Endtroducing.....
by DJ Shadow
- Type: Album
- Released: September 16, 1996
- Label: Mo' Wax, Mo Wax
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:02:58
- Community rating: 4.42/5 from 43 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
DJ Shadow's 'Endtroducing.....' is a landmark instrumental hip-hop work constructed almost entirely from a vast palette of vinyl samples using an Akai MPC60 sampler. The album established a new benchmark for sample-based composition through its intricate layering of disparate genres like jazz, funk, and rock, creating dense, cinematic soundscapes with varying tempos and often melancholic moods. Its innovative production and cohesive, atmospheric quality are recognized for having a lasting influence on the evolution of trip-hop and instrumental hip-hop.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, sampling, experimental, groundbreaking, classic
Tracklist
- Best Foot Forward (0:46)
- Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt (6:39)
- The Number Song (4:34)
- Changeling (7:16)
- Transmission 1 (0:35)
- What Does Your Soul Look Like , Pt. 4 (5:02)
- Untitled (0:24)
- Stem / Long Stem - Medley (7:47)
- Transmission 2 (1:29)
- Mutual Slump (4:00)
- Organ Donor (1:57)
- Why Hip-Hop Sucks In '96 (0:43)
- Midnight In A Perfect World (4:58)
- Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain - Medley (9:21)
- What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1 - Blue Sky Revisit (6:17)
- Transmission 3 (1:10)
Credits
- DJ Shadow - producer, mixer, engineer, writer, sampling, editing, programming, arrangement, composition
- Lyrics Born - vocals
- Gift of Gab - vocals
- Lisa Haugen - vocals
- James Lavelle - a&r
- Dan The Automator - assistant engineer
- B Plus - photography
- Barney Bankhead - photography (gatefold montage)
- Ben Drury - sleeve design
- Will Bankhead - photography (montage photo), sleeve