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Album Review: Preemptive Strike

Preemptive Strike
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  • Release Date: 1998
  • Genre: Electronica
  • Label: Mo' Wax
  • Total Time: 61:10

Review

DJ Shadow assembled the singles collection Preemptive Strike as a way for American audiences to catch up on his career prior to his debut album, Endtroducing. The 11-track album contains three new interludes and three complete singles that he released on Mo'Wax -- "In/Flux," "What Does Your Soul Look Like," and "High Noon" -- and a bonus disc, "Camel Bobsled Race," which is a megamix of DJ Shadow material by DJ Q-Bert. Given that Endtroducing was a masterpiece of subtly shifting texture, Preemptive Strike almost seems purposely incoherent, even though the tracks are sequenced chronologically. The jerky flow can make the album a little difficult to assimilate on first listen, but it soon begins to make sense, even if it never achieves the graceful flow of the album. Several of the selections on Preemptive Strike were available in different forms on Endtroducing -- parts four and one of "What Does Your Soul Look Like" are in their original forms here, presented along with one and three, and there's the "extended overhaul" of "Organ Donor." All of these are significantly different than the LP versions, and "What Does Your Soul Look Like" is necessary in its original, half-hour, four-part incarnation. But the key moments are the seminal "In/Flux," which arguably created trip-hop, and "High Noon," the dynamic, fuzz-drenched single that was his first single release since Endtroducing. Those three A-sides are reason enough for any serious fan of the debut to pick up Preemptive Strike, but the B-sides and "Camel Bobsled Race" are equally intriguing, making the package a nice summation of DJ Shadow's most important singles through the end of 1997. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title iTunes Composers Performers Time
Strike 1
Josh Davis DJ Shadow (:26)
In/Flux
...
 Josh Davis DJ Shadow (12:12)
Hindsight
Josh Davis DJ Shadow (6:52)
Strike 2
Josh Davis DJ Shadow (:15)
What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 2
Josh Davis DJ Shadow (13:51)
What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 3
Josh Davis DJ Shadow (5:12)
What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4
Josh Davis DJ Shadow (7:12)
What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1
...
 Josh Davis DJ Shadow (6:21)
Strike 3 (And I'm Out)
Josh Davis DJ Shadow (:26)
High Noon
Ernie Orosco, Josh Davis DJ Shadow (3:57)
Organ Donor [Extended Overhaul]
...
 Josh Davis DJ Shadow (4:26)

Credits

DJ Shadow (Main Performer)
 
Wikipedia: Preemptive Strike (album)
Preemptive Strike
Preemptive Strike cover
Compilation album by DJ Shadow
Released January 13 1998
Recorded 1991–1997
Genre Hip hop
Trip-Hop
Acid rap
Length 61:11
Label Mo'Wax
Producer DJ Shadow
Professional reviews
DJ Shadow chronology
Endtroducing.....
(1996)		 Preemptive Strike
(1998)		 The Private Press
(2002)
Alternate cover
Japanese album cover
Japanese album cover

Preemptive Strike is a retrospective compilation album of DJ Shadow's singles released on the UK record label Mo'Wax between 1991-1998.

Personnel

  • Josh Davis - production, mixing, engineering

Track listing

  1. "Strike 1" – 0:26
  2. "In/Flux" – 12:12
  3. "Hindsight" – 6:52
  4. "Strike 2" – 0:15
  5. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)" – 13:51
  6. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)" – 5:12
  7. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" – 7:12
  8. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)" – 6:21
  9. "Strike 3 (And I'm Out)" – 0:26
  10. "High Noon" – 3:57
  11. "Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)" – 4:26

Additional releases

When Preemptive Strike was first released, it included a bonus track on a second disk. It featured DJ Q-Bert in a megamix entitled, "Camel Bobsled Race (DJ Shadow Megamix)".

Preemptive Strike was also released in Japan under the Toy's Factory label (Catalog number: TFCK-87954). It included two bonus tracks not released on the U.S. version, "The Number Song (Cut Chemist Remix)" and a remix of Depeche Mode's "Painkiller (Kill The Pain Mix)". It also had a different album cover.

On the vinyl release, Strike 1, Strike 2 and Strike 3 were removed, leaving the album with:

  1. Influx
  2. Hindsight
  3. High Noon
  4. Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
  5. What Does your soul look like (part 2)
  6. What Does your soul look like (Part 3)
  7. What Does your soul look like (Part 4)
  8. What Does your soul look like (Part 1)

Samples

In/Flux

  • "Listen" & "Part-e,s" by The Watts Prophets
  • "Energy" & "Bad Tune" by Earth, Wind & Fire
  • "Footprints" by A Tribe Called Quest
  • "Number One" by Jimmy Smith
  • "Carry On Brother" & "Turbulence" by Eddie Harris
  • "Never Can Say Goodbye" by David T. Walker
  • "Howling For Judy" by Jeremy Steig
  • "Twinkles" by Chase
  • "Good Old Music" by Funkadelic
  • "Discovery" by Alan Ross
  • "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac" by Dizzy Gillespie
  • "Music Man" by Abel
  • "New York City: The Bitter End" by Franklin Ajaye
  • "Chippin" by Melvin Van Peebles
  • "The Loud Minority" by Frank Foster
  • "De System" by Mutabaruka
  • "Social Narcotics" by Bama The Village Poet
  • "Souled Out" by James Wesley Jackson

Hindsight

  • "The Landlord" by Al Kooper
  • "We Live In Brooklyn Baby" & "He's A Superstar" by Roy Ayers
  • "Mahdi (The Expected One)" by Tower of Power
  • "Barnes Shoots Elias" from the soundtrack to "Platoon" by Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
  • "Hot Rock Soundtrack" by Quincy Jones
  • "the tracks go off in this direction" from the movie, Star Wars

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)

  • "Edge Of Time" by The Growing Concern
  • "War of the Gods" by Billy Paul
  • "Girl on the Moon" by Foreigner
  • "Shelly's Blues" by Drum Session
  • "Webb of Jim Collage (MacArthur Park/Yard Went On Forever)" by Mystic Moods
  • "The Yard Went on Forever" by Richard Harris
  • Spoken words from the movie "Brainstorm"
  • Spoken words from the movie "Johnny Got His Gun"
  • Spoken words and sound effects from George Lucas' "THX 1138"

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)

  • "Twin City Prayer" by Hollins and Starr
  • "It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps
  • Spoken words by William Hurt from the movie "Altered States"

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)

  • "The Vision and the Voice Part 1 - The Vision" by Flying Island

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)

  • "The Voice Of The Saxophone" by Heath Brothers
  • "All Our Love" by Shawn Phillips
  • "Edge Of Time" by The Growing Concern
  • Spoken words by William Hurt from the movie "Altered States"

High Noon

Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)

  • "Tears" by Giorgio
  • "Judy Goes on Holiday" by Supersister
  • "Change le Beat" by B-Side & Fab Five Freddy

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