Japanese Pressing to Contain Two Bonus Tracks: 'red Bus Needs to Leave'& 'in Flux'.
Endtroducing...,DJ Shadow,Import [Generic],Ambient Breakbeat,Dance Music,Electronica,Hip-Hop,Pop,Trip-Hop,Turntablism,Underground Rap
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Endtroducing...
DJ Shadow Manufacturer: Fontana Island ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005DQR Release Date: 1996-11-19 |
Tracks:
- Best Foot Forward
- Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
- The Number Song
- Changeling
- What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)
- Untitled
- Stem/Long Stem
- 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)
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DJ Shadow, a.k.a. Josh Davis, could be credited with bringing newfound introspection to the gloating sounds of hip-hop. Condensed with urban oscillations and scatological beats, Endtroducing shutters with eclectic samples and aural montages that reach beyond the constraints of hip-hop style. Enhancing the mix with fundamentals of rock, soul, funk, ambient, and jazz, the modern fusions fail to go unnoticed, even by the casual listener. While most of the tracks are compiled by layering samples from vinyl treasures found in used-record bins, the production quality of the mosaic is unmatched. Darkened melodies carry throughout the album with its eye on the end of the tunnel. The narration samples come from numerous sources and keep the listener involved and waiting for resolution. With a message as fragmentary as an overheard conversation, Endtroducing conveys no apparent conclusion, but begs the mind, body, and soul for some rewind. --Lucas HilbertAlbum Description
DJ Shadow, a.k.a. Josh Davis, could be credited with bringing newfound introspection to the gloating sounds of hip-hop. Condensed with urban oscillations and scatological beats, Endtroducing shutters with eclectic samples and aural montages that reach beyond the constraints of hip-hop style. Enhancing the mix with fundamentals of rock, soul, funk, ambient, and jazz, the modern fusions fail to go unnoticed, even by the casual listener. While most of the tracks are compiled by layering samples from vinyl treasures found in used-record bins, the production quality of the mosaic is unmatched. Darkened melodies carry throughout the album with its eye on the end of the tunnel. The narration samples come from numerous sources and keep the listener involved and waiting for resolution. With a message as fragmentary as an overheard conversation, Endtroducing conveys no apparent conclusion, but begs the mind, body, and soul for some rewind. Universal. 2004.Customer Reviews:
"The Music Comes Through Me...".......2007-07-06
I try to avoid cliches but sometimes they are exactly that for a particular reason. In other words they're right. Okay, this still sounds like music beamed down from above. It sounds other-worldly, it sounds elsewhere...very, very different.
One of my friends is almost exclusively into dance music, has seen DJ Shadow live, and yet still can't quite get into this. My own take on it is that it's a DJ album you can't actually dance to. I mean you could if you wanted to but that's not quite the point. It's far more important than that.
It's just the sound of it all. And this is bass-heavy sampled heaven. 'Building Steam With A Grain Of Sand' builds to a scenario where it sounds like the tinkling ivories are battling the angels of heaven or your imagination whereas 'The Number Song' sounds simultaneously like it's old school excitement, something approaching the here and now, and the very future. Scratching and the skattering, clattering drums. Just excitement. And things like trying to remember that this is all sampled music. It is not live. Just very much alive. 'Changeling' has swampy drums drowned in some muddy production before it takes off and that scratching arrives followed by that bass and then...
Listening to this now I'm struck by how fearless it is, how it taps into a neglected part of you. How it just is. How I struggle sometimes to believe there could actually be a mass market for this. For something this challenging.
You may want stand out tracks but if that's the case, i think I'm struggling. Music this spontaneous (and yes, I know it isn't and there's the trick, the very height of the artistry here...)washes over you as a whole. You feel it or you don't but you hardly worry about which track you're listening to.
Having said that though, if you did want moments, that tension in music when things just work, then you might, just might go for 'Stem/Long Stem'. It soothes and then it builds and then...
