Endtroducing.....

What a long album! Zoinks. It's different, that's for sure.

This was significantly more interesting than i expected. A ethereal tubular bells vibe mixed in with a bit of hip hop beat. It was quite atmospheric and there were enough cool tracks to make it worth listening to.

Me gusta mucho primero porque es muy relaxing todo el disco y segundo porque tiene mucha variedad en el uso de samples, desde cosas sacadas de temas de jazz hasta creo que algo de un tema de Nirvana.

No me esperaba darle esta calificación. Pero se la merece.

Le pongo las 5 porque no me esperaba encontrar con algo de hip-hop con samples y que sobretodo me haya gustado. Primer escucha más que sastisfecha

An interesting audio experiment that I enjoyed more than I expected.

Amazing soundscapes. The drums are the key to keeping the beat going.

A record which completely changed the way music could be used for artistic expression and challenged preconceptions about ownership and legitimacy in popular. The sum total is also an extremely engaging, powerful record which never drags across its hour run time. It’s remarkable to look at the primitive sampling and beats which supplement Run DMC’s first record and compare it to this - a record in which hip-hop literally eats itself, so to speak. Not only did it reappropriate the music being sampled, it made sampling the sole basis for the music to exist. Instrumental works which eschew traditional song structures can often be hard for me to digest, but this record is never too abstract for its own good. An absolute game-changing masterpiece.

Listening through this album I can really hear what an influence he had on some of the sample artists that followed later on. Incredibly smooth mixing. This album gets close to the idea that if you didn't know you were listening to samples you would have a hard time picking them out.

Incredible album, well deserving of the praise it gets. Fun to just listen to on its own, but doubly fun to look up the samples and see what you recognize. Also, extra respect for the Twin Peaks references.

I loved this album. I had never heard of DJ Shadow. It's impressive how the album was made. It sounds so cohesive despite the potential chaos of such heavy sampling. I don't have any songs to call out by name because the album was excellent from front to back.

Its a nice chill sample vibe

Now we're talkin'. This album was such a pleasure when it came out. I really enjoyed revisiting this classic.

4.5

Was probably groundbreaking for its time. Not so much now. This was a long listen.

Solid electronic music. 3.5/5

3/5 not what I was expecting so it was surprisingly good minus a few songs

Some good tracks, but after a while it becomes coffee shop background music.

Some cool layering on some cool beats, but man instrumentals just don't do it for me. Way too long for anything to stand out and shine

Caught me by surprise. Lead off song had a very compelling hook. Heavy on percussion but a bit light lyrically. Absolutely spot on for the music around the drum line. Worthy of additional listens

A glorious lucky dip of an album. Whilst some tracks made me feel like I was in year 9 at school, set loose with an imagination and a Yamaha keyboard but this time, joined by an orchestra for good measure... Others transported me to a sunny rooftop at a boujee cocktail bar, next to the River Thames... When I was young, and had money to be drinking at boujee cocktail bars next to the River Thames.

didn't expect to love this as much as i did! so, so 90's but in the best way, excellent range of sounds and love the experimentation throughout.

This album brings a lot of memories back on listening to it, both from high school and college, and not to mention it is masterfully executed. This is one of the greats, for sure.

I mean, lofi hip hop owes its existence to artists like DJ Shadow. Respect where respect is due.

Bit weird, not terrible

I’ll give it 3 for merit on its sampling but overall wasn’t too keen on the album.

Building steam and midnight good songs

I liked this way more than I expected to. Normally I put shit on this sort of stuff but this kinda sucked me in. Apparently the whole thing is samples + an 808 (or similar) but the only tune I definitely recognised was Metallica's "Orion". Another bit sounded like one of the themes from FVII but I think this predates that. The whole album was probably too long, but that's just standard fare for electronica. I'd listen to some of this again for sure. A strangely high 4/5.

Not my kind of music 3/10 probably won’t look into again

On balance, I liked this a whole lot more than I thought I was going to. I expected it to be an album that you’d listen to out of obligation due to its historical significance as an early example of sampling, but that wouldn’t hold together musically. I was wrong. I didn’t like all the tracks (I could do without “Napalm” for example), but others (like “Transmission 2” and the Soul tracks) had a strong appeal to me, and I think its because of their ambient sound. If only the whole album sounded like that, I’d rate it higher. One side note: the second Soul track sounds a lot like Radiohead’s Climbing Up the Walls. Not sure which one came first.

I'm not new to this album, but it is an album that has taken a considerable time to grow on me. This time listening has been far and away my favorite. Halfway through it's easily a 5-star album. A remarkable piece that slides uniquely into some unclaimed space between hip-hop, sampledelia, and IDM. As indebted to Grandmaster Flash and Public Enemy as it is to Brian Eno and Aphex Twin. The only post-1990, sample-based album I can think of that touches this in terms of influence and importance is J. Dilla's Donuts or Danger Mouse's Grey Album, but those are each wholly different affairs, unique and influential for entirely different reasons. Endtroducing... plays like THE essential piece on sampling. It's like a history of sampling. Obsessed with its own art form it manages to work as simultaneously as a critique of itself and an oral history. Its a haunted record too, as any sample-based record should be. Its legacy continues to haunt me today. I get chills thinking about DJ Shadow in the basement of some Sacramento record store cataloguing moments that might someday collage into the songs featured here. It's a masterclass in the artform. Perhaps the definitive piece. I've reached the end without noting a single dull moment. Maybe one...maybe by the time we get to the 9-minute-and-21-second "Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain - Medley" the album runs a little long. But I hate to criticize an album for being too long. Especially one whose catalogued exhaustion is its greatest strength. Plus the meandering rhythm of that song is a unique highlight that allows the previously pumping album a bit of time to drift and settle somewhere beneath its own weight before signing off. So, 5 stars.

