Preemptive Strike (album)

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Preemptive Strike
Preemptive Strike cover
Compilation album by DJ Shadow
Released January 13, 1998
Recorded 1991–1997
Genre Hip hop
Trip-Hop
Acid rap
Length 61:11
Label Mo'Wax
Producer DJ Shadow
Professional reviews
DJ Shadow chronology
Endtroducing.....
(1996)		 Preemptive Strike
(1998)		 The Private Press
(2002)

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

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Strike 1" – 0:26
  2. "In/Flux" – 12:12
  3. "Hindsight" – 6:52
  4. "Strike 2" – 0:15
  5. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)" – 13:51
  6. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)" – 5:12
  7. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" – 7:12
  8. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)" – 6:21
  9. "Strike 3 (And I'm Out)" – 0:26
  10. "High Noon" – 3:57
  11. "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:

  1. "In/Flux"
  2. "Hindsight"
  3. "High Noon"
  4. "Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)"
  5. "What Does Your Soul Look Like" (Part 2)"
  6. "What Does Your Soul Look Like" (Part 3)"
  7. "What Does Your Soul Look Like" (Part 4)"
  8. "What Does Your Soul Look Like" (Part 1)"

[edit] Samples

In/Flux

Hindsight

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' movie THX 1138

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)

  • "The Vision and the Voice Part 1 - The Vision" by Flying Island
  • Spoken words by Billy Zane from the movie Dead Calm

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)

High Noon

Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)

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