Endtroducing.....

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Endtroducing..... is DJ Shadow's debut album, released in 1996 by Mo' Wax. He made it over two years, first in his apartment in California and later in Dan the Automator's studio in San Francisco. His equipment was small: an Akai MPC60 MKII, a turntable and an ADAT recorder. He wanted to make a record consisting entirely of samples from vinyl. He sought them mainly in a record shop in Sacramento and preferably chose obscure records, including jazz, funk and psychedelia.

Shadow cut, repeated and stacked the samples into new songs with widely varying moods and tempos. Building Steam With a Grain of Salt revolves around a repeated piano line, to which new sounds are constantly added. Midnight in a Perfect World and Stem became hits in England. Critics praised the album in 1996 and it is now regarded as one of the best records of the 1990s and a milestone of instrumental hip hop.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Best Foot Forward0:47Apple Music ↗
2. 2Building Steam With a Grain of Salt6:39Apple Music ↗
3. 3The Number Song4:34Apple Music ↗
4. 4Changeling7:16Apple Music ↗
5. 5Transmission 10:35Apple Music ↗
6. 6What Does Your Soul Look Like , Pt. 45:02Apple Music ↗
7. 7Untitled0:25Apple Music ↗
8. 8Stem / Long Stem (Medley)7:47Apple Music ↗
9. 9Transmission 21:29Apple Music ↗
10. 10Mutual Slump4:00Apple Music ↗
11. 11Organ Donor1:57Apple Music ↗
12. 12Why Hip-Hop Sucks In '960:44Apple Music ↗
13. 13Midnight In a Perfect World4:58Apple Music ↗
14. 14Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain (Medley)9:21Apple Music ↗
15. 15What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1 (Blue Sky Revisit)6:17Apple Music ↗
16. 16Transmission 31:11Apple Music ↗

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