An extremely divisive record in my household! Mum loved it, Pa’s ears were burning. I found it pretty mellow and inoffensive for the most part, except when those weird guttural sounds bubble up in What Does Your Soul Look Like. Most songs make for great background music. I think I have trouble taking instrumental hip hop seriously as anything more than that, and this album is no exception. side note- are we seriously like 50 albums in and this is our first hip hop record?? And it’s by a white guy no less 🙄

How to review an album like this! Something that’s so self-evidently influential, that it must have inspired every producer within a 15-year timespan afterwards… from Alchemist to No ID to Nujabes to Doom. It’s all there. I get why it’s on the list… it’s very significant. Supposedly it’s the album that got Radiohead to start sampling on OK Computer! It’s kind of the moment when it all crystallizes for hip hop… when sampling really takes on a life of its own, is coming into its own as an art. And I’m really happy that 1001 made me finally sit down and listen to this album… one I always said I’d get around to. It’s also really, really interesting to listen to still. There are things about it that are funny, like the skits (which hip hop is now replete with). There’s sentimentality… I can just picture a younger Nujabes listening to this and the gears start turning. And still, there are aspects of the production that are surprising, or feel like you haven’t heard it copied to death yet. All on an MPC60, which makes the record sound both familiar and yet like sonic unobtanium. It’s the way samples are supposed to sound to so many producers, because this is how they hear it in their heads, but it’s more truly lo-fi than all of that. Inspiring as heck. Even the super dated parts feel fresh on this album. Long live sampling! 4/5.

Sooo cool! You're watching in real time as sampling as an art form is being explored. Of course by 1996 sampling had been around for a little while, but this record feels like a much more mature version of hip hop. Some of these songs sound like they could have come out 10 years later! With records like these I always tend to feel like it's sort of a wasted opportunity. Where's the rapper?? Or at least the singer? Some of these tracks would be SO good with someone on them. That's probably just my personal taste but... I can't say I wasn't making up some lyrics in the car listening.

It’s not usually my taste, but there was a sense of mystery and uneasiness that is very powerful throughout the album. Perfect for doing homework or studying, as it has minimal vocals and relies more on instrumentals. I liked it more than thought I would.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Building steam with a grain of salt, Changeling, Stem/Long stem, Organ donor

Not my first time hearing this album, but it did click for me more this time around. Mellow and cold feeling to me. Liked the first few songs more than the last few. Favorites were Building Steam with a Grain of Salt and Changeling/Transmission.

Actually pretty cool. Hypnotic psychedelic hip hop. I definitely appreciated that there was hardly any rapping

No

The samples were extremely well done and professional I can appreciate that but the songs dragged on for too long and got boring. It didn’t have a story to it at all and didn’t peak my interest particularly.

Seems incredible to me this one is from the mid nineties. Rich and intense sound, I will start searching for some vinyl to add to my electronic music collection.

Overall good but not exactly my style. I like my hip hop a little less aggressively 90s than this.

Hip-hop instrumental. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

Instrumental hip hoptrip hopplunderphonics, sampledelia.

I really just didn’t care for this album. I wouldn’t listen to it again- it was longer than I’d like it to be and just not worth it. It was interesting at times with the various sounds but nothing up my alley.

I love the concept - trip hop with no vocals, mostly samples put together to create a groove. There's a lot to enjoy here - e.g. I love tracks like "Changeling" and "What Does Your Soul Look Like/4" "Stem/Long Stem"- that's how I want the entire record to sound; not exactly the same, but these are tracks that you can really feel. The negatives though....it's inconsistent overall, especially early on; there are many jarring moments (e.g. "Mutual Slump"); too often for me the tracks are aimless and don't go anywhere. The sounds and grooves are individually pretty cool but too often it's hard to really settle in. It's a bit of nitpicking - overall I like it, would listen again and probably selectively pick out 6-7 tracks. 7/10 3 stars

Excellent stuff. Had written this off before I’d even heard it. This is the true beauty of the exercise!

Found the theme tune for Newstalk FM

My favorite line: She has eyes as big as jolly ranchers Uhhh very chaotic?? No real lyrics?? Not bad to listen to, especially the first two songs, but definitely will not return to.

IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS BEATS.

I liked when it got spooky. More of a Portishead guy myself, but this was very solid. Is that Nardwuar on the cover?

Not my style, while the production is great it’s too wacky and lacking vocals for me

I don't like this creation, sorry.

Instrumental which I think is a first for this list. Great and very valmong for the most part

A handful of really good tracks on here

Chill and cool.

Chill beats to study to

Never heard of it, liked it!

"Maureen's got five sisters, they all got ass. One of them has eyes as big as Jolly Ranchers. Beautiful girl, she's a beautiful girl. Mhm." To say this album was foundational to my understanding and eventual love for hip-hop would be an understatement. For a little over an hour, DJ Shadow crafted a atmosphere that weaved quotes from television shows and obscure films with the trip-hop and downbeat/breakbeat sounds that were popular for the time. Even twenty-five plus years on, Endtroducing..... remains a pivotal moment in a time where hip-hop was not just fractured amongst territorial forces but also commercially motivated for crossover appeal. A sensational turning up the nose and a magnificent tribute to what once was.

