- trip hop, instrumental, hip hop, electronic
- 63 min
- 16 tracks
- Universal UMC
Endtroducing..... is the debut studio album by American music producer DJ Shadow, released on September 16, 1996, by Mo' Wax. It is an instrumental hip hop work composed almost entirely of samples from vinyl records. DJ Shadow produced Endtroducing over two years, using an Akai MPC60 MKII sampler and little other equipment. He edited and layered samples to create new tracks of varying moods and tempos.
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Character
Grave, character-led, contemplative and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
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- AllMusic5/5 ★
- Alternative Press5/5
- Christgau's Consumer GuideA+
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Guardian5/5 ★
- NME8/10
- Pitchfork10/10
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide5/5 ★
- Spin9/10
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Tracks
- 1Best Foot Forward0:48
- 2Building Steam With a Grain of Salt6:39
- 3The Number Song4:34
- 4Changeling7:16
- 5Transmission 10:34
- 6What Does Your Soul Look Like (Pt. 4)5:02
- 7Untitled0:23
- 8Stem/Long Stem7:47
- 9Transmission 21:29
- 10Mutual Slump4:00
- 11Organ Donor1:57
- 12Why Hip Hop Sucks in '960:43
- 13Midnight in a Perfect World4:58
- 14Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain9:21
- 15What Does Your Soul Look Like (Pt. 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)6:17
- 16Transmission 31:09
16 tracks, 63 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- DJ Shadow
- Label
- Universal UMC
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XE
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