• Artist: DJ Shadow
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• Styles: Turntablism, Ambient Breakbeat, Hip-Hop
• Track Picks: "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt," "Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2," "What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4"
• Similar Albums: Increase the Beats: Big Beat Across America, (Don't Fear) The Reaper, Pop Fiction, New Crime Jazz, DJ-Kicks, Loops of Fury, Nearly God, Hypnotic State [C&S], Ambient Extractions, Vol. 2

Review

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, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	iTunes	Composers	Performers	Time
Best Foot Forward		Josh Davis	DJ Shadow	(0:48)
Building Steam with a Grain of Salt		Jeremy Storch	DJ Shadow	(6:41)
The Number Song		Josh Davis	DJ Shadow	(4:38)
Changeling/Transmission 1	...	Peter Baumann, Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke	DJ Shadow	(7:51)
What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4		Flying Island, Josh Davis	DJ Shadow	(5:08)
[Untitled Track]	...		DJ Shadow	(0:24)
Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2	...	Patrick Campbell-Lyons, Alex Spyropoulos	DJ Shadow	(9:22)
Mutual Slump		Björk, DJ Shadow	DJ Shadow	(4:03)
Organ Donor		Josh Davis	DJ Shadow	(1:57)
Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96		Josh Davis	DJ Shadow	(0:41)
Midnight in a Perfect World		Pekka Pohjola	DJ Shadow	(5:02)
Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain	...	Josh Davis	DJ Shadow	(9:23)
What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1: Blue Sky Revisit	...	Jimmy Heath	DJ Shadow	(7:28)

Credits

DJ Shadow (Producer), DJ Shadow (Engineer), DJ Shadow (Main Performer), DJ Shadow (Mixing), James Lavelle (A&R), Barney Bankhead (Photography), Will Bankhead (Design), Will Bankhead (Photography), Will Bankhead (Cover Design), Ben Drury (Design), Ben Drury (Cover Design), Automater (Assistant Engineer)