History Music / Endtroducing

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''[[caption-width-right:350:Bob Wood, national program director of the Chum Group, worked with us in producing...]]''

* TakeThat: "Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96", which consists of 45 seconds of a laid-back Music/DrDre type beat, as was popular in 1996, then has a quick sample of someone (namely Shadow's friend and occasional collaborator Lyrics Born) saying "[[MoneyDearBoy It's the money!]]".

To make the album, Shadow worked with an Akai [=MPC60=] sampler, a Technics SL-1200 turntable, an Alesis ADAT tape recorder, and his extremely large collection of [=LPs=] (over ''60,000''). He found recurring aspects of the album to be [[GenreRoulette genre variability between songs]] and a recurring concept of self-contemplation [[CreatorBreakdown onset by his own bout with depression at the time of production]].

The album was released to critical acclaim, being celebrated as one of the greatest albums of the year and the decade, and certainly a project with nigh-unparalleled staying power in the instrumental hip hop genre, as Shadow's innovative sampling techniques served to be highly influential to future generations of producers.

It is also seen as a landmark album in the genre of instrumental hip hop. The album was also included on ''TIME''[='=]s list of [[Main/TimeAllTime100Albums 100 timeless and essential albums]]. It is compared with albums such as Music/TheAvalanches' ''Music/SinceILeftYou'' since both are seen as crowning achievements of plunderphonics.

Unfortunately, in all of this acclaim, ''Endtroducing'' became a ToughActToFollow that Shadow [[FirstInstallmentWins likely will never be able to top]], as all of his future albums failed to receive the same unanimous praise and celebration as this one.

To make the album, Shadow worked with an Akai [=MPC60=] sampler, a Technics SL-1200 turntable, an Alesis ADAT tape recorder, and his extremely large collection of [=LPs=] (over ''60,000''). He found recurring aspects of the album to be [[GenreRoulette genre variability between songs]] and a recurring concept of self-contemplation [[CreatorBreakdown onset by his own bout with depression]].

The album was made after a period where Shadow released three successful singles on the same label -- "In/Flux", "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)", and "What Does Your Soul Look Like".

[[WordOfGod In his words]], ''Endtroducing'' was "the fourth and final chapter in a series of pieces...with a certain sound, a certain tone, a certain atmosphere". This inspired the album's name as it marked the conclusion of Shadow's Mo' Wax series but served as his big debut.

''Endtroducing'' is renowned for being fully or almost fully composed of samples (everything from Music/{{Bjork}} to Music/{{Metallica}} to ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness'' to ''Series/TwinPeaks'' to Music/GiorgioMoroder and so on), and has received a Guinness World Record for being the "First Completely Sampled Album".

In making this album, Shadow strived to make an "entirely 100% sample-based album", working only with an Akai [=MPC60=] sampler, a Technics SL-1200 turntable, and an Alesis ADAT tape recorder. Some say that his extremely large collection of [=LPs=] (over ''60,000'') was used by Shadow to make the album.

The album was released to critical acclaim, being celebrated as one of the greatest albums of 1996, of the 1990s, and even of all time. Shadow's innovative sampling techniques were praised by critics and served to be highly influential to other producers.

[[caption-width-right:350:Bob Wood, national program director of the Chum Group, worked with us in producing...]]

The album was made after a period where Shadow released three successful singles on the same label -- "In/Flux", "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)", and "What Does Your Soul Look Like". [[WordOfGod In his words]], ''Endtroducing'' was "the fourth and final chapter in a series of pieces...with a certain sound, a certain tone, a certain atmosphere". This inspired the album's name as it marked the conclusion of Shadow's Mo' Wax series but served as his big debut.

''Endtroducing.....'' is the debut album of American music producer Music/DJShadow, released in November 1996 on the Mo' Wax label. The album was made after a period where Shadow released three successful singles on the same label -- "In/Flux", "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)", and "What Does Your Soul Look Like". [[WordOfGod In his words]], ''Endtroducing'' was "the fourth and final chapter in a series of pieces...with a certain sound, a certain tone, a certain atmosphere". This inspired the album's name as it marked the conclusion of Shadow's Mo' Wax series but served as his big debut.

