Endtroducing..... | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dj Shadow
Label: Fontana Island
Category: Music
Buy New: $12.99
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Rating:  197 reviews
Sales Rank: 43315
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 769712412319
EAN: 0769712412319
ASIN: B000005DQQ
Release Date: December 10, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Best Foot Forward | | • | Building Steam with a Grain of Salt | | • | Number Song | | • | Changeling/Transmission 1 | | • | What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4 | | • | Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2 | | • | Mutual Slump | | • | Organ Donor | | • | Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96 | | • | Midnight in a Perfect World | | • | Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain | | • | What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1: Blue Sky Revisit |
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Amazon.com
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
Album Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 192 more reviews...
 The most over-rated album of all time August 29, 2008
Maxwell Voettiner (Orange County, CA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
10 dedos fuera de lo comun June 15, 2008
Casstruita (Xalapa, MEX)
Este es viejito, de 1996, pero se convierte en el mejor disco que tengo de este genero. Tarde en entrarle aunque ya habia escuchado los rumores de los 10 dedos prodigios de DJ Shadow, tambien ya habia oido que UNKLE sin el jamas seria igual (y me gusta el UNKLE actual). Es una seleccion de canciones originales que parece que fueron escritas para el, para ser puestos todos juntos y remezclados para sonar de esta forma. Temas destacados? Todos! De principio a fin, hasta los sampleos que duran segundos son indispensables, pero si quieren saber, este disco lo pedi nada mas con escuchar "Building steam with a grain of salt"
SAMPLEA UN SOLO DE BATERIA! Si han visto a alguien samplear? No es una tornamesa!
Resena en "Yo Soy Aquel..."
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Really good stuff June 10, 2008
HeavyDuty
I just heard this album for the first time about a week ago. I came away very impressed. Not the typical type of music I listen to, but this takes some serious skill. Building Steam with a Grain of Salt is sick.
Groundbreaking April 29, 2008
R. MCRACKAN (Raleigh, NC)
When Endtroducing came out, there was little if anything like it anywhere. It's hard to recapture that same feeling more than 10 years after the fact, but in my mind, this remains one of the top 50 innovative albums in music. Simply incredible turntablism.
Welcome to the Best Album of All-Time February 23, 2008
Jorge Alvarado
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can sit here and write the best comments of this album. If you're here, you know why. No explanation needed. There has yet to be an album to dethrone Endtroducing as the best album I've ever heard. Some have challenged but to no avail. No one album has captured the essence of music quite like this album did for me during the spring of 1997.
This is the top of the mountain. Any other review I make will be a step down. There's a saying that you can only go south from the north pole. As is the case with this album.
Best album since 1997 and continues to be so today. Incredible.
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