It was okay

Live even more amazing, long live DJ Shadow

Okay

I've listened to this many times before but it never gets old for me. The sampling and mixing here are absolutely brilliant, proving beyond a (DJ) shadow of a doubt that DJ'ing is an art. Endtroducing... is a masterwork in a craft that goes consistently underrated and stays understated.

DJ Shadow and all of the tracks on Endtroducing were new to me. I generally liked to groove of most of the tracks. I marked "Changeling" as my favorite, but I think the album could grow on me. I'd be interested in hearing more from the artist. The shorter tracks which were about a minute long, with more spoken word samples, felt like tracks that I would want to skip on a second listen.

Loved this album in high school but found it deeply boring upon relistening. Sample at the start is an amazingly arrogant way to start off and you really need to come with bangers after. This just didn’t do that. More influential than good.

I should like this, but I just can’t get into it

Great tunes

Finally!!! Yes. Just a stunning album

Didn't relisten. Hip hop/Turntabalism

Wasn’t really my kind of listen. My pallet isn’t quite up to what was on this album but it was definitely different

Wow, was this album long. I can see why it was so influential, the hybrid of trip-hop, ambient music and electronica is unique, but it ultimately was just background music for me. Super cool record that I don't foresee myself ever really coming back to. Favorite Tracks: Building Steam With A Grain of Salt Least Favorite Tracks: Napalm Brain

this is the first blind spot album for me. even though i’ve never listened to endtroducing before (sorry i am a fraud), i am so glad this album is in the rotation. i love jazz rap, and i love soul samples, and albums like this is foundational for a lot of the rap i love today. deejaying (djing? dj-ing?) is a lost art in our modern era. producers like madlib are legendary, but they’re only legendary because folks like dj shadow paved the way. there’s something about a legitimate, real record scratch on a track that just gets me. i’m not one to listen to (non-jazz) purely instrumental work often, but i can definitely appreciate this album for what it is. songs like building steam with a grain of salt are a love letter to the soul/funk that paved the way for sampling and hip-hop instrumentals. songs like the number song place this album in time with contemporaries like aphex twin. these tracks are long, and some of them are a little heavy/kind of tough listens, but there’s a serious artistic intent behind every song that i just absolutely dig. i’m glad i was able to get to this one. it’s a staple in a genre full of blind spots for me.

I mean it's nice background music, another album people promote to show how much more "in the know" they are than you. I'll prefer an album with songs I can sing along to 100% of the time.

A phenomenal album. So, so good with such a strong sense of theme and flow. One of trip-hop's finest albums.

A classic, milestone album 4+/5

Notes - Instrumental sample-based hiphop album - Found sounds, vocal manipulation, unconventional drum sampling - Unique sound and mood - Samples pulled from albums found in used record bins - A lot of the songs use a sort of contrast of samples and sounds that shouldn’t go together but work in the context of the album - Kinda feels like this was the jumping off point of the whole lo-fi hip hop genre - Kinda reminds me of j dilla and nujabes Fav - Mutual slump - Really cool vibe with the super resonant drums and muted keyboard sample & noisy elements Least fav - Organ donor - I like the idea of using the organ but I think it sort of falls apart in the second half 4/5

It's ok - It covers quite a few styles and moods, but most of it I'm not that into beyond general background music. Some tracks I really dig and are definitely my kind of thing (like Midnight in a Perfect World) but I wouldn't revisit the album beyond that.

This album changed my life.

una joyita

I am always one for pushing the genre but I just found it kinda boring in most parts

The whole album felt like a soundtrack to some post-apocalyptic/cyberpunk-ish sci-fi game. I could see some of the tunes being played in a neon-lighted bar where humanoid robots play them on instruments made of scrapyard metals while others pretend to drink their oils to mimic what people of the past use to do. Others were made for some action running-fighting sequence or cutscene, others were just ambient. Usually this ability to evoke such kind of feelings and imagination is what I rate highest for albums, but sadly here it's not enough. For one thing some parts are just noise to me and it's simply too long. For other part, it's nice music for something but without the "something" it's just not enough. The significance in it's context and how influential it was is undeniable which makes it all the more hard to rate but I can't push myself to give this 4 stars.

I feel a little out of my depth with this one. As with jazz, I don't think I've got the right vocabulary or understanding of this type of music to say much beyond whether I like it or not. It's an impressive undertaking, a kind of collage of sound fixed to a hip-hop frame. It must've taken a long time to make this sound so cohesive and disciplined. But did I enjoy it? At times. Did it challenge me? At times. How to score such endeavour?

Yeahhhh, I don't know. I don't dislike the mood, but neither am I moved by anything here one way or another. Using the word "shadow" feels appropriate. Sometimes shadows can be creepy, but then you realize they're just shadows and you're like why did I have an emotional response to that at all? It's a shadow. Now... imagine that shadow had a laptop and synth. Boom. Truthfully, I liked the Justice album better although the site also conspired to keep me away from reviewing it. Damn you Brexit!!!

This was such an influential album. Without DJ Shadow, the phenomenon that is Lofi Girl and the dozens of other "chill tracks to study to" YouTube imitators wouldn't exist. My studying days are long past but I turn to this kind of jam on a weekly basis to GSD. It's chill but driving, interesting but not distracting. The production quality is so good that my subconscious has something to listen to and I'm not going to get tripped up by anything problematic. Overall, it's just a great album.

I absolutely LOVED this record when it came out. It was mind-blowing. However, either my tastes have changed or the musical world has caught up with DJ Shadow because it felt a bit pedestrian. Strange. Still going to give it 4 for old time's sake, but if I was listening now, I think it might be a low 3.

