Endtroducing.....

Endtroducing.....
Studio album by DJ Shadow
Released	November 19, 1996 (Original) June 7, 2005 (Deluxe)
Recorded	1994-1996 The Glue Factory (San Francisco, California)
Genre	Instrumental hip hop Plunderphonics Trip-Hop
Length	63:27
Label	Mo' Wax/FFFR 124123
Producer	DJ Shadow
Professional reviews
Original Album: Allmusic link Robert Christgau (A+) link Slant link Deluxe Edition: Allmusic link Paste link Pitchfork Media (10/10) link PopMatters (10/10) link
DJ Shadow chronology
Endtroducing..... (1996) Preemptive Strike (1998)
Alternate cover
Reverse cover revealing more of the record store

Endtroducing..... is the debut studio album by hip hop artist DJ Shadow. It was first released on November 19, 1996 by Mo' Wax Records, and later reissued on June 7, 2005 by Island Records. It is noted for being one of the first instrumental albums created entirely from samples of other records. The album received worldwide critical acclaim upon release.

Contents 1 Structure and release 2 Reception 3 Personnel 4 Track listing 4.1 Deluxe edition bonus disc 5 Samples 6 References

Structure and release

Endtroducing..... is structured completely out of sampled elements, including hip hop, jazz, funk, psychedelia, old television shows, interviews and percussion tracks. The entirety of the album was composed on an MPC60, a machine which Shadow would later pass on to Chief Xcel. The album has been cited in Guinness World Records as being the first album created entirely from sampled sources,^{[citation needed]} although the liner notes of the outtakes album Excessive Ephemera note that vocals were contributed in the studio by Lyrics Born and Gift of Gab.

In 2005 DJ Shadow released a "Deluxe Edition" of the album with a second disc containing demos, alternate versions of original tracks, tracks exclusive to CD singles, and a vintage live set recorded on October 30, 1997.

The album's cover depicts Solesides members Chief Xcel (left) and Lyrics Born (right) in Records, a record store at 710 K Street in Sacramento, California.^[1] The K Street location of Records closed in December 2006, and has since relocated to the former Tower Video location at the corner of Broadway and South Land Park Drive.

Reception

NPR included Endtroducing..... in its list of the top 300 American songs and albums of the 20th century,^[2] and Spin placed the album at number 69 in its list of the 100 greatest albums between 1985 and 2005 in June 2005.^[3] In 2006, the album was chosen by TIME as one of the 100 best albums of all time.^[4].

Rolling Stone (1/23/97, pp. 62-63) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "The DJ built songs out of layer upon layer of sampled instruments and other sound fragments, most of which he processed, looped and re-arranged far beyond recognition....funky rhythms that never sound like they've been cut and pasted together."

Spin (p. 134) - "[T]his remains a stone classic, channeling Afrika Bambaataa's genre-splicing, DJ-booth mysticism into a fully realized studio epic..."

Spin (1/97, p. 81) - 9 (out of 10) - "...layers slinky break-beats with sampled sounds--anything from church bells to War Of The Worlds and, egad, Tears For Fears....a cosmic-chamber feel complete with choruses of fallen angels, plucked harps, Mellotron, and cello."

Entertainment Weekly (11/29/96, p. 92) - "Unfolding like a surreal film soundtrack on which jazz, classical, and jungle fragments are artfully blended with turntable tricks and dialogue snippets, Endtroducing... takes hip-hop into the next dimension." - Rating: A-

Q magazine (11/96, p. 120) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "Shadow's brief is to develop a totally sample-based idiom, weaving a cinematically broad spectrum so deftly layered that the sampling-is-stealing argument falls flat."

Uncut (p. 121) - 4 stars out of 5 - "It's an elegy from a vinyl mausoleum, a sonic fiction assembled by a keen-eared archaeologist."

Alternative Press (4/97, p. 70) - 5 (out of 5) - "...an undeniable hip-hop masterpiece....DJ Shadow remembers that sampling is an art form."

Magnet (p. 88) - "An instrumental album entirely composed of samples and influenced by both progressive rock and Public Enemy was, at the time, revolutionary....Still unmatched in its carefree invention."

