DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
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Artist: DJ ShadowEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-11-19
Music Label: Fontana Island
Soundtracks:
- Best Foot Forward
- Building Steam with a Grain of Salt - DJ Shadow, Storch, Jeremy
- The Number Song
- Changeling/Transmission 1 - DJ Shadow, Franke, Christopher
- What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4
- Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2 - DJ Shadow, Spyropoulos, Alex
- Mutual Slump - DJ Shadow, DJ Shadow
- Organ Donor
- Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96
- Midnight in a Perfect World - DJ Shadow, Pokka Pohyda
- Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain
- What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1: Blue Sky Revisit - DJ Shadow, Heath, Jimmy
Music reviews of Endtroducing...
Music Review: The most over-rated album of all time
Rating: 3 Stars
I bought this CD mostly because there are very few 5 star CD's anywhere on Amazon, so I thought this one must be spectacular, right? Wrong. It's a huge disappointment. Especially considering how good everyone makes it out to be. Where are the catchy bass lines or the driving drum beats? There aren't any. He's a DJ, yet you can't dance to any of the songs on this CD. If you played this at a party, or in the car on a crazy night out, you'd make everyone confused.
To give him credit, What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) and Midnight in a Perfect World are great songs, but just know beforehand that those songs are worlds better than any other on the CD, and even then, they are really slow paced songs. On a CD that has a 5 STAR RATING, you would expect nearly every song to be amazing, but they aren't... at all.
The first three songs are weak. They all have remarkably weak bass lines, if any at all. Changeling is okay, and so is Mutual Slump, and Why Hip Hop Sucks is mildly entertaining the first couple times you hear it, but that's it. HALF the songs are MEDIOCRE. Just by reading the reviews, it seems like Shadow appeals mostly to the pseudo-intellectual music nerds out there, and that's the vibe he gives off in most of his interviews. It isn't about the music, it's about the hype. Save yourself the money and only purchase What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) and Midnight in a Perfect World, and MAYBE Mutual Slump and Changeling if you like it that much. This is honestly only a 3-star CD, and that's being modest.
Description of Endtroducing...
DJ Shadow, a.k.a. Josh Davis, could be credited with bringing newfound introspection to the gloating sounds of hip-hop. Condensed with urban oscillations and scatological beats, Endtroducing shutters with eclectic samples and aural montages that reach beyond the constraints of hip-hop style. Enhancing the mix with fundamentals of rock, soul, funk, ambient, and jazz, the modern fusions fail to go unnoticed, even by the casual listener. While most of the tracks are compiled by layering samples from vinyl treasures found in used-record bins, the production quality of the mosaic is unmatched. Darkened melodies carry throughout the album with its eye on the end of the tunnel. The narration samples come from numerous sources and keep the listener involved and waiting for resolution. With a message as fragmentary as an overheard conversation, Endtroducing conveys no apparent conclusion, but begs the mind, body, and soul for some rewind. Universal. 2004.DJ Shadow, a.k.a. Josh Davis, could be credited with bringing newfound introspection to the gloating sounds of hip-hop. Condensed with urban oscillations and scatological beats, Endtroducing shutters with eclectic samples and aural montages that reach beyond the constraints of hip-hop style. Enhancing the mix with fundamentals of rock, soul, funk, ambient, and jazz, the modern fusions fail to go unnoticed, even by the casual listener. While most of the tracks are compiled by layering samples from vinyl treasures found in used-record bins, the production quality of the mosaic is unmatched. Darkened melodies carry throughout the album with its eye on the end of the tunnel. The narration samples come from numerous sources and keep the listener involved and waiting for resolution. With a message as fragmentary as an overheard conversation, Endtroducing conveys no apparent conclusion, but begs the mind, body, and soul for some rewind. --Lucas Hilbert
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