Great background noise, great mixing, great alignment of different genres that share a beat. 4/5.

Hip hop? Jazz? Ambient? All three??? Will be very good on a night shift

Thought I would hate this. I was expecting it to be like an hour of Sandstorm by Darude. But I was pleasantly surprised. Loved that he samplemteal instruments and not all synths. Some real contemporary beats in here.

Surprised at how enjoyable this was. 3.5/5

Fun, interesting album to chill out to.

Soort rauwe versie van 90’s hip-hop. Album met echte headbangers. Alleen niet echt voor mij.

Grooves and Beats

This was a very cool listen! I can definitely hear the mixes that inspired other artists (beastie boys, fatboyslim) from around this time.

Wall to wall genius

idk yet

Hip-hop instrumental. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

Great record. Bought this on vinyl a few years ago. It’s an album to put on and let it wash all over you. A hip hop, sampling masterclass. Highlights: Building Stream With A Grain of Salt, The Number Song, Changeling, Mutual Slump

One of my favourite albums and an incredibly important album in the development of modern music. "Endtroducing....." was the first album comprised entirely of samples and set the template for much of the way we produce today as well as being a huge influence on my music in general. Highlight Track: Stem/Long Stem - this track has some great memorable vocal sample moments "Waiting to be heard on my traffic offenses"! And some gnarly processed distorted breakbeats in the first half.

No.

I've never really clicked with this album but I appreciate the heck out of it - the technical wizardry on display is astounding, and DJ Shadow conjures up some quite eerie vibes in impressive fashion

Best album to run to in a long time, unexpectedly brilliant

Utter classic, brilliant from start to finish.

Best Foot Forward- 5/10 Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt- 7/10 The Number Song- 7/10 Changeling- 9/10 Transmission 1- 5/10 What Does Your Soul Look Like Pt.4- 5/10 Untitled- 6/10 Steam / Long Stem- 4/10 Transmission 2- 5/10 Mutual Slump- 4/10 Organ Donor- 5/10 Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96- 7/10 Midnight In A Perfect World- 6/10 Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain- 5/10 What Does Your Soul Look Like Pt.1- 6/10 Transmission 3- 5/10 Endtroducting.....- 6/10

hvad fuck Noget af det er larm, noget er det er lowkey dj til loppemarked i plagwitz vibe, f.eks. "What does your soul look like?"

Super chill, be try experimental and samply. Really like it. Favs: Stem/Long Stem, Organ Donor, Napalm Brain/ Scatter Brain

9th September 2022 Listened during the day while working from home in response to the death of the queen. Went to Freddy’s flat in the afternoon before Fritha and James came to stay for the weekend. Not hugely memorable but good background music. Again, if you were in a field at 3am, amazing.

Few good beats. Hardly seems like an album. Even a beat one at that.

Inégal de par sa nature, l'album m'a quand même fait découvrir un DJ que je ne connaissais que de nom. Approche originale pour l'époque, mais je crois que les chansons s'apprécient mieux en live qu'en album. Du moins, j'ai pas l'habitude d'écouter ça en char!

So good. Sums up so much of the 90s - 4/5

Un bon dj j’ai biennaime ca drtent et ca sonne super bien.les mix sont bons. 3.90

Cool album made with only samples. Smooth.

Ovaj obožavam

Not one I would ever have chosen, but one I will definitely come back to! Might be better suited as background music for me, while studying or cycling, but enough to keep the interest if I'm listening "properly" too.

Slick mixing

Quintessential Trip Hop Album, 4/5 Highlight- "Stem/ Long Stem"/"Transmission 2"

电子,****

Hmmm. I enjoyed this more than expected, but apparently less than most folks. Still, really enjoyed the more chill, atmospheric bits. Then, other pieces of the sampling just sounded like a mishmash of whatever.

Very interesting album. If you’re a hip hop fan it is a must. It is a prelude to all the sampling done from the late 90s to present. I can definitely see how this album has its thumbprints all over hip hop. The Number Song and Stem/Stem Long were my favorite songs.

When it’s not about the lyrics, the talent of the instruments, the sound design, it’s simply about production. I’ve never heard of DJ Shadow or of this album, or heard any references to it, but then again I’m only just now learning about the concept of music production. It’s always been about the lyrics and songs for me, not about the production. As a historical marker this kind of music brings us into the new age and certainly marks a change in the winds when it comes to music and recording. Influential not for its ability to pull at your heart strings or make you identify with a certain lyric, but simply because of how it was made. Not my style, wouldn’t put any of these songs on my playlist, but I appreciate it for its historical and cultural value and respect the innovation that comes through so clearly. Made me feel melancholy at times, relaxed at others, but mostly I just waited for it to be over. My favorites: Mutual Slump, Organ Donor, Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain

Never heard of this artist or album before. I found it a compelling and haunting collection of sounds. Great fun, with beats that we’re driving at times but also many reflective moments. This helped make the difference between hip-hop and rap very clear to me.

Solid drum and bass album, very brief interludes before kicking into the next beat. Had this on while working and definitely was vibing, lots of great samples in here with deep layers.

expertly sampled beats. dark, ponderous and sentimental

Op organ donor na meh

Changed my life back in 2000. The mushrooms helped, but still.

Amazing what can be created from other material.

Not my thing. Alright techno music but didn’t engage me

Holds up to repeated listening. Great beats and rhythms. Scratching not annoying or ridiculous. One for the ages.

