Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

1996

3.35

Rating

26434

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19%

Distribution

Genres: Hip Hop, Electronica Styles: Downtempo, Trip Hop, Instrumental, Cut Updj

Album Summary

Endtroducing..... is the debut studio album by American music producer DJ Shadow, released on September 16, 1996, by Mo' Wax. It is an instrumental hip hop work composed almost entirely of samples from vinyl records. DJ Shadow produced Endtroducing over two years, using an Akai MPC60 sampler and little other equipment. He edited and layered samples to create new tracks of varying moods and tempos. In the United Kingdom, where DJ Shadow had already established himself as a rising act, Endtroducing received praise from music journalists at the time of its release, and reached the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart. It was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry. Mo' Wax issued four singles from the album, including the chart hits "Midnight in a Perfect World" and "Stem". It took considerably longer for Endtroducing to find success in the United States. After promoting the album and returning to his hometown of Davis, California, DJ Shadow devoted his time to creating new music. During this period, interest in Endtroducing began to build among the American music press, and it peaked at number 37 on the US Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart. Endtroducing was ranked highly on various lists of the best albums of 1996, and has been acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest albums of the 1990s. It is considered a landmark recording in instrumental hip hop, with DJ Shadow's sampling techniques and arrangements leaving a lasting influence. In 2020, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Endtroducing 329th on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

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Sep 07 2021 Author

Questions of ownership. Whose property is that drum beat, this organ, that voice? Of authorship. If I use your art for my art, do I become its creator? If not, does that tune belong to the guitar maker or the composer? Of permanence. If placing that snippet next to this one, or looping it, or giving it a beat, changes its original meaning, does art ever have a final form? A man in a room filled with vinyl, exploring every groove in minute detail, sinking deeper into his musical fever dream, the answers always a fingertip away, if he'd just.....

Jun 03 2021 Author

A load of samples expertly put together to bore you to death on a Wednesday morning. 2/5

Apr 05 2022 Author

It's sort of the epitome of what this list is all about. I would argue that it's absolutely one of the albums everyone should listen to at least once before shuffling off to the great beyond. That isn't to say you'll like it. I'm not even sure if I liked it or would bother listening again. I do know there's no album like this, and was happy to hear it. Something like a hip hop DJ trying to update jazz.

Apr 29 2021 Author

Elevator music + noise

Jun 29 2021 Author

This is a beautiful album it needs to be felt, and feel it I do.

Feb 22 2021 Author

No idea about anything about this. Let's dive in. Best Foot Forward - Classic 90s rap intro. Not really music. Building Steam with a Grain of Salt - Lovely little piano line leads into a great hook. Quotes from a guy who MIGHT be JK Simmons? This track evolves into something that sounds a lot like Blockhead The Number Song - This reminds me of a Guitar Hero spinoff game called DJ Hero. Shadow has a great knack for mixing other people's melodies, drum beats, and samples. You could draw a direct line from DJ Shadow in the mid-90s to Girl Talk in the mid-2000s. Peppy with a lot of hard kicking drums. Changeling - A rainy, dreary, ethereal piece. Eventually a melody comes in that can only be described as Cyperpunk Weather Channel. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4) - Jazzy AF with a nasty little bass riff. Untitled - I have to imagine that this is the stinger at the end of Side 1 on the LP (and the cassette). Just a goofy little 20 second thing. Stem/Long Stem - A long medley of melodies Mutual Slump - This one didn't make a huge impression on me Organ Donor - I think this hook was LITERALLY used by Blockhead! Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96 - Frankly, I don't think it does! Midnight in a Perfect World - This one also failed to make much of an impression on me. Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain - Chill vibes What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit) - Maybe the best track on the album? Overall this is excellent. You can hear the artists that influenced Shadow, as well as the artists he influenced. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent!

Feb 15 2021 Author

Still do not see what people see in this album. I can appreciate the samples, but not the resulting sound, I guess.

Sep 30 2021 Author

Already knew it well. Classic. Bit depressing to be reminded it came out 25 years ago though!

Dec 14 2023 Author

Some of the tracks are nice and chill, others are annoying af. Not my cup of tea.

Oct 22 2021 Author

Painful.

Jul 29 2022 Author

This album defined so much of my late teenage years, it was epic back then and it's still epic now. I give this 4 blazed years of PlayStation in your mates garage and a long walk home in the rain with your cans on.

