DJ Shadow: Endtroducing... w/ Artwork AUDIO CD 13 electronica music tracks 1996 Type: Music Platform: Audio CD Publisher: Mo Wax Released: 1996 Media: CD Album FeaturesUPC: 769712412326Artist: DJ ShadowFormat: CDRelease Year: 1996Record Label: Mo WaxGenre: Electronic, ElectronicaTrack Listing1. Best Foot Forward2. Building Steam with a Grain of Salt3. The Number Song4. Changeling/Transmission 15. Pt. 4 What Does Your Soul Look Like6. [Untitled Track]7. Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 28. Mutual Slump9. Organ Donor10. Why Hip Hop Sucks in '9611. Midnight in a Perfect World12. Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain13. Pt. 1: Blue Sky Revisit What Does Your Soul Look LikeDetailsPlaying Time: 63 min.Producer: DJ ShadowDistributor: Fontana DistributionRecording Type: StudioRecording Mode: StereoSPAR Code: n/aAlbum NotesRecorded at The Glue Factory, San Francisco, California.Audio Mixer: DJ Shadow.Recording information: Glue Factory, San Francisco, CA (1994-1996); The Glue Factory, San Francisco, CA (1994-1996).Photographers: Barney Bankhead; Will Bankhead.Though the sleeve notes of DJ Shadow's exhilarating long-playing debut speak of his devotion to "vinyl culture" and "sample-based music" (a guide of which is contained within), it's all just double-speak for hip-hop. Undoubtedly, this is the musical culture that lit up the life of young Cali-boy Josh Davis, inspiring him to construct these vocal-less, found-sound collages. Not the hip-hop that a dime-a-dozen MCs have turned into a cartoonish, excess-filled formula, but the hip-hop of such sonic anarchist producers as Afrika Bambaataa and The Bomb Squad. To put it mildly, DJ Shadow sides with the dope beats, not the bland blah-blah-blah.Shadow's skills with a drum machine power ENDTRODUCING... as much as his innovative def-ness with a sampler--which says a lot for someone who's been called the Jimi Hendrix of sampling. The songs shift tempos in a blink, incorporating multiple time-signatures, and it's to Shadow's credit that he's as comfortable style="font-size: 14px;" hinting at Elvin Jones' or Dave Grohl's rhythmic attacks as he is citing old faithfuls like Clyde Stubblefield. His wide array of samples color the album's beat-heavy text. Ethereal horns, ambient keyboards, orchestral strings, vocoder vocals, whole film scenes--each is made a part of the sweeping focus, part of a grand postmodern design.For CD Player
