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Location: Spain
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- Posted: 07/06/2019 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3126): Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow
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Today's album of the day
Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1996.
Country: 
Overall rank: 147
Average rating: 84/100 (from 865 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Best Foot Forward
2. Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
3. The Number Song
4. Changeling
5. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)
6. Untitled
7. Stem/Long Stem
8. Mutual Slump
9. Organ Donor
10. Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96
11. Midnight In A Perfect World
12. Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain
13. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1-Blue Sky Revisit)
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts 
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CharlieBarley
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Age: 50
Location: Mount Olympus 
- #3
- Posted: 07/06/2019 22:10
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Classic
I was entroduced to Endtroducing through this site
It's great
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Luigii
Gender: Male
Age: 30
- #4
- Posted: 07/06/2019 23:53
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Best Track Changeling? Though I can see if People Pick Midnight in a Perfect World.
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Jimmy Dread
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Location: 555 Dub Street
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- Posted: 07/07/2019 07:58
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I’ve had a bit of a topsy-turvy relationship with Endtroducing over the years. First time I heard it was when it first came out and it did absolutely zilch for me. It wasn’t for around another 10-15 years that I gave it another go and everything finally clicked into place. Now I own two copies of it (original Mo’Wax and one of those Back To Black abominations, the latter I’m trying to sell on).
I assume Baystate’s personal favourite instrumental hip-hop LP is Donuts - fair enough, it’s a fine album. I’ve always thought it played more like a consistently good mixtape short on obvious standout moments. Entroducing on the other hand is a set of solid, and sometimes mesmerising cuts. Shadow’s choice of samples do it for me too - crate-digging of the highest order, and directly responsible for me owning these two Scandinavian curios:
Ja, Dä ä Dä! by Pugh Rogefeldt
Harakka Bialoipokku by Pekka Pohjola
Coincidentally, if you like both Shadow and Dilla give Shadow/Cut Chemist’s Brainfreeze a spin.
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Skinny
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- Posted: 07/07/2019 08:47
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Yeah, this shits on Donuts. Though its scope is much wider, so the comparison seems unfair. Easier to compare this to something like SAW or Untrue, tbh.
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HoldenM
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Age: 31
- #7
- Posted: 07/07/2019 09:12
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One of those formative hip hop albums for me. Kinda ruined a lot of stuff for me. Anyway, it's perfect.
Track picks
1. Best Foot Forward
4. Changeling
10. Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96
11. Midnight In A Perfect World
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Graeme2
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Location: The Upside Down
- #8
- Posted: 07/07/2019 11:59
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| Skinny wrote: | | Yeah, this shits on Donuts. Though its scope is much wider, so the comparison seems unfair. Easier to compare this to something like SAW or Untrue, tbh. |
Yeah. Both this and Donuts are instrumental records based on samples but they aren't really that comparable. Always really loved this record.
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Graeme2
Gender: Male
Location: The Upside Down
- #9
- Posted: 07/07/2019 12:02
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| Jimmy Dread wrote: | I’ve had a bit of a topsy-turvy relationship with Endtroducing over the years. First time I heard it was when it first came out and it did absolutely zilch for me. It wasn’t for around another 10-15 years that I gave it another go and everything finally clicked into place. Now I own two copies of it (original Mo’Wax and one of those Back To Black abominations, the latter I’m trying to sell on).
I assume Baystate’s personal favourite instrumental hip-hop LP is Donuts - fair enough, it’s a fine album. I’ve always thought it played more like a consistently good mixtape short on obvious standout moments. Entroducing on the other hand is a set of solid, and sometimes mesmerising cuts. Shadow’s choice of samples do it for me too - crate-digging of the highest order, and directly responsible for me owning these two Scandinavian curios:
Ja, Dä ä Dä! by Pugh Rogefeldt
Harakka Bialoipokku by Pekka Pohjola
Coincidentally, if you like both Shadow and Dilla give Shadow/Cut Chemist’s Brainfreeze a spin. |
Nice one. Look at Pugh there, that HAS to be good  yeah second the Brainfreeze rec.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts
- #10
- Posted: 07/07/2019 15:51
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| Skinny wrote: | | Yeah, this shits on Donuts. Though its scope is much wider, so the comparison seems unfair. Easier to compare this to something like SAW or Untrue, tbh. |
Nah. It may be more groundbreaking/epic/experimental, but that doesn’t make the music itself better. Both are personal favorites though. Endtroducing was something I loved from first listen, while Donuts took more time to click.
Track picks: Midnight In A Perfect World, Stem/Long Stem
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