Nov 01 2021 Author

Absolute classic of hip-hop. I have so many nostalgic memories tied to this album. The sampling game here is just unparalleled.

Mar 19 2021 Author

What a waste of time! Not my music genre at all. Did not like a single track of that album

Sep 13 2021 Author

Wow! Wasn't expecting to love this so much.

Dec 23 2022 Author

Feb 21 2021 Author

A classic. Great

Jul 30 2024 Author

Background music. Not much else to say about this one, it faded into the background and I could not identify any individual songs. Wasn't bad music but definitely not something that stood out to me. I know DJ Shadow is one of the original producers who brought this music to the forefront but it will never be more than working background music for me.

Jan 23 2022 Author

I got this album when I was 15 or so. I've loved it ever since. Moody, atmospheric, with beats that sounded like nothing else ever at the time. It introduced me to the concept of crate digging for which I am so grateful. Dig out the extended mix of Organ Donor if you can. The 90 seconds you get on here almost feels cruel - like here is the best song ever but you can only play for a moment. I forgive it, because Building Steam, The Number Song, Midnight and What Does Your Soul Look Like also deliver at that level, and I suppose he had to make it all fit on wax somehow (hint, drop Why Hip Hop Sucks in 96 - while it remains true in any year, the joke wastes 40 seconds!) Before Timbaland and Dilla, there was this, and damn it was good - a real shame his tracks are almost too distinct to be rhymed over (though RTJ do a great job).

Jan 26 2021 Author

I know it is only samples and not songs, but it was amazing :D

Jan 25 2021 Author

Great! Chill, and good to work to

Oct 05 2021 Author

Boring. Sampling is just such an uninteresting act. I don’t care for it.

Mar 10 2024 Author

I'll tell you want I did like...the use of an organ on a song titled "organ donor"

Jan 18 2021 Author

Fantastic album, very awesome discovery

Jan 18 2021 Author

Conhecia já. Amo. Perfeito. Sampling at its best. Um dos meus álbuns preferidos, queria morar dentro dele. Músicas preferidas: Changeling, Stem/Long Stem, e principalmente Midnight in a Perfect World

Sep 17 2020 Author

Absolutely loved some of it. Some of it made me feel completely uneasy.

Jul 04 2021 Author

Not my cup of tea.

Nov 30 2020 Author

Couldn't listen to it all.

Sep 15 2025 Author

An insane artistic achievement to have created something that sounds so organic purely from vinyl samples with basic gear. Blends rhythm and texture seamlessly to create a sound that’s constantly interesting.

Aug 04 2025 Author

This record is perfect, and Shadow has made some decent records since, but nothing comes close to this. I love that the second track has a sample of a guy talking about learning to play the drums, then the beat kicks in, and following a sample describing Cancer, DJ Shadow shows you how well HE can drum. This is one of the pinnacles of sampling/using other artists music as an art form. He does such a good job of creating his own world within this record, that you forget that he’s sampling anything. It all fits together flawlessly.

Jan 07 2025 Author

Shadows masterpiece. Still such an amazing soundscape of trip hop and down tempo hip hop. Too good.

Dec 10 2021 Author

A hypnotizing cinematic sound and a masterpiece of reinvention by way of ingenious layering. Amazing dynamics along the way on this head-bobbing ride. I could stay inside this postmodern collage all night.

Dec 29 2020 Author

hello

Dec 21 2024 Author

Godamn. This album is pretty damn immaculate. Nothing that really blew me out of the water per se, but the mixing is incredible. I feel like I'm saying this every review but instrumental hip-hop is new to me. The samples of interviews are also a nice touch. Just great.

Mar 29 2021 Author

Really enjoying this album. Definitely one to come back to while riding my bike, chilling in the tub, or to have echoing through the house. Cool find!

Sep 11 2025 Author

I love DJ shadow, but perhaps controversially not this album so much. Some tracks are too long/meandering, but no one else was making beats like this at the time, at least in America, hence all the mid -90s hype for Entroducing. I continued to follow his career to this day, and he's also awesome live, where every track is manipulated/remixed uniquely for each show. Midnight in a Perfect World is my favorite on this album. Made with 2 turntables and a sampler, no computer, pretty impressive.

