Endtroducing…

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 27 October 2013 - 8:50pm

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Artist:

DJ Shadow

album-ID:

a_141

Nationality:

USA

Year:

1 996

Release-year:

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Track-listing:

Best Foot Forward*Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt*The Number Song*Changeling*Transmission 1*What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)*Untitled*Stem/Long Stem*Transmission 2*Mutual Slump*Organ Donor*Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96*Midnight In A Perfect World*Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain*What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)*Transmission 3

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Nominator:

Bean

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Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

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Short-title:

endtroducing

nominator-ID:

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Meeting-date:

Thursday, 19 December 2013

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Wikipedia-URL:

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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Sampling opus that still sounds ace

Landmark album that still sounds good and not been bettered in the curious trip hop sub-genre. Takes sampling to a high art creating brand new works from exisiting marterial. A far cry from lazy musical thievery.

'The Jimi Hendrix of the sampler' was an apt description.
74

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

It’s not the money

2-6-11-13

10

Ultimately I find this to be one that impresses me more than it moves me. Apparently the first album created entirely from samples, which is quite a thing, I wondered exactly what the process involved was, rather than just enjoying it and not caring.

It is its own thing, which is good, and felt pretty far from rap, hip-hip or trip-hop, any of which it seems to get bracketed with. There are some great pieces created with a lot of atmosphere and force and which are impressive. These pieces in isolation are very striking, well constructed and full of tension and drama but there is scarcely any release from that tension the whole album. There is no break from the grinding pace and dark mood, so probably fails in terms of being a well considered whole, with shape and balance. But certainly great in parts and original with it.
70

reviewed by

Lesley

4-13

6-10-11

I wasn’t sure what to make of this when I initially listened to it. There is a very eclectic mix of genres in the samples used, but I think overall it works and creates its own sound. The album as a whole has quite a dark, haunting feel. I particularly liked ‘Midnight in a Perfect World’ and ‘Changeling’. I generally like ambient, mellow music to work to and I found I could write to this. Some of the songs I felt didn’t work as well were ‘Mutual Slump’ which was a broken up track with lots of noise that I found jarring and ‘What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4) where the ‘oh year’ groaning was a bit too much for me! I think the ‘transmission’ tracks work well to break the album up and stop all the songs just merging and running into one.
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

8

3-4

The idea of this being a wholly sampled album, and one of the first of its kind, is of interest to me having dabbled in sampling myself, albeit at a very primitive level; it allowes me to dream of what I could have achieved had I invested in the more luxurious Akai sampler that this chap uses.

Sampled music can have the pitfall of too much repetition and lack of meaningful song structure. This album is nicely layered with deep, full tones and mostly avoids that, but I do find the pace of the album way too down tempo for my liking. Some of the tracks really grind along, the same harsh snare drums grating away for far too long. It's an album best enjoyed at a low level lounge environment, a decent conversation backdrop, but not one that works at louder volumes with intense listening.

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