'Midnight In A Perfect World' is possibly the most perfect song title ever but i'm still stunned that the song itself doesn't disappoint. A most mellow start until the drums arrive but then keyboards soothe and soulful vocals double that effect. An undercurrent of scratching and repeated mantra-like vocals. Midnight. Midnight. Midnight.
I'm probably more stunned though by 'Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain'. That bass. That bass...And then those drums. And the spectral keyboards at the end. Where does he get all this stuff from? And what happens next? And it goes without saying that we will never have an inkling as to how he then does what he does and makes it all fit together.
'What Does Your Soul Look Like' is definitely the most perfect song title ever and as a song surfaces twice here. You decide which version you prefer.
When people talk about an album being groundbreaking they usually mean 'worthy' and not necessarily something you'll want to listen to over and over again. This though is groundbreaking in the real, the true sense of the word...things beyond. Just listen and expect to be swept away.
The beginning and the end of something not yet heard.
In Car Freestyle Session Instrumentals (Rating: 9 out of 10- -4.5 stars).......2007-05-20
DJ Shadow really shows the art of turntablism and blending vinyl records and sampling (and I mean at it's best). You really have to understand the type of sound that he is trying to create on every track, and it flows real nice. Most of the track vibe real well, something that a lot of instrumental tracks don't have that much, if at all. "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt" is one of the tracks that flow so easily
There were some tracks that I weren't feeling too much. "The Number Song" really didn't stand out to me because of it's high energy and high live sounding effect. Also, I personally thought some of the songs were a minute too long (mostly those two song in one track songs). At a point, I was like, "Damn, how long is this song???". Also I'm mad that "Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96" is only 35 seconds long. In my opinion, that is one of the best beats on the album. But thats all the bad things I can think of.
"Entroducing..." is one of the best instrumental tracks you'll hear. At a time in '96 when hip hop was changing, this would have been a breath of fresh air to hear (espically when people were starting to loose their origonality). This album blows The Outsider as well as Funky Skunk away. There are no vocals on here, except for the samples. This is just pure music to vibe to real easily. Whether if you're driving in traffic, or chillin' in your bed, or if your preference is jazz, or hip hop, this is one album that you will enjoy. Peace.
Lyrics: N/A
Production: A+
Guest Appearances: N/A
Musical Vibes: A
Top 5 Favorite Tracks:
1. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)
2. Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
3. Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96
4. Organ Donor
5. Midnight In A Perfect World
Endtroducing.......2007-03-26
An Outstanding Album!.......2006-10-05
Sonic Alchemy .......2006-09-01
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Endtroducing...
DJ Shadow Manufacturer: Island ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0009F2C34 Release Date: 2005-06-07 |
Tracks:
- Best Foot Forward
- Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
- The Number Song
- Changeling
- What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)
- Untitled Track
- Stem/Long Stem
- 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)
Tracks:
- Best Foot Forward (Alternate Version)
- Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt (Alternate Take Without Overdubs)
- The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix)
- Changeling (Original Demo Excerpt)
- Stem (Cops 'N' Robbers Mix)
- Soup
- Red Bus Needs To Leave!
- Mutual Slump (Alternate Take Without Overdubs)
- Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
- Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96 (Alternate Take)
- Midnight In A Perfect World (Gab Mix)
- Napalm Brain (Original Demo Beat)
- What Does Your Soul Look Like (Peshay Remix)
- D.J. Shadow Live In Oxford, England, Oct. 30, 1997
Customer Reviews:
A personal Favorite.......2006-09-01
For the record.......2005-10-15
No reason to buy this version.......2005-09-26
In the liner notes, Shadow even says that due to the way he recorded the original there aren't any versions that exist with the tracks separated. You desperately need these separated tracks in order to do anything new and interesting with the remix. By his own admission, these are just some old backups of the almost finished songs. There are also a few half assed remixes, including one of the worst drum and bass remixes I've ever heard. What a wasted opportunity.
