroducing... sounded like nothing else at the time of its release. Using hip-hop, not only its rhythms but its cut-and-paste techniques, as a foundation, Shadow created a deep, endlessly intriguing world on Endtroducing, one where there are no musical genres, only shifting sonic textures and styles. Shadow created the entire album from samples, almost all pulled from obscure, forgotten vinyl, and the effect is that of a hazy, half-familiar dream -- parts of the record sound familiar, yet it's clear that it only suggests music you've heard before, and that the multi-layered samples and genres create something new. And that's one of the keys to the success of Endtroducing -- it's innovative, but it builds on a solid historical foundation, giving it a rich, multi-faceted sound. It's not only a major breakthrough for hip-hop and electronica, but for pop music. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Contributors Artist: DJ Shadow Record Label: Mercury Record Label: Virgin EMI