JazzTimes (4/97, p. 65) - "Some consider...Endtroducing... a broadcast from hip-hop's near future. But that notion ignores how much this disc reaffirms the music's creative roots....Endtroducing is pretty damn good, with Shadow demonstrating an unerring ear for motif and texture, touching on everything from dub to funk to groove-jazz."

Option (1-2/97, p. 73) - "Shadow makes records the way Robert Rauschenberg made his combines: from scraps, pop artifacts, the things other people throw away....While some of his tracks float serenely on a cloud of jazzy phrasing and ambient textures, Shadow always lands on his beat."

Melody Maker (9/14/96, p. 49) - Bloody Essential - "...it flips hip hop inside out all over again like a reversible glove, and again, and again, and each time it's sudden and new. I am, I confess, totally confounded by it. I hear a lot of good records, but very few impossible ones....You need this record. You are incomplete without it."

Rap Pages (12/96, p. 33) - "Innovative arrangements and structures of sound are present here, reflecting a mind that is constantly summoning collage forms."

Mojo (p. 120) - 4 stars out of 5 - "A decade on, DJ Shadow's affirmatory essay on record collecting as a creative endeavour has lost none of its grandeur."

Personnel

• Josh Davis (DJ Shadow) - production, mix, engineering
• Lyrics Born - vocals - untitled track 6 & "Why Hip-Hop Sucks in '96"
• Gift of Gab - vocals - "Midnight in a Perfect World"

Track listing

1. "Best Foot Forward" – 0:47
2. "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt" – 6:39
3. "The Number Song" – 4:34
4. "Changeling" – 7:16
   • "Transmission 1" – 0:35
5. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" – 5:02
6. "Untitled" – 0:25
7. "Stem/Long Stem" – 7:47
   • "Transmission 2" – 1:29
8. "Mutual Slump" – 4:00
9. "Organ Donor" – 1:57
10. "Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96" – 0:44
11. "Midnight in a Perfect World" – 4:58
12. "Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain" – 9:21
13. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)" – 6:17
    • "Transmission 3" – 1:11

Deluxe edition bonus disc

1. "Best Foot Forward (Alternate Version)" - 1:16
2. "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt (Alternate Take Without Overdubs)" - 6:43
3. "Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix)" - 5:14
4. "Changeling (Original Demo Excerpt)" - 1:00
5. "Stem (Cops 'N' Robbers Mix)" - 3:48
6. "Soup (Single Version)" - 0:44
7. "Red Bus Needs to Leave" - 2:45
8. "Mutual Slump (Alternate Take Without Overdubs)" - 4:21
9. "Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)" - 4:29
10. "Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96 (Alternate Take)" - 0:54
11. "Midnight in a Perfect World (Gab Mix)" - 4:55
12. "Napalm Brain (Original Demo Beat)" - 0:35
13. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Peshay Remix)" - 9:24
14. "Live In Oxford, England, Oct. 30 1997" - 12:35

Samples

The following lists some of the songs and sounds sampled for Endtroducing.^[5]

Best Foot Forward

• "It's My Turn" by Stezo
• "Real Deal" by Lifer's Group
• "He's My DJ" by Sparky Dee
• "Poison" by Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo
• "Dynamite" by Masters of Ceremony
• "Cold Chillin' in the Spot" by Jazzy Jay
• "Do or Die Bed-Stuy" by Divine Sounds
• "Party's Gettin' Rough" by Beastie Boys
• "You Can't Stop the Prophet" by Jeru the Damaja
• "Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra, Part 2" by Stanley Clarke

Building Steam with a Grain of Salt

• "I Worship You" by Lexia
• "I Need You" by H.P. Riot
• "I Feel a New Shadow" by Jeremy Storch
• "Soul Food" by Frankie Seay & The Soul Riders
• "Planetary Motivations (Cancer)" by Mort Garson
• "Music Makers: Percussion" by the Chevron/Standard Oil Company of California (1974) From an interview with George Marsh, jazz drummer, percussionist

