Endtroducing.....

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Endtroducing.....
Endtroducing..... cover
Studio album by DJ Shadow
Released November 19, 1996
Recorded 1996
Genre Hip-Hop
Length 63:27
Label Mo' Wax
Professional reviews
DJ Shadow chronology
Endtroducing.....
(1996)
Preemptive Strike
(1998)


Endtroducing..... is the first studio album by DJ Shadow, released in 1996 (see 1996 in music.) It is unique in that it is built entirely from samples of other audio, such as hip hop, jazz, funk, psychedelia, old television shows, interviews, and percussion tracks. The album has been cited in the Guinness World Records as being the first album created completely from sampled sources.

In 2005 DJ Shadow released a "Deluxe Edition" of the album with a second disc containing demos and alternate versions of original tracks, tracks exclusive to CD singles and a vintage live set recorded on October 30, 1997.

The album's cover depicts Solesides members Chief Xcel and Lyrics Born in Records, a record store in Sacramento, California [1].

NPR included Endtroducing..... in its list of the top 300 songs of the 20th century [2].

Contents

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Best Foot Forward" – 0:48
  2. "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt" – 6:41
  3. "The Number Song" – 4:38
  4. "Changeling/Transmission 1" – 7:51
  5. "What Does Your Soul Look Like, Part 4" – 5:08
    • This track was not included in the vinyl LP release for space reasons.
  6. " " – 0:24
  7. "Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2" – 9:22
  8. "Mutual Slump" – 4:03
  9. "Organ Donor" – 1:57
  10. "Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96" – 0:41
  11. "Midnight in a Perfect World" – 5:02
  12. "Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain" – 9:23
  13. "What Does Your Soul Look Like, Part 1: Blue Sky Revisit/Transmission 3" – 7:28

[edit] Samples

The following lists some of the songs and sounds sampled for Endtroducing.

Best Foot Forward

Building Steam with a Grain of Salt

The Number Song

  • "Orion" by Metallica
  • "Breakdown" by T La Rock
  • "AJ Scratch" by Kurtis Blow
  • "Quit Jivin'" by Pearly Queen
  • "Freelance" by Grandmaster Flash
  • "8 Counts for Rita" by Jimmy Smith
  • "Corruption is the King" by Chrystal Illusion
  • "Sexy Coffee Pot" by Tony Avalon & The Belairs
  • "Flash it to the Beat" (Live) by Grandmaster Flash
  • "Can I Kick It [Spirit Mix]" by A Tribe Called Quest
  • "Back to the Hip-Hop" by The Troubleneck Brothers
  • "Bad Luck" by Don Covay & the Lemon Blues Band
  • "Who Got the Number" by Pigmeat Markham & the B.Y.
  • "Fantastic Freaks at the Dixie" by DJ Grand Wizard Theodore

Changeling/Transmission 1

Untitled (Track 06)

  • "Grey Boy" by Human Race

Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2

Mutual Slump

Organ Donor

  • "Tears" by Giorgio
  • "Pm or Later (Instrumental)" by The New Breed
  • "There's a DJ in Your Town" by Samson & Delilah

Midnight in a Perfect World

Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain

  • "'Pon A Hill" by T. Rex
  • Dialogue from The Aurora Encounter
  • "A Funky Kind of Thing" by Billy Cobham
  • "Let the Homicides Begin" by Top Priority
  • "Soul Brothers Testify" by The Original Soul Senders

What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1: Blue Sky Revisit

[edit] Further reading

  • Eliot Wilder (2006). 33⅓ Endtroducing...... Continuum. ISBN 0826416829.

[edit] See also

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