The guy's had 10 years to come up with something special and instead he decides to rip off his loyal fans. Trust me, stick to the original one disc version of Endtroducing.
review from Synthesis.......2005-09-22
the soul.
The first disc is a remastered version of the seminal album, and contains the track list from the original UK release, which includes an ambient three-part transmission theme that launches one song to the next. Unless you spent many irie hours studying each layered instrument (which might be the majority of DJ Shadow fans), the revamped version may not seem different; however, the trained ear should appreciate the opened up sound. It was an incredible album out the gate, and this time around it's even better, if that's possible.
Disc number two is where things really get interesting with a collection of remixes, unreleased tracks and alternate takes. For each track off Endtroducing, the second disc offers an alternative such as Cut Chemist's remix of "The Number Song," or the extended overhaul version of "Organ Donor." Some of the more memorable alternates include the Gab mix of "Midnight in a Perfect World" and the unreleased "Red Bus Needs to Leave." As a bonus there is also a 12-minute DJ set recorded live in Oxford. The little quirks in each song will have you listening even closer, while refreshing your interest in the originals.
Not that there was any question, but after withstanding the test of time, Endtroducing can officially be labeled a classic. Eventually someone would have come along and made an instrumental hip-hop album, but Shadow did it first, and raised the bar so high that we'll forever have our hands up.
- Corey Bloom
Synthesis.net
One of the essential albums of the 1990s, if not all time........2005-07-25
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Endtroducing...
DJ Shadow ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000247JJ Release Date: 2004-01-20 |
Tracks:
- 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
Amazon.com
DJ Shadow, a.k.a. Josh Davis, could be credited with bringing newfound introspection to the gloating sounds of hip-hop. Condensed with urban oscillations and scatological beats, Endtroducing shutters with eclectic samples and aural montages that reach beyond the constraints of hip-hop style. Enhancing the mix with fundamentals of rock, soul, funk, ambient, and jazz, the modern fusions fail to go unnoticed, even by the casual listener. While most of the tracks are compiled by layering samples from vinyl treasures found in used-record bins, the production quality of the mosaic is unmatched. Darkened melodies carry throughout the album with its eye on the end of the tunnel. The narration samples come from numerous sources and keep the listener involved and waiting for resolution. With a message as fragmentary as an overheard conversation, Endtroducing conveys no apparent conclusion, but begs the mind, body, and soul for some rewind. --Lucas HilbertAlbum Description
DJ Shadow, a.k.a. Josh Davis, could be credited with bringing newfound introspection to the gloating sounds of hip-hop. Condensed with urban oscillations and scatological beats, Endtroducing shutters with eclectic samples and aural montages that reach beyond the constraints of hip-hop style. Enhancing the mix with fundamentals of rock, soul, funk, ambient, and jazz, the modern fusions fail to go unnoticed, even by the casual listener. While most of the tracks are compiled by layering samples from vinyl treasures found in used-record bins, the production quality of the mosaic is unmatched. Darkened melodies carry throughout the album with its eye on the end of the tunnel. The narration samples come from numerous sources and keep the listener involved and waiting for resolution. With a message as fragmentary as an overheard conversation, Endtroducing conveys no apparent conclusion, but begs the mind, body, and soul for some rewind. Universal. 2004.Customer Reviews:
"The Music Comes Through Me...".......2007-07-06
I try to avoid cliches but sometimes they are exactly that for a particular reason. In other words they're right. Okay, this still sounds like music beamed down from above. It sounds other-worldly, it sounds elsewhere...very, very different.
One of my friends is almost exclusively into dance music, has seen DJ Shadow live, and yet still can't quite get into this. My own take on it is that it's a DJ album you can't actually dance to. I mean you could if you wanted to but that's not quite the point. It's far more important than that.
