What Does Your Soul Look Like

by DJ Shadow

What Does Your Soul Look Like cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: 13 March 1995
  • Label: Mo Wax
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 4.15/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating as a deeply ambitious, 30-plus minute continuous suite divided into four parts, this release fundamentally pushed instrumental hip-hop into profound cinematic territory. Josh Davis meticulously pieces together thousands of disparate vinyl samples to construct a dark, incredibly emotional narrative arc. The masterpiece perfectly anticipated the groundbreaking sonic architecture he would fully realize on his legendary debut album 'Endtroducing.....'.

Genres

Descriptors: Instrumental, atmospheric, sampling, rhythmic, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part II)
  2. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part III)
  3. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part IV)
  4. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part I)

Credits

  • DJ Shadow - primary artist, composed by, producer, liner notes [shouts]
  • Tim Goldsworthy - a&r [international - assistance]
  • James Lavelle - a&r [international], liner notes [mo' wax props]
  • Josh Davis - composed by, producer
  • Swifty - design [mo' wax grafix]

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