Apr 15 2021 Author

Didn't like the beginning but by the middle it was getting interesting

Mar 02 2021 Author

I love plunderphonics but its just drawn out too much

Jan 31 2022 Author

Somewhat catchy during certain parts, but not super memorable as a whole. It is hard for me to judge a DJ's work as it is typically relies on the work of others through samples. In this instance, I noticed a bit of Metallica's 'Orion' on one of these tracks so I am sure that there is a ton here that was not originally created by DJ Shadow. While he did use this piece in a unique way, it is hard for me to tell how good this really is outside of my personal enjoyment of it (which was average). I understand that it takes real talent and patience to create mixes on the level he is doing here; however, I am overall not as impressed as I probably should be by this work. If it had more that stood out or more of a cohesive album structure, I would probably like this more, but it just ended up coming across as what I would consider mediocre DJ work (even though this is probably considered one of the best given its placement on this list). There is nothing here that would make me want to come back to it. 2/5.

Mar 29 2024 Author

Definitely not for me.

Mar 09 2024 Author

Horrible

Feb 19 2021 Author

dont really like it

Jan 21 2021 Author

I don't get this album, pretty sure that I listened to it before a couple of times but it doesn't inspire anything in me at all. Maybe it's an album of it's time but not for me.

May 16 2026 Author

Such a sick album. I am a sucker for 90's samples drum. This is just an all around great album, I don't really know what else to say about it. High 5!!!

May 07 2026 Author

Heard Before? Many times. Notes: - i can live without interludes on any album, although these aren't particularly egregious, and "Why Hiphop Sucks in 96" gets a giggle from me every time. - extremely bass-heavy mix is great for cars or huge stereos, but sounds a bit odd in headphones. - drums drums drums. my favorite part of the album is the frequent and unpredictable beat slicing. "Organ Donor" forever. - the platonic ideal of sample selection and arrangement. - this album put me on to David Axelrod, which dimmed the magic a bit (Shadow took more than a little inspiration), but my goodness, those are wonderful records. if you have yet to hear "Song of Innocence", drop everything and spin it right now. Verdict: The archetypal cratedigging album, and still exciting. Listen Again: A good one to revisit every few years.

Mar 31 2026 Author

I was curious to see how this one would hold up. I got really into it as a young'un without that much prior knowledge or experience with instrumental hip hop and thought it was ace, but was wondering whether with hindsight I might realise that this was quite entry level. Luckily I found it if anything to be even better than first time around. I have a theory cooking that maybe it's because in an age of AI generating anything you want, when an artist has gone to the amount of care and craft with assembling music entirely from vinyl samples you can feel that attention really deeply. But then again this isn't a pitch meeting. FIVE STARS! BEATS GO BRRRR!

Jan 29 2026 Author

Sounding a bit dated now? Or maybe just overlistening back in the late 90s/early 00s as a stoner student. Going with 5 still for old times sake

Jan 27 2026 Author

10/10 fresh

Dec 03 2025 Author

The holy scripture of sample-based music. The album that walks out of the shadows wearing a hoodie and carrying 40 years of vinyl dust. Rating: 5/5 Short Review: A hypnotic, cinematic, fully-realized world built entirely out of other people’s sounds — yet somehow more original than 99% of music made with actual instruments. It’s moody, sprawling, echoey, surreal. Listening to it feels like wandering through an abandoned record store at midnight while your memories rearrange themselves. Favorite Track: Building Steam With a Grain of Salt — delicate, haunting, melancholy, and quietly explosive. It’s the whole album’s soul in one track.

Dec 22 2024 Author

Amazing album, absolute top of the feeling/atmospheric records of all time. For a long time I was only listening to Midnight In the Perfect World, and the song is great for sure, but in comparison to the rest of the album it doesn't really stand out. Every track is like a short, slightly melancholic story that creates an overarching theme, and MITPW is just one of those stories. Easily one of the top records on this list, in my opinion, and probably one of my favourite trip hop album, maybe even better than Massive Attack. Absolutely great stuff.