Building steam is fire rest of the album is mostly average

The production on this is still inventive, atmospheric, and entrancing. I love the mysterious and esoteric vibe it has to it. Even the cover art lends it this underground, music-nerd, crate-digging, polyglot panache. Building Steam With A Grain of Salt is an all time song title.

When this first started I thought it was going to be another boring ass mfin album with no words and all beats. But you know what? When this album ended i wanted to keep listening. The back half of the album is just super chill and reminded me of pink floyd. Good album! 6/10

This was a better version of the avalanches album

Not my cup of tea, but it was interesting to hear.

Lots of mixing, tripping to interrupting songs. I like it a lot! Ah over the place, lots of samples

Very interesting to listen to- there's no clear cut classification in my mind. Maybe Trip-Hop/Electronica but it merges from track to track with samples, drum beats and synth. It's good to have playing in the background or to chill to.

I like a lot of DJ Shdaow's work, and really enjoyed this album. Groundbreaking

Wow, a fully all-instrumental hip-hop album, entirely composed on the sampler but nonetheless lushly orchestrated. (7/10) FT: Midnight in a Perfect World, Building Steam with a Grain of Salt

I thought this was mids.

Blown away with this. Inventive use of samples and an experimental treatment of them - this must be a very early example of using glitches, preceded only by Aphex twin i'd imagine. He creates an incredible mood and the tunes are really original (for the time at least).

Classic, essential album for sampling

Example.

Why have I not bought this yet?? Maybe I should check 1200s on trademe. Great drum sounds and bass lines, haven’t heard this for years, and surprisingly chill most of the time, especially when compared with the rest of the genre

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.

Enjoyed this, for something 26 years old it doesn't sound particular dated. Pretty phenomenal for a debut record.

I didn't realize this was 100% made from samples on a single sampler. Really impressive. Great beats.

not the best album ever, but it is VERY VERY close. enjoyed most of it!!

The technical achievement of this album's construction aside, I quite like the end result! There's good music to be had here. However, at the same time I find there's a slight but definitive lack of traits to make me go back and re-listen to this album (or, for that matter, DJ Shadow's library in general). It's probably the result of building the entire album out of samples without a spine of its own, but it means the album is more of a curiosity than a pillar in the field of music.

love this. but a slight quibble w/ the book.. > it paved the way for the continued success of experimentally-minded artists as diverse as Massive Attack, Radiohead, and Björk, to name just a few lol this is such a weird way to put it, when these bands — exempting radiohead, who wouldn't put out anything like this until kid a and amnesiac in 2000 & 2001 — paved the way for dj shadow's initial success with albums like: - tricky, maxinquaye, 1995 - massive attack, blue lines, 1991 - bjørk, post, 1995 - portishead, dummy, 1994 (edited)

Gillar ju Building steam with a grain of salt. Inte hört resten

I remember reading an article when this was released that DJ Shadow would go to record stores and move the CD album from the electronic section to the hip-hop section. I was amused. I would argue that this fits in no single section and all sections at once. There are layers and layers of samples that comprise this release, many of them forgotten bits that somehow form a cohesive mood. This is mood music of the highest caliber.

I don’t get the appeal of DJ “albums”. Maybe it’s generational.

Meh. Probably carefully crafted but missing that X-factor that really lapels me love an album. Maybe it’s because I’m used to hearing rapping over beats.

Pretty frickin cool

DJ Shadow might as well be a drummer so perfectly crafted his drum loops are. What is certain is that he is a virtuoso in turntablism.  This record is fantastic start to finish, plenty of surprising twists and turns, and lots of creativity going on. The only issue I have is, as with most albums from the CD era, its length. Also, for some reason, my mind doesn't seem to be willing to "stay" on it, but that I think it's because I need to spend more time with the album in order to tame the bugger monkey. I surely recommend this one. 

Genre defining album. Such a brilliant record from start to finish!

this album is an interesting creation. i find dj shadow's process and the concept behind this album fascinating. using uncommon songs to combine together to create a wholly original hour of music... it's a unique approach to an album. overall, it was unremarkable to me. not bad, but it didn't do much for me.

Huh. I found this to be unremarkable. From an artistic standpoint, I'm intrigued by the idea of taking nothing but samples and using it to create something new, but in the case of this album, and maybe the entire genre, the final product just isn't my thing.

Essential trip hop. Excellent album and has a spot in regular rotation.

Holy Shit! My first solid 4,4,4,4,4,4. I have heard song from this album before (the cover art is almost a meme), but never all the way through. This is what you get a sound system for. This is at the upper echelons of 4 due to how amazing the Spotify radio was after: - Boa - Mr. Scruff - Jon Kennedy - Quantic The Herbalist - Massive Attack - David Holmes - Squarepusher - Four set - Kings of Convenience - Funki Porcini - Cujo - Amon Tobin

Stone cold classic.

This is a cool album... I like it.

Building steam with a grain of salt is my favorite. Awesome sound

There’s just something about this that rubs me the wrong way

Fine as background music

Damn its a long one

Midnight In a Perfect World merece um remake

Very very good. I've tried many times in the past, never could connect. It has a certain mood, kinda night timey. Long songs. Really liked, would spend $11 on used.

Forgettable in a good way. Great background music for when you need to pay attention to other things.

interesting experimental hip-hop, never tried this kind of music so it was an interesting experience I guess...?