It's just the sound of it all. And this is bass-heavy sampled heaven. 'Building Steam With A Grain Of Sand' builds to a scenario where it sounds like the tinkling ivories are battling the angels of heaven or your imagination whereas 'The Number Song' sounds simultaneously like it's old school excitement, something approaching the here and now, and the very future. Scratching and the skattering, clattering drums. Just excitement. And things like trying to remember that this is all sampled music. It is not live. Just very much alive. 'Changeling' has swampy drums drowned in some muddy production before it takes off and that scratching arrives followed by that bass and then...
Listening to this now I'm struck by how fearless it is, how it taps into a neglected part of you. How it just is. How I struggle sometimes to believe there could actually be a mass market for this. For something this challenging.
You may want stand out tracks but if that's the case, i think I'm struggling. Music this spontaneous (and yes, I know it isn't and there's the trick, the very height of the artistry here...)washes over you as a whole. You feel it or you don't but you hardly worry about which track you're listening to.
Having said that though, if you did want moments, that tension in music when things just work, then you might, just might go for 'Stem/Long Stem'. It soothes and then it builds and then...
'Midnight In A Perfect World' is possibly the most perfect song title ever but i'm still stunned that the song itself doesn't disappoint. A most mellow start until the drums arrive but then keyboards soothe and soulful vocals double that effect. An undercurrent of scratching and repeated mantra-like vocals. Midnight. Midnight. Midnight.
I'm probably more stunned though by 'Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain'. That bass. That bass...And then those drums. And the spectral keyboards at the end. Where does he get all this stuff from? And what happens next? And it goes without saying that we will never have an inkling as to how he then does what he does and makes it all fit together.
'What Does Your Soul Look Like' is definitely the most perfect song title ever and as a song surfaces twice here. You decide which version you prefer.
When people talk about an album being groundbreaking they usually mean 'worthy' and not necessarily something you'll want to listen to over and over again. This though is groundbreaking in the real, the true sense of the word...things beyond. Just listen and expect to be swept away.
The beginning and the end of something not yet heard.
In Car Freestyle Session Instrumentals (Rating: 9 out of 10- -4.5 stars).......2007-05-20
DJ Shadow really shows the art of turntablism and blending vinyl records and sampling (and I mean at it's best). You really have to understand the type of sound that he is trying to create on every track, and it flows real nice. Most of the track vibe real well, something that a lot of instrumental tracks don't have that much, if at all. "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt" is one of the tracks that flow so easily
There were some tracks that I weren't feeling too much. "The Number Song" really didn't stand out to me because of it's high energy and high live sounding effect. Also, I personally thought some of the songs were a minute too long (mostly those two song in one track songs). At a point, I was like, "Damn, how long is this song???". Also I'm mad that "Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96" is only 35 seconds long. In my opinion, that is one of the best beats on the album. But thats all the bad things I can think of.
"Entroducing..." is one of the best instrumental tracks you'll hear. At a time in '96 when hip hop was changing, this would have been a breath of fresh air to hear (espically when people were starting to loose their origonality). This album blows The Outsider as well as Funky Skunk away. There are no vocals on here, except for the samples. This is just pure music to vibe to real easily. Whether if you're driving in traffic, or chillin' in your bed, or if your preference is jazz, or hip hop, this is one album that you will enjoy. Peace.
Lyrics: N/A
Production: A+
Guest Appearances: N/A
Musical Vibes: A
Top 5 Favorite Tracks:
1. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)
2. Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
3. Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96
4. Organ Donor
5. Midnight In A Perfect World
Endtroducing.......2007-03-26
An Outstanding Album!.......2006-10-05
Sonic Alchemy .......2006-09-01
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Endtroducing...
DJ Shadow Manufacturer: Import [Generic] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000005RNY Release Date: 1998-06-30 |
Album Details
Japanese Pressing to Contain Two Bonus Tracks: 'red Bus Needs to Leave'& 'in Flux'.Customer Reviews:
Amazing!.......1999-12-22
Essential for anyone with a pulse............1999-08-12
PERFECT.......1998-10-24
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