Music CD - DJ Shadow: Endtroducing...

	Music CD: Endtroducing... Artist: DJ Shadow List Price: $16.49 Our Price: $10.56 Your Save: $ 5.93 ( 36% ) Availability:
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Tracks: 1. Best Foot Forward 2. Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt 3. The Number Song 4. Changeling 5. Transmission 1 6. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4) 7. Untitled 8. Stem/Long Stem 9. Transmission 2 10. Mutual Slump 11. Organ Donor 12. Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96 13. Midnight In A Perfect World 14. Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain 15. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit) 16. Transmission 3
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0731454060721 Format: Import Number Of Discs: 1 Release Date: 2004-01-20
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Groundbreaking Comment: When Endtroducing came out, there was little if anything like it anywhere. It's hard to recapture that same feeling more than 10 years after the fact, but in my mind, this remains one of the top 50 innovative albums in music. Simply incredible turntablism. Customer Rating: Summary: Welcome to the Best Album of All-Time Comment: I can sit here and write the best comments of this album. If you're here, you know why. No explanation needed. There has yet to be an album to dethrone Endtroducing as the best album I've ever heard. Some have challenged but to no avail. No one album has captured the essence of music quite like this album did for me during the spring of 1997. This is the top of the mountain. Any other review I make will be a step down. There's a saying that you can only go south from the north pole. As is the case with this album. Best album since 1997 and continues to be so today. Incredible. Customer Rating: Summary: Light + Dark = Shadow Comment: Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first musical album ever to be created entirely from sampled sources, DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing..." took a genre that had been pioneered by Massive Attack and proved just exactly what it was capable of. Even critics of this record have to admit that, like it or not, this album changed the collective face of electro-cloned hip hop. Using samples from sources as diverse as The Beastie Boys, Metallica, A Tribe Called Quest, Tangerine Dream, Nirvana, Bjork, Tears for Fears, and even Twin Peaks, DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) creates a world of drum-driven dreaminess. Something instantly familiar without being recognizable. A new class of listening pleasure that is akin to having a persistent itch being continuously scratched. His record is heavy on the breaks, his phenomenal mixing abilities shining through the most at this moments. The Transylvanian "Organ Donor" and the funky free-for-all that is "Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt" are schizophrenic proof of this, and they're also great examples of how Shadow likes to take his energy at the tables and condense it into something that could be equally classified as "creepy" and "transcendent." The mood, like the DJ's name, is dark, but it also implies something brighter. You can't have shadows without light, and many of "Endtroducing..."s songs glimmer with the outlines of something crystalline and playful. All three of the "Transmission" tracks ("Changeling," "Stem/Long Stem," and "What Does Your Soul Look Like [Part 1: Blue Sky Revisit]") are infused with such a loping lounge-y lilt that it's hard not to smile as you listen, even with Shadow shadows it all with his dark, trademark rhythms. The title of my favorite song on the whole album sums Shadow's mood perfectly: "Midnight in a Perfect World." The record is about perfection, it's about ensuring that each molecule and vibration is set to the same beautiful frequency. And then that aching beauty is saturated with the flavors of night, salted with stars, and basted in the ambient majesty of Shadow's lunar lunacy. "Endtroducing..." is a night owl of a record, a musical journey that is always on the verge of dawn. Welcome to the shadows. Customer Rating: Summary: ZOMG Tobin iz waaay betta lolz!!!#@!!! Comment: HAHAHA! Sorry, but I couldn't resist. Yeah, I tend to go for Tobin's twisted landscapes, but nobody can do beauty, peacefullness, and beautiful bliss like Shadow. This album is a landmark, and one of the quintessential albums of electronic music. Of course, there are so many great albums, and that says quite a bit. Even with today's superior electronics and, uh, Tobin (last time I compare him to Shadow), it still hasn't aged. Of course, I wasn't aware of this album until last summer, but it sounds fresh as a spring morning. He is the master at beautiful collages, and if electronic music has soul, than Shadow is the soul keeper (Lame, I know), the gatekeeper of beauty (we have Tobin as the lord of the underworld, of course). Warm like a blanket, dark as night, cold and chilly, blissfull peace, there are so many moods. There isn't any real tension in this album, as it doesn't have to. Midnight In A Perfect World is perfect for the urban bliss. Stem/Long Stem is a stark, lonely, dark, myserious, with a hint of light. Building Steam with A Grain Of Salt? Rain, mesmerizing. What Does Your Soul Look Like explore that your soul is multifaced. It will truly conjure up something, maybe even exactly what you soul look likes (there are more of Soul Look Like songs on Preemptive Strike). There's even some breaks, such as the untitled track, the more uptempo The Number Song (which is better than I once thought, for sure), and the best one yet, Why Hip Hop Sucks in 96', a great stab at the lame rap music at the time (I can't imagine what Why Hip Hop sucks in 08' sounds like). Shadow will prove to you that he is an artist. Too many ________ electronic "artists" let everything do the work for them, set their machines on overrdrive, and operate it like it a machine. One little change, it's soul less, thoughtless, robotic. Shadow takes samples, melds, cuts, pastes, he's brilliant. He uses tension, he uses his instrument as that, as he adds twists, turns, he's the master at that (certainly nearly on par as a certain Brazillian Born artist). Besides, he's just pretty much using already recording material and just playing a bunch at the same time, on a ________ turntable and other stuff. Not much different, if you really think about it. Add my voice to the numerous five star reviews. It remains a cornerstone that all music lovers should purchase, no questions asked. 10/10 Customer Rating: Summary: Genius. Comment: This album is completely genius in every sense of the term. I have never heard a more original album ever. What makes it even more amazing is the fact that it was all sampled. Shadow is amazing. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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 Hilbert