I go into this biased: I hate edm and techno. It's like nails on the chalkboard to me. With that being said I went into this with an open mind. Maybe since it was on this list it may change my mind. God knows my son would love that. Within 5 minutes I was wondering if i could convince a deity to send someone with a hot soldering iron to jam into my ear to end the pain. After about twenty minutes or so (Felt like an eternity), the song (can you really call them that though? ) what does your soul look like came on. This was the only reprieve on the entire album. This is the one track that if I was stuck on an elevator listening too I wouldn't end it all. After that one track it was back to pondering whether a rusty screwdriver to the ear would end the pain. I listened to it all, I will never willing do it again, even though most of these albums I listen to twice in case is something that might grow on me.

I really like this album.

Na nummer 3 begon het me al ferm tegen te steken. Af en toe een klein beetje humor deed het wat verzachten

Disc que passa per ser una de les fites de l'electrònica dels 90 i que va encumbrar al seu autor, que ja no va tornar a fer res que ni tan sols s'apropés. Es tracta d'un poti poti de samples extrets d'un munt de discos desconeguts, aquí acoblats amb molta traça. Més enllà de la técnica, no li trobo ànima

For the title this gets a 1

It's the money

Amazing album

Quickly gets boring

Sounds just as great as it did in the 90s.

didnt finish it but it slayed

Based on the description in the book, I was prepared to hate this album, but I don't. This is a compilation of tracks that are totally based on sampling. Thankfully hardly any rap is to be found here. There are quite interesting tracks here, but others don't evoke any reaction or are even quite annoying. The result is a very mixed album - in every regard. 2.5/5

Its interesting from a music history standpoint of course, but I just finished it and couldn't tell you a thing about it

Love this album. Having just listened to Violator by Depeche Mode and thinking about how far synth pop came from 1980-1990, it's very interesting to think about the fact that this album was made only 6 years after Violator. It feels like all the rules changed in the intervening years. The mixture of hip-hop with electronic music creates the real power of this album. The drums bang hard on most of the tracks. The rest of the musical score feels like flavor added to the rhythm section. It's a much different approach to electronic music than was prominent before this time, but it really works and it had a massive impact on the future of electronic music and hip-hop 5/5

OMG I FREAKING LOVE THIS ALBUM <3

Known about this since '96 and only heard in full for the first time. Not what I was expecting at all. Incredibly immersive. A portal to another world.

After reading about this album, I think there might be something being "lost in translation"...it seems like this was new concept of using mostly sampling in music. While that is definitely a cool idea, when it just boils down to the listening of this album, for me it leaves a lot to be desired and just was boring

It was fine. I didn't realize when it was over so it wasn't exciting enough to keep my attention.

I really respect what they were doing here with creating music by arranging existing music into this album. It was a lot of noise to me personally, but I did think it was artistic.

All over the place. Same interesting songs.

6/10 for studying just beats

Phenomenal album

Absolutely brilliant album. For me, the album of the decade. So innovative, so painstaking in its approach. So many imitators (Avalanches etc.)

Pretty dope tracks.

I can't say enough good things about it. Not a single piece of original music on it yet it's completely unique. Possibly the best hip-hop album ever despite not featuring any rapping

super cool and different

This is an album that's hard to judge and I'll tell you why. When I did my Music Technology Degree, the first essay we were asked to do was answer the question 'What is Music?'. Naturally, everybody's essay was very different and based on their own personal viewpoint - WHAT QUALIFIES AS MUSIC TO THEM? And this is where albums like this might particularly cause disagreement or even confusion, because there is no set criteria on which to judge it. It's interesting to point this out because there's no songs here; it's an album of beats, samples, spoken word, musical phrases, licks. As there's no songs, I didn't have any emotive response like a 'pop' song as there's not really any modulation or harmony development; melodies are repeated refrains. But it's clear that creating a "song" was not the intention of the producer anyway. The rhythm and feel is pretty much everything (although the sounds on offer are pretty cool as well). Ultimate question though: was it fun to listen to? Yes and no.

An all time classic, spent many a hour in my day listening to this.

Classic sample-heavy stuff, full of nostalgia for me

Five stars all day everyday and it's not even my favourite DJ Shadow album. I listened twice just to prove a point to you all. I'm not sure what that point was, may be that I'm a dick, but that's for you to decide.

I appreciate the skill and talent in the sampling - discovering old parts and making something new - somewhat genius. That said, while the album was good and interesting, glad I listened to it, and I'm sure it'll come up in pub conversations, but doubt it's something I'll revisit. 3.5

I can understand why this is here, but it doesn't do much for me. I would actually be willing to give it another chance down the road.

Reminded me slightly of Shaft, more background music for me than anything else

LOVED it

Really cool jazz-hiphop-electronic mash up

This album was so pivotal for me. It was instrumental in moving away from indie in the mid 90s to trip hop and turntablism in the late 90s. I don’t think any other record will ever have that much of an influence on my musical tastes and cause such a seismic shift in on of the major passions in my life. Listen back now, it is kind of boring at times but I can’t really go anything other than 5 stars.

👎

Very good album. I'd heard parts of it before, but never sat down with the whole thing. Very neat that it's the first album only made of samples. Some of the songs go on a bit too long for my tastes, which is what is keeping this from being a 5/5. But It's still great. 4/5

Chill triphop with lots of depth. The fact that this is only comprised of samples is insanely impressive.

It still astonishes me how he’s able to turn sampling into an art form. He’s not the first to do so- Paul’s Boutique had already come out- or possibly even the best, as J Dilla was soon to burst out. But this is fun, beautiful and surprisingly heavy all at once. Essential. A-

The GOAT. 5

Not bad

It was an ok album. Heavy drum and bass beats comprise most of the album with some experimental stuff going on as well. It showed that a good beat is better accompanied by a good lyricist. 4.0/10

I digged (dug?) Entroducing..., it's got an atmospheric swagger about it, a big sound without getting in your face, maybe drags a little at 1hr+ but it's an engrossing listen even if you're not paying attention. Solid 3 pushed higher by Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt.