Dec 11 2024 Author

Piękny eksperyment, piękny chaos. Z jednej strony słyszę, jak prostymi środkami ten album został stworzony, z drugiej strony to wciąż jest kawał świetnej muzyki stworzonej przez jednego człowieka gdzieś w garażu. Współczesna oda do muzyki, bez rozróżniania na gatunki. Mam wrażenie, że na tej płycie wykorzystał wszystko - klasykę, jazz, synthy, funk, drum machine, hip-hop, wywiady, wycinki z filmów, co tylko chcecie. I gość sprawia, że to się łączy w jedną, spójną całość. "Stem" to absolutna perełka dla mnie. Słuchając tego mam wrażenie, jakbym dosłownie słuchał esencji wczesnych lat 90-tych. Ta płyta jest przede wszystkim intrygująca, zachęca do odkrywania i poszukiwań, a jednocześnie pozwala się w niej totalnie pogubić i po prostu porwać zmiennemu nurtowi. Jakbym miał czas na kolejne hobby, to po przesłuchaniu tego albumu kupiłbym sampler. Wahałem się długo między 4 a 5, ale chyba w ramach uznania za samo to, ile pracy i pasji musiało zająć samo zbieranie tych dźwięków pójdę w pięć.

Oct 24 2024 Author

surprisingly great all the way through

Dec 14 2021 Author

Still love this album. The beats, the bass, the samples, the soul. Especially noticed the sample from Bjork's Possibly Maybe on Mutual Slump, which made me very happy.

Dec 02 2021 Author

I'm very happy this album popped up, as it is already one of my favorite albums of all-time. It may be popular/over-rated in music circles on the internet, but I don't care about that. It's such an interesting, beautiful album with immense atmosphere. It captivates me like no other record has before, and that's just with samples and drums. Definitely has high replay value and is very memorable.

Jul 16 2021 Author

One of my favorite albums ever. For me, this is where electronic music began.

Jan 13 2021 Author

Elemental

Mar 31 2026 Author

forgot to type while listening but i liked this. it was nice.

Mar 24 2026 Author

This album is so impressive when you consider that DJ Shadow composed each track with nothing but turntables and a sampler. His compositions are textured with samples from multiple genres and art forms, including film and interviews. The result is an album that’s completely unique, organic, and ambient with heavy vibes and artistry. This was a great listen and obviously hugely influential.

Dec 23 2024 Author

I should like Endtroducing more than I do. It ticks pretty much every single box that I look for in music. But there has always been something about it that I find a bit … cold. It’s good, but it has never engendered any affection in me. But everyone else seems to think it’s amazing. I can appreciate the dusty crate driven craftsmanship.

Dec 18 2024 Author

2/1001. Beautiful record, had already listened to it a few times before. Took a while to click (listens with proper headphones, for starters). Its highs are sensational (Steam, Stem, Midnight). Only knocks I can see is that otherwise its repetition can get a bit stale, and I value lyricism a lot so its absence limits the upside of becoming a phenomenal album to me. Either way this album sits firmly in 8/10 territory and I could see it ascending just by virtue of more exposure to its deeper cuts and associating it with other life events.

Oct 28 2024 Author

Definitely not beating the lo-fi chill weed vibe allegations here. This whole album just feels easy to unwind to or have on in the back during a quiet/lazy day of work. I can see where someone could find this monotonous but this whole thing just flows together so easily. if I had to pick a specific part that stood out to me as a favourite it would be Midnight in a Perfect World

Feb 12 2024 Author

When this came out I avoided it for lost ideological reasons that would’ve been fed by the era’s wash of tepid trip-hop. Big beats, soft beats, dead beats, sugar beats, ubiquitous in every other stoner’s college latte lounge, utterly vile. A couple of years on, Simon and I attended an UNKLE set for free, and had a lovely conversation, only mentioning the music when I asked if the gig had started and was told Lavelle sans Shadow had been playing for half an hour. Thank goodness we had seats and each other’s sparkling company, otherwise blood would’ve been glugged by the goblet. 26 years later, I like this! Thoughtful splashes of big drums Pollock’d with drama and intent, the best tracks reminiscent of Morricone and Carpenter soundtracks. I also belong to the same vintage cycle club as the The Herbaliser. What was the prime of your youth like?

May 15 2026 Author

Yesterday's album was a Cocteau Twins work where it seemed like the treble was turned all the way up. This record feels like the bass got pushed up, instead. More electronic music (seriously, how much *IS* there on this list??), but this one was more to my tastes. Heavy sampling and a palatable, dreamy quality, this one hits better than some of the other electronic music we've had (it feels like LOTS of others). (3/5) Middle of the road stuff that's appropriate for a long drive.. not sure I'll be back but I appreciate the mixing artistry.

May 15 2026 Author

I think I just have a hard time respecting this stuff. Some of the instrumentation here is incredibly solid (drums, piano, electric guitar, horns), and it's laid together in interesting and provocative ways. But who's playing them, and how much does that matter? Sampling of this magnitude feels equivalent to chopping pictures out of a few dozen magazines and creating a collage that the becomes an entirely new piece of art, but in 2026, isn't that the equivalent of AI slop? No doubt I'm overthinking it and should just dig the parts I dig, but the judgmental asshole in me needs answers... As a composition, this is pretty good in places (Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain might have been my favorite track), a little boring and repetitive in others. Not sure that I'll ever feel called back to it, though, so it's another ceiling of 3/5 from me.

Dec 25 2024 Author

I am a fan of hip-hop and respect the context of this record and DJ Shadow's meticulous sampling. Many of the songs just aren't clicking for me, especially Organ Donor. Overall, I'd give this a 3.5, just barely rounded down to a 3 on this scale.

Apr 15 2024 Author

I initially came across DJ Shadow on various compilations, especially cover CDs from British music monthlies like Mojo, and some remixes. And I read about this album long before I ever heard it. This is the ur-text for instrumental hip hop, re-inventing the album patchworked out of samples. Less frenetic than its forebears (Three Ft High and Rising, Paul's Boutique, Nation of Millions, etc), it showed that trawling through the crates could yield atmospheric and open soundtracks. It established the blueprint for Dilla and the Avalanches. Moody, cinematic, and with a distinct trip-hop vibe, the material, is ultimately, a bit forgettable. But a pretty chill vibe. I do love the cover. I've spent many an hour digging crates in stores just like that. It felt like I had been seen.

May 15 2026 Author

In listening to this I heard a decades early precursor to those "chill beats to study by" trend, as one friend in my group put it. I certainly use music like that when necessary but it is background noise. This is brain scrubbing music. It’s a cipher of sound that lets the listener bring whatever thoughts they want to bring to the experience. My personal speculation is that is its appeal and why a great many people enjoy it. Myself, I could only muster indifference. I don't hate it, but neither does it excite me even to contemplation. Or did it? It certainly prompted a bit more thought than I expected this morning, I guess.

Apr 09 2024 Author

Shrug

Mar 30 2024 Author

more noise than music

Feb 12 2024 Author

Yet another I was puzzled by when it came out. It's built entirely from samples - great, but why? Dull as ditchwater, highlight is Organ Donor but when you're relying on Bach for a tune you're pretty low on ideas. Could be entirely AI-generated these days. Rubbish

Sep 28 2021 Author

Listened to this on a road trip, album pretty much finished, and I barely realised it was on. Not adding nor deducting points for working with Zack De La Rocha later down the track.

May 16 2026 Author

I don't hate it. You might be surprised to hear that, given the abysmal rating I'm giving the album. Admittedly, I'm a little proud of the rating. This is the first album I've come across in this project that 1) I was very familiar with before starting, and 2) I really don't like. My first one-star to a classic, highly--regarded album? Maybe it's a badge of honor. I respect it more than anything. I know it's a big deal to a lot of people, including other musicians. And that's fine. But I still find it monumentally boring. From the intro track, I always get tricked into thinking that the album will be full of exciting cuts and scratches, chopped-up sentences and the like. It isn't. Well, not entirely. That's about 10% of it. The other 90% is droning beats that go on far too long. Every time a new song starts, I hear the first beat loop, and I realize that this is the beat I am going to get tired of very quickly. I still like the vitality of The Number Song, and the kickass intro to Mutual Slump. That's about it. I cannot, for the life of me, get into the rest of the album. Everything about Endtroducing makes me want to listen to something else of which it reminds me. The mountain jazz of Eivind Aarset and Nils Petter Molvaer. The SimCity 4 soundtrack. Anything but this.

Nov 18 2025 Author

It was absolutely awful and I am not sure how this album could make any list.

Mar 11 2024 Author

DJ music. Pass.

May 14 2021 Author

Too experimental for my taste

Feb 02 2021 Author

Not a fan

May 20 2026 Author

Banger album. So many action sports videos have used tracks for parts

May 20 2026 Author

Some of the best beats I’ve ever heard, crazy that it’s all sampling

May 20 2026 Author

techy

May 19 2026 Author

Loved this album so much. Felt very SH2/SH3, and made me think a lot about Akira Yamaoka. Good stuff.

May 15 2026 Author

Ich liebe es!

May 14 2026 Author

midnight in a perfect world is so dreammyyyyy .... ! mutual slump (without overdubs) is also so peaceful ... it is reminding me a bit of what i recognise in OLI XL's music? there is also this 'pling' in the background that triggers me because it is similar to the sound of receiving an email on outlook lol

May 12 2026 Author

An album I know very well, although it makes me feel old knowing i was listening to this 30 years ago

May 10 2026 Author

Comfortable classic, comfortable 5. RYM: Y (#67) Saved a song: Y

May 10 2026 Author

I don't know what to think of what I listened to, other than I definitely will need to revisit it many times. I liked a lot of the beats and sampling choices, the thing that stood out the most was the repeated motifs throughout, and the sampling of Twin Peaks in the final song. I liked this. I want to listen to it more. Edit: I changed the rating. Upon many relistens, this album is near perfect. Each song could be singled out as a masterclass in sampling and instrumental hip-hop.

May 09 2026 Author

Not sure how I haven't heard this album before. This isn't RAP but a journey through some moody music through the mind of an artistic genius.

May 09 2026 Author

dj shadow going beast mode with the samples tbqh

May 07 2026 Author

great music for when I want to get a lot of work done and I'm also maybe thinking about the backrooms

May 03 2026 Author

A classic!

May 02 2026 Author

Unfassbar abwechslungsreicher Klassiker

Apr 30 2026 Author

No notes. Quite simply one of the best and most important albums of all time.

Apr 30 2026 Author

In my top 10 albums of all time...magnificent stuff 5/5

Apr 30 2026 Author

tenho uma certa inveja dos anos 90

Apr 28 2026 Author

Fucking the best

Apr 26 2026 Author

I liked this album much more than I thought I would after hearing that it was the first completely sampled record. If true, the album gets additional cred for its innovation and influence. Considering that this was really a bunch of bits strung together, the resulting tunes are much more cohesive than I was expecting. I found myself really enjoying the trippy vibe. When reading up on the album after my first listen, I learned that DJ Shadow felt like vocals would clash with the mood he was trying to evoke on the album. I agree. I especially think that forcing rap over these beats would not have worked. As someone who hoped this project would help me gain a greater appreciation of hip hop, I think I’m going to explore more instrumental work. I will be listening to this album again in the future. Both of sources of personal inspiration for new musical journeys factored into my rating.

Apr 24 2026 Author

There's subversive, there's immersive, & there's inventive: Entroducing..... is all three. The best trip-hop album out there, mainly b/c it's more hip-hop than it is trip-whatever, DJ Shadow's masterful debut simultaneously gives you an entrance & an exit point for the hip-hop universe. In other words, it is an elevated project that we're somehow still catching up w/, but it never asks too much of the listener - if you'd like, you could just turn this thing on & saunter thru its textures, excited now to check out what else the rappers & djs have to say. What I love most about it is that it's futurism & nostalgia at the same time: that's the gift of sampling, no? Here you are, blessed w/ this technology, but a dj's mind is historical, i.e., digging as dialectics, dig?

Apr 24 2026 Author

So good. Starts off strong and seems to get better and better as it goes on.

Apr 24 2026 Author

One of my go-to albums when it gets dark. Night drive? Perfect Night walk through town? Perfect Night train? Perfect Night cap before bed? Perfect

Apr 23 2026 Author

I tend not to read the site reviews before I leave my own, but I'm quite familiar with this album...I've owned it since I heard it at college. So I decided to read some of the reviews while giving it another listen, and maybe I shouldn't be shocked, but I was surprised at how many people see this as purely an album of samples. Which it is, 100%. But I guess that's the last thing on my mind when listening to this album. It's just a great and emotive album, regardless of the origin of its sounds. It's a hip hop record, but also ventures a little outside that, too. I came to this record back in the 90s just knowing "Midnight In A Perfect World", but fell in love with all of it. And I'm very happy to be listening to it again tonight.

Apr 23 2026 Author

Elsker at få en 5’er jeg aldrig har hørt før

Apr 23 2026 Author

Det trækker jo nok en smule op at man ved hvordan den er lavet, men ejjj hvor lyder det også bare lækkert helt i sig selv!