Album of the day (#3126): Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow - Music

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Endtroducing..... by DJ Shadow (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1996.
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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)

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baystateoftheart
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Amazing album. The second-best instrumental hip-hop record of all time.
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I was entroduced to Endtroducing through this site
It's great

Luigii

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Age: 28

Best Track Changeling? Though I can see if People Pick Midnight in a Perfect World.

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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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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: 29

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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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.

Graeme2

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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 Very Happy

yeah second the Brainfreeze rec.

baystateoftheart
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Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts

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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