''Endtroducing'' is renowned for being fully or almost fully composed of samples (everything from Music/{{Bjork}} to Music/{{Metallica}} to ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness'' to ''Series/TwinPeaks'' to Music/GiorgioMoroder and so on), and has received a Guinness World Record for being the "First Completely Sampled Album". In making this album, Shadow strived to make an "entirely 100% sample-based album", working only with an Akai [=MPC60=] sampler, a Technics SL-1200 turntable, and an Alesis ADAT tape recorder. Some say that his extremely large collection of [=LPs=] (over ''60,000'') was used by Shadow to make the album.

The album was released to critical acclaim, being celebrated as one of the greatest albums of 1996, of the 1990s, and even of all time. Shadow's innovative sampling techniques were praised by critics and served to be highly influential to other producers. It is also seen as a landmark album in the genre of instrumental hip hop. The album was also included on ''TIME''[='=]s list of [[Main/TimeAllTime100Albums 100 timeless and essential albums]]. It is compared with albums such as Music/TheAvalanches' ''Music/SinceILeftYou'' since both are seen as crowning achievements of plunderphonics.

* TakeThat: "Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96", which consists of 45 seconds of a laid-back Dr. Dre type beat, as was popular in 1996, then has a quick sample of someone (namely Shadow's friend and occasional collaborator Lyrics Born) saying "[[MoneyDearBoy It's the money!]]".

The album was released to critical acclaim, being celebrated as one of the greatest albums of 1996, of the 1990s, and even of all time. Shadow's innovative sampling techniques were praised by critics and served to be highly influential to other producers. It is also seen as a landmark album in the genre of instrumental hip hop. The album was also included on ''TIME''[='=]s list of [[Main/TimeAllTime100Albums 100 timeless and essential albums]].

'''''Endtroducing.....''''' is the debut album of American music producer Music/DJShadow, released in November 1996 on the Mo' Wax label. The album was made after a period where Shadow released three successful singles on the same label -- "In/Flux", "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)", and "What Does Your Soul Look Like". [[WordOfGod In his words]], ''Endtroducing'' was "the fourth and final chapter in a series of pieces...with a certain sound, a certain tone, a certain atmosphere". This inspired the album's name as it marked the conclusion of Shadow's Mo' Wax series but served as his big debut.

* EpicRocking: 6 out of the 13 tracks are 5-9 minutes long.

* LastNoteNightmare: Ends with the atmospherically unnerving "Transmission 3", with an ominous spoken-word sample from ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness'' being buried and smothered under sinister, fuzz-distorted ambience akin to TV static. There's even a ''Series/TwinPeaks'' sample near the end.

* IAmSong: "Best Foot Forward", serving as Shadow's introduction to the world.

** The organ from "Organ Donor" makes an appearance in "Stem/LongStem".

* CallForward: "Transmission 2" takes its instrumentation from "Midnight in a Perfect World" later on the album.

* CallForward: "Transmission 2" takes its instrumentation from "Midnight" later on the album.

* {{Sampling}} / SampledUp: But of course.

[[caption-width-right:350:Bob Wood, national program director of the Chum Group, worked with us in producing:]]

The album was released to critical acclaim, being celebrated as one of the greatest albums of 1996, of the 1990s, and even of all time. Shadow's innovative sampling techniques were praised by critics and served to be highly influential to other producers. It is also seen as a landmark album in the genre of instrumental hip hop.

'''''Endtroducing.....''''' is the debut album of American music producer Music/DJShadow, released in November 1996 on the Mo' Wax label. The album was made after a period where Shadow released three successful singles on the same label -- "In/Flux", "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)", and "What Does Your Soul Look Like". [[WordOfGod In his words]], ''Endtroducing'' was "the fourth and final chapter in a series of pieces...with a certain sound, a certain tone, a certain atmosphere."