Listened to this for the first time yesterday, and didn't get it. Saw all the love it was getting on here, so listened to it again this morning, and... still don't get it. It's clearly cleverly put together, but the resulting sound isn't one that particularly appeals to me. 2/5.

05/18/22

4.5

Game changer! Still holds up well too, doesn't sound dated.

Excelente! No lo había escuchado jamás

Quite enjoyed the first listen but it got better and better with every time I heard it again ! I really enjoyed it so 4*

Probably a little harsh but I wasn't in to it today.

Best Song: Mutual Slump. One of the more bombastic tracks, it provides a nice contrast to the more chilled-out tracks that surround it. Worst Song: What Does Your Soul Look Like - Pt. 4. Just wasn't a fan of the croaky vocal sample. Overall: Pretty perfect background music for working or writing. Nice mix of hip-hoppy beats and more ethereal soundtracks. Will definitely return to this.

Didn't like.

that was pretty decent 4/5

This sounds like electronic-punk-rock-jazz-rap made for cop show theme songs... 4 stars

good work music

DJing is a legitimate form of songwriting. Unpopular opinion, I know. Music like this just doesn't grab me. I like it. I appreciate the art. There's just nothing here to keep me coming back. Maybe I need to be able to sing along.

It ended with a twin peaks reference

FIVE STARS An all-time classic and a personal favorite of mine. This is the seminal album of the "Jimmy Page of the sampler". Put your earbuds on and play this wonder as you're walking or driving through a big city at night. Urban heaven. Sublime and enticing. A feeling of eternity. It's *this* good. As is usually the case with those five-stars albums, I won't write a full-blown review about this particular record, because others have already written wonderful stuff about it and there's not much I can add that I feel could be relevant and interesting. It's just a gem. Go and listen to it a.s.a.p. Number of albums left to review or just listen to:  more than 900, I've temporarily lost count here Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens:  approximately a half so far (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: a quarter Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important): the last quarter

Chillhop before it was cool

DJ Shadow never raps a single line but is one of the most consequential hip hop producers ever. He builds long contemplative beats featuring unusual instrumentation with virtually everything being sampled. This album, typically regarded as his best might best be described as trip hop though I hear some industrial sounds that would later be incorporated into hip hop. DJ Shadow is a master of layering and composition. He strips other music for parts and when he’s finished, the whole is certainly greater than the sum.

I've enjoyed some collabs the artist has done, but I wasn't a big fan of this one. It's just a bit repetitive and lacking in ideas

Not really my genre, but I didn't mind it. Very pleasant background music, but never engaged me beyond that. Enjoyable!

Love sample based music. Great vibes.

My son saw DJ Shadow at the Music Hall and gave me an intro. DJS's ability to weave together all these samples is remarkable. I guess a personal collection of 60,000 records is the enabler that makes this possible. I like how eclectic this album is and the continual shifting of gears makes each song a new adventure and keeps the excitement level up.

So, I guess this album was picked for being a technical breakthrough, the first album made entirely from samples (and a drum machine), according to Guinness, though I’m sure there were many albums that were 90%+ created from samples. His reliance on samples leaves the drum machine as the only instrument available to do solos, which is a bit annoying at times. On first listen, I thought there wasn’t much that differentiated DJ Shadow from a lot of the other trip-hop DJs at that time, but I liked it better the second time around. I like the moods and textures, especially on pieces that start with melancholic keyboard intros like “Producing Steam…” and “Midnight…” 7/10

Seminal sampling album, its hard to tell what influenced DJ Shadow and what he influenced because this is such a mish mash. I enjoyed Building Steam the most. This album would probably be even more impactful if I listened to it cranked up with headphones, there's some thunderous bass here.

Not too much here. Good study music but not something you really want to pay too much attention to.

This just really really good. Never listened before but yum.

4.3 - great listen that brings me back to undergrad. A hip hop classic.

Absolute classic.

Pica

Loved it, not my usual cup of tea, amazing how this as been made.

‘All my life,’ remarks one among the hundreds, maybe thousands of samples on 'Endtroducing…..'- samples as numberless as the stars in the sky- ‘I felt content to stargaze… Now I only want to melt.’ I feel like I’ve experienced both on this amazing LP. If I’m not mistaken, this is a bit of conceptual downtempo, trance electronica composed around the general theme of extraterrestrials broadcasting from the future, ‘using you brain’s electrical system as a receiver… in order to alter the events you are seeing.’ The aliens continue, ‘Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation.’ This is a direct quote from the final track, that completes the story line parceled out over the length of the LP. I’m purposefully avoiding the use of the term ‘lyric’ because these are not really songs in any conventional sense. Rather, they (several at a time) are deconstructed from their original recordings and then reassembled, repurposed really, into something new, something quite beautiful actually- ‘Midnight in a Perfect World’ being one perfect example. 'Endtroducing…..' delivers deep, rich and steady funky bass lines around which synthesized sounds swirl, samples rise and fall, and seriously syncopated drums dazzle. Undergirding the whole thing is that nostalgic crackle and pop of old school vinyl being caressed by a diamond needle as it spins away on the turntable. Never was techno more seductive, not to mention creative. DJ Shadow offers an unexpected 7/4 prog rock time signature on ‘Changeling/Transmission 1,’ and ‘Stem/Long Stem/Transmission 2’ features enough tempo and melodic changes to keep the listener entranced. Perhaps enchanted might be more appropriate, finding myself, often, on the borderline of falling into a meditative state. To be honest, I embarked on this listening mission with a negative bias, informed that DJ Shadow had composed this mostly instrumental work almost entirely of samples, and exclusively on one machine. I’ve listened to other similar works and quickly grew weary of the redundancy and lack of creativity. Not so on 'Endtroducing…..' Not so at all. I was hoping at the End it was only just Beginning.

