Endtroducing.....

Starts off deceivingly strong then boring for the rest of the album

Hiphop without obnoxious sexist, homophobic or overly sexual lyrics. Absolute gold. Also great for studying.

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One of my all time favorites and the absolute peak of hip hop/turntablism merging. The vastly varying tempos throughout keep it from getting boring and even the filler is cool to just figure out what the sample is from or what’s being said (“it’s the money!”). DJ Shadow has always forged his own path; he can do the hip hop DJ role easily and he can do the traditional set list DJ with electronic music but this kind of stuff is where he’s at his best. Experimental without losing a beat, sampling without any one sample taking main stage, mastering that sounds off until you realize how perfect it is a few phrases in. The drums in Mutual Slump alone are what guys spend a career making. I don’t have enough platitudes for this album, it’s just great. Perfect for any mood.

I guess it has significance to be included, but I found it a tad dull and way too all over the place. I don't know, I hard a time with that one.

It's not for me, but I can understand its importance to music.

I remember when this came out. I thought it was awesome. It opened a whole new world to me. 30 years later and I still revisit it periodically. I saw DJ Shadow not too long ago. Took my brother. Had to explain what a dj actually did to him. Realized I had any knowledge about this BECAUSE of DJ Shadow, originally. 5 Boolean: TRUE

I still love this album, 30 years old this year, and it still sounds exciting and interesting. So happy when I saw it pop up on my feed this morning. An easy 5 stars.

This was pretty good! It was mainly an instrumental album but it had some nice piano parts and interesting electronic aspects. There was some rapping and spoken word here and there but not a lot which I didn’t mind bc I was studying while listening. Overall I did enjoy it but it’s not really something I would return to, I do think it is worth a listen tho. 3.175/5

I’ve heard this one before and I still feel like the cover is astoundingly accurate. It sounds like someone has been through a record store picked up some random samples and shoved them together in a semi cohesive fashion. Not one for me.

Quite enjoyed it. You alright white boy

Хонтологические потрескивания вечного настоящего не смогли разбудить во мне призраков прошлого, кажется моя душа звучит немного по-другому

Насэмплировал на легендарный статус альбома Респект

возможно были занижены ожидания, потому альбом показался приятным, а так не фанат трип хопа, при этом всем тут какой-то экспериментальный хип хоп больше - 4

Eclectic and worth a second listen a bit all over the shop shifting tempos and rhythm.

Yeah, this sucks.

Classic

Loved it! Nice Neil Peart samples.

An album for some reason I had never got round to checking out after all the hype.. love it.

wow banger das piano die samples...c

I'd heard of this, but never actually given it a go. And... Well, this goes to show that this project has its moments. Sure, sometimes you get some 70's prog (ugh), or clapton cover album (ugh), or some 80's synth pop (uuugggh). But then you get this. Really enjoyed it. Reminds me a bit of the desert/stoner stuff I listen to on my own. There were elements of trip hop but without the pretentiousness. It even at times reminded me of another discovery from this project, In A Silent Way by Miles Davis. This was a soundscape, a dreamlike journey. Great stuff.

Alongside the singles, the jazz drums are a real treat. Low 5

Occasionally excited, but for long periods bored.

An enjoyable hour of low key plunderphonics which, like The Avalanches debut, establish the form and show just how fluid and satisfying you can make medleys of cut up and weaved together samples.

DJ Shadow is getting a low 4 from me, i've been meaning to listen to this record for years. It's skillful and impressive and often engaging but not hitting me as hard as it seems to for others

This is one of the few albums that I had with me on my ipod driving across the country for a job during college. I could justify my high rating talking about the groundbreaking sample work etc but honestly this is just a personally important album.

Digging this, lofi vibes, some rap some instrumental

Not for me this. That's not to say that it's poor... just that it's not my thing. It felt a little all over the place, but I guess when you are stringing samples together there is that danger. I don't feel qualified in the hip-hop genre to give a full detailed breakdown of this... what I will say is that it's good to not be listening to trash talk for a change.

I liked it very much. But I've always been a bigger fan of The Private Press.

AW yeah

not my cup of tea but instrumental are soo good

Some great instrumentals wow, great ambient music, oniric hip-hop wasn't a thing i expected to listen today (that's what trip hop is isn't it)

"composed almost entirely of samples" checks out and it sounds pretty cool. makes for pretty good focus music

Everything I don't like about this gendre

Fire - so ahead of its time, reminds me of 2010s breakcore

5 all the way

An ode to crate digging that became a genuinely genre bending, ground breaking, great sounding, seminal piece of art. If it's not in my top ten albums of all time, it's definitely a top twenty pick. An amazing, amazing record that was impossible for DJ Shadow to top. 10/10

Kinda bland, but unique in it being nearly 100% samples. Just zoned out while listening to it.

Background music in a point and click game with a lot of dialogue

sampling is art. A true hiphop sampling love letter. As a student of the game it is very much appreciated! (3.5/5.0)

This was not what I was expecting at all and I really enjoyed it. Petition for artists to no longer call themselves DJ so-and-so please as I assumed this was going to be trash based on that. But what probably needs to change in that case is me making assumptions. After all, we know what happens when you make assumptions…

I think I love plunderphonics. It is crazy what DJs can do with a bunch of unrelated stuff. Some of it is some great chill beats, other times it's a bit intense, and there are some quite eerie tracks here too. I loved every second of it. That Twin Peaks sample at the end was honestly just the cherry on top. Favorite Track: What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)

Organ Donor! Beats!

Not good - there are way better DJs out there - very BORING!

Skönt album att lyssna på men inte mer än så för mig. Omslaget är fantastiskt dock.

Really enjoyable album. Impressive to construct such a deeply layered and technically proficient album given the technology of 1996. It is an album I would have likely never encountered and am glad I heard it. I won't likely go back to it, though it does make for great background music.

I never realized that instrumental hip-hop was a thing. Samples are the instruments here, beats and melodies and snatches of dialogue overlapping into waves of sound. It's interesting, and clearly represents a tremendous amount of work, but it's not something I'm likely to replay.

1996. Debut studio album. Composed almost entirely of samples from vinyl records.

this one’s been with me for a while. i adore the urban nocturnal feeling of this, and the beats are masterfully crafted. definitely a product of severe nerdiness. which is a good thing! deserves to be one of the 1001? yes for its masterful use of sampling and deep understanding of hip hop production

Generally not a fan of DJs but this is at least a little interesting. Some fun mixing but overall just too long for me.

never

On the boring side, but some cool sampling going on. 3 stars

I think this is a good album, but not really an all-timer for me the way it is for others. I think think it is interesting the way it takes hip-hop style production and transforms it into something different, but I also think some of the things I don't love about instrumental electronica kind of surface. Still, there's some cool stuff here with "Midnight in a Perfect World", "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt", and "The Number Song". 3.5 stars.

What a bloody fantastic album. Just beautiful blazing stuff. True 90s classic. Easy 5 stars. Midnight In a Perfect World? More like Midnight in a perfect track!

Vibey. Great as background music, not really my vibe. Extremely repetitive which is great if you’re not really paying attention to it. Like the different sounds used to create a very specific feel. Feel I would enjoy it more with a few drinks in my system lol

Very influential album for my taste

Despite the cornball name (heavy indicator of him being white), this was very much a surprise love. The first song started and I was thrusted into Fatboy Slim/hip hop 90s slop. But as quickly as I feared, I quickly was relieved. This is a master art of sampling and vibe-setting.

Maybe one of the first hip-hop albums we’ve listened to that made me think, huh that’s pretty decent. No coitus skits. Highly instrumental, but usually unpredictable. Actually enjoyable. Maybe it’s rap I don’t like and not necessarily hip-hop.

Very cool beats, Mr. Shadow

Brandon called this "prog-rap," and now I'm disturbed. Despite that revelation, I mostly enjoyed this! This is 7x77 times better than that Fatboy Slim record. Once again, I don't exactly understand the function of an instrumental hip-hop album...with the right rapper, this would be even better because the beats rock...but they are, at the end of the day, just beats in their current form. I can hear the shape of hip-hop production that was to come. Can you imagine Ye or Kendrick or Travis over these tracks??

MUYY BUENO, superó mis espectativas, re instrumental con mucha bata y scratch (muy mi palo, it's giving gorillaz) tmb es bastante chill pero m gusta cmo jugaron con los ritmos y los sonidos q son excelentes. Temas re largos, añadí 3

Groovy, funky, and sometimes pretty mesmerizing. Overall enjoyable, even if it’s not something I’d necessarily rush to relisten to. 4/5

Was aware of this one and planned to listen someday. It's pretty neat and super impressive how this record is built nearly entirely by samples. He's able to build some very different moods throughout, sometimes sounding glitch or jazzy or trippy. Fun listen for some instrumental hip hop.

This is so boring it actually makes me angry.

Endtroducing..... wasn't what I was expecting, but I quite enjoyed it!

Wikipedia has informed me that this album was the first to be entirely created from samples. And that it inspired Radiohead to sample and loop drums on OK Computer. 3.5.

Organ Donor, especially with the video, makes this album.

Dj Khalid

Chill asf

What a fun, funkalicious drumtastic time! The samples of old movies were great. Masterful mixing. 10 out of 10.

This album is classic end-to-end and I still enjoy listening to it as much today as the first time way back when it was unlike anything I'd ever really heard before. Great production, great samples, everything just flows so organically.

Fire

A landmark album that showed what turntables were capable of.

Owned this since it came out, bought it in Selectadisc on Berwick St in Soho. Track 2 is an all-timer.

Foundational to the genre and several others besides.

Historien om skivan får det att låta banbrytande 1996. 2026 låter det som espresso house

Boards of Canada but make it hip hop. Aldrig lyssnat igenom hela förut, tycker ändå det näääästa håller upp till hypen. Svag fyra

Över förväntan! Delvis pga låga förväntningar. Riktigt ballt att det är vinylsamplat. Stark 3a

Sinnessjukt att det är lejonparten vinylsamplingar! Tänk va kul han hade i skivaffärerna när han letade samples. Så jävla imponerad av sånt här, stark 4a

Det är säkert otroligt skickligt DJande, men det är galet bjäring för undertecknad. Olyssningsbart

Good. Could be shorter

I mean as a technical achievement it’s impressive but

Википедия пишет что это первый альбом, составленный целиком из семплов. И на удивление звучит цельно и бесшовно.

this is the debut album of dj and producer joshua paul davis, better known by his alias as dj shadow. the album itself is a hip-hop styled collection of beatflips, featuring an absurd amount of record sample usage, programmed using an akai MPC. the album was quite successful in europe, but it took a little bit for it to find success in the united states. even with that in mind, the album is VERY critically acclaimed, with various lists, notably RYM hailing this record as one of the best ever album releases of 1996. i absolutely love how mysterious and misty this album sounds. in the world of electronic music, not just downtempo, but the overlaps between IDM and other similar beat-focused genres, instead of music to dance to, it's music to sit and think about. and i love music like that. both electronic and hip-hop heads will sit in awe of the mixing, looping and audio-playing expertise on display... this is probably some of the best sample-heavy music you'll ever hear in your life. two big thumbs up.

Very good Hip Hop Album. Definitely not the last time I listened to it. (On Apple Music)

I'm not that much a fan of the longer ambient stuff but some of the album was pretty good

I liked the beats more than I expected for a fully instrumental album. It's very listenable

I just don’t dig this scene, man

this was nothing

At the time it came out I struggled a bit but returning to this again I really enjoyed it.

The pride of KDVS, and SoleSides crew innovator; DJ Shadow stretched the limits on his debut LP. Taking inspiration from The Bomb Squad and other sonic innovators that came before him, Shadow set out with his trusty Akai MPC and Technics SL-1200 turntable, as well as a Alesis DAT Recorder and forever changed the Hip Hop landscape.

conceptually, it's an interesting album. however, I often found myself digging the individual samples more than the final product.

It’s really pretty boring honestly. Nobody is listening to hip hop for the musicality- its heart is in its lyrics and rhymes - so what exactly is the point of removing it all? And then to go on for over an hour. A few of the tracks were okay, some were downright annoying.

own

A pretty impressive display of craftsmanship and astute sample work. I won’t be listening in full again, but it made for interesting an office listen. All in all it didn’t bother me, but I was riveted either.

Listening session: september 29th/30th, while getting ready in the morning Listened to before: no Thoughts: I really like when sampling is done well so this was an interesting album Favourite tracks: Building Steam With A Grain Of salt, Midnight In A Perfect World & What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) - Blue Sky Revisit

Do you need to hear this? Yes. Does that mean you’re going to enjoy it? Probably not. Really impressive crate digging, really cool instrumentals, but I have to give it a 3 for the fact that I don’t think I’d ever come back to it. But it rips, it’s so good. We’ll give it the four it deserves.

I found this strangely compelling. I enjoyed it.

If you’re into 90’s rap but thought it would be better without any rapping, boy do I have the album for you.

The Ship of Theseus for your ears....is this something? I love this shit....just doesn't have a ton of replay-ability for me, so I can't give it a five.