The Number Song

• "Orion" by Metallica
• "Been Had" by Sapo
• "Breakdown" by T La Rock
• "AJ Scratch" by Kurtis Blow
• "Quit Jivin'" by Pearly Queen
• "Baby Don't Cry" by The Third Guitar
• "8 Counts for Rita" by Jimmy Smith
• "Sexy Coffee Pot" by Tony Avalon & The Belairs
• "Back to the Hip-Hop" by The Troubleneck Brothers
• "Bad Luck" by Don Covay & the Lemon Blues Band
• "Can I Kick It (Spirit Remix)" by A Tribe Called Quest
• "Who Got the Number" by Pigmeat Markham & the B.Y.
• "Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie" by DJ Grand Wizard Theodore
• "Corruption is the Thing/Chrystal Illusion" by Creations Unlimited
• "Flash It to the Beat" (Live), & "Freelance" by Grandmaster Flash
• "Areumdawoon Inhyeong (Get Ready)" by HE 6

Changeling/Transmission 1

• "Soft Shell" by Motherlode
• "Klondyke Netti" by Embryo
• "Invisible Limits" by Tangerine Dream
• "Imagination Flight" by Chaffey College Jazz Ensemble
• "Here Comes the Meterman" by The Meters
• The Dream Message from Prince of Darkness
• "Inner Mood I" & "Touching Souls" by Kay Gardner
• "The Man Who Couldn't Cry" by Loudon Wainwright III

What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4

• "The Vision and the Voice, Part 1 - The Vision" by Flying Island
• "Monica" by The People's People
• "Numbers" by Kraftwerk

Untitled (Track 06)

• "Grey Boy" by Human Race

Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2

• "Love Suite" by Nirvana
• "Tears" by Giorgio Moroder
• "Linde Manor" by Dennis Linde
• "Dolmen Music" by Meredith Monk
• "The Human Abstract" by David Axelrod
• "The Madness Subsides" by Pekka Pohjola
• "Freedom" (spoken word) by Murray Roman
• The Dream Message from Prince of Darkness
• "Variazione III. (Tredicesimo Cortile)" by Osanna
• "Blues So Bad" by The Mystic Number National Bank
• "Oleo Strut" by Steve Drews (as part of Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.)
• "1-800-Suicide" by Gravediggaz
• Background synthesizers from "Blade Runner"

Mutual Slump

• "Possibly Maybe" by Björk
• "Love, Love, Love" by Pugh Rogefeldt
• "More Than Seven Dwarfs in Penis-Land" by Roger Waters & Ron Geesin
• Dialogue from Xanadu (film)

Organ Donor

• "Someone" by Bill & Tim
• "Tears" by Giorgio Moroder
• "PM or Later (Instrumental)" by The New Breed
• "There's a DJ in Your Town" by Samson & Delilah

Midnight in a Perfect World

• "Soul" by S.O.U.L.
• "Outta State" by Akinyele
• "Sower of Seeds" by Baraka
• "Life Could" by Rotary Connection
• "California Soul" by Marlena Shaw
• "The Human Abstract" by David Axelrod
• "The Madness Subsides" by Pekka Pohjola
• "Dolmen Music" & "Gotham Lullaby" by Meredith Monk
• "Releasing Hypnotical Gases" by Organized Konfusion
• "Summer Breeze" by The Isley Brothers

Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain

• "'Pon a Hill" by T.Rex
• "Walk on By" by Joann Garrett
• Dialogue from The Aurora Encounter
• "Moment of Truth" by Charles Bernstein
• "A Funky Kind of Thing" by Billy Cobham
• "Let the Homicides Begin" by Top Priority
• "2001: A Space Odyssey" by The Daly-Wilson Bigband
• "Soul Brothers Testify" by The Original Soul Senders

What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1: Blue Sky Revisit

• "All Our Love" by Shawn Phillips
• "Joe Splivingates" by David Young
• "Nucleus" by The Alan Parsons Project
• "Edge of Time" by Growing Concern
• The Dream Message from Prince of Darkness
• "Voice of the Saxophone" by The Heath Brothers
• Voice of the "The Giant" from episode 14 of Twin Peaks

References