Cool album! Lots of heavy HEAVY beats, while still simple. I liked the classical/piano bits mixed in as well. 8/10

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.

A very pleasant mix of sounds creates nothing revolutionary by today's standards. The album starts out very strong, with what I belive to be it's two strongest tracks in the first 4, but fails to follow up on them in any way. Overall a decent, but forgetable experience, a fun experiment with sounds with no explosions or steam. Highlights: Changeling, Building Steam With a Grain of Salt

Took me by complete surprise. There's something really pleasurable about this music. Ambient-ish in nature, combined with very interesting sampling it created a specific vibe which I really enjoyed. Overall a worthwhile experience. I feel this album definitely inspired many later artists. I may have found a new album friend :) Highlight: What Does Your Soul Look Like (Pt. 1 / Blue Sky Revisit)

Nie słuchałem na początku, przez serię słąbych albumów w oczekiwaniu na porządny rockowy album challenge przestał mieć dla mnie sens, gdy zobaczyłem DJ - hip-hopu po prostu nie lubię. Ale dałem jeszcze jedną szansę i okazuje się, że gość jest muzycznie bardzo osłuchany i do swoich tracków wrzucił wiele instrumentów symfonicznych, całości słucha się bardzo przyjemnie i brak wokali nie przeszkadza aż tak. Nic nadzwyczajnego, na pewno stabilny album dobry na początek dla osób, którym hip-hop jest obcy i chciałyby od czegoś zacząć.

Dobre chillowe sample, ale brakowało mi jakiejś inwencji twórczej, bo znowu wyszła składanka tracków do użycia później.

Szok. Nie znam dobrze trip hopu, ale wszystkie klasyczne albumy, jakie z tego gatunku słuchałem bardzo mi się podobały. A tutaj mamy właściwie gościa, który wymyślił nazwę i w dużej mierze wymyślił brzmienie! I to brzmi dobrze, a nie sztampowo. Atmosfera jest niesamowita. Tempo jest tak zróżnicowane, że właściwie się w żadnym momencie nie znudziłem. Nie ma tragicznych utworów ani zapychaczy. Parę jest po prostu fenomenalnych - Building Steam With A Grain of Salt czy Stem / Long Stem (Medley). Ale gość osiągnął tu idealny balans między posiadaniem charakterystycznego brzmienia i posiadaniem unikalnych piosenek, niezlewających się tak jedna w drugą. Z tego co widzę album był przyjęty bardzo dobrze i zupełnie ma swoje miejsce tutaj, biorąc pod uwagę opinie publiczności i krytyków. No i stworzył podwaliny dla instrumentalnego hip hopu. Ja sam uczciwie daję 5. I to mocne 5.

Building steam; cool groove, interesting sounds, percussion gets a bit too disjointed. The Number Song; upbeat I hear snippets of familiar sounds can't place ... Public Enemy? Changeling; not as interesting as the previous 2 songs but I do like the burbling bass. What Does Your Soul Look Like; I like this one, slow soulful bass line, nice sax, weird baritone vocal burblings, little piano touches, subtle percussion. Love it. Stem/Long Stem; very dramatic sounding, love the intro with the guitar line punctuated with huge tom strikes and subtle bells. Has a creepy feel. Then gets chaotic when full "band" kicks in. Love that oboe-like sound. This song is full of twists snd turns. Compelling stuff. Mutual Slump; more jarring with the basic tom beat, punctuated with loud cymbal work. Midnight in a Perfect World; Not a favourite is that Beth Gibbons? Certainly has a Portishead vibe. Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain; Nice funky bass line but ultimately did not engage me. What Does Your Soul Look Like?; Love the cool sax and the relaxed pace. I was previously I was unable to get into this album. Forced myself to concentrate this time and subtle details were revealed to me. Sorry for the track by track analysis but it helped me to stay in the moment. A really good album that defies categorization. Is it hiphop? I guess so. Whatever it is it has layers and layers of simple things that add up to a complex and ultimately satisfying whole. 4.5 🌟

Nope

Greatest damn thing ever

Rad. An old classic

Drum fills with some diffferent record samples playing.

Cracking album. Holds up well today.

A very experimental hip-hop album and not as weird and lame as welcome to the afterfuture. Still not the most amazing music ever though

Elevates the skill of sampling to the highest art form, Shadow brings a chill out hip hop vibe from classic vinyl and has the heads bopping in the room. It’s such a well crafted album - the entirety sounds like movements from a symphony, so brilliantly is it assembled. Above all else it pushes the boundaries of what sampling is and can do and shows the world this ain’t just stealing from the work of other artists (all artists steal all the time - that’s how you make something new) but is homage, tribute - that Shadow’s instruments are turntables and samplers and hooks and riffs makes him no less a musician. A five star classic.

Interesting…

3/5

Not as great as I remembered.

Very relaxing.

Better than I was expecting, but I was expecting little. I just don't like sound of a needle scratch. Interesting to hear the ways songs are constructed but didn't float my boat.

Instrumental dance hip hop is not my genre, but this is pretty impressive.

I get why this album is highