Preemptive Strike (album)
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| Preemptive Strike | ||
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| Compilation album by DJ Shadow | ||
| Released | January 13, 1998 | |
| Recorded | 1991–1997 | |
| Genre | Hip hop Trip-Hop Acid rap |
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| Length | 61:11 | |
| Label | Mo'Wax | |
| Producer(s) | DJ Shadow | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| DJ Shadow chronology | ||
| Endtroducing..... (1996) |
Preemptive Strike (1998) |
The Private Press (2002) |
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| 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.
Contents |
[edit] Personnel
- Josh Davis - production, mixing, engineering
[edit] Track listing
- "Strike 1" – 0:26
- "In/Flux" – 12:12
- "Hindsight" – 6:52
- "Strike 2" – 0:15
- "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)" – 13:51
- "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)" – 5:12
- "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" – 7:12
- "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)" – 6:21
- "Strike 3 (And I'm Out)" – 0:26
- "High Noon" – 3:57
- "Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)" – 4:26
[edit] 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:
- Influx
- Hindsight
- High Noon
- Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
- What Does your soul look like (part 2)
- What Does your soul look like (Part 3)
- What Does your soul look like (Part 4)
- What Does your soul look like (Part 1)
[edit] 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
- "The Answer Is No" by Giant Crab
- "Flashing" & "Day Tripper" by Jimi Hendrix
- "Airborne" by Michael Garrison
Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
- "Tears" by Giorgio
- "Judy Goes on Holiday" by Supersister
- "Change le Beat" by B-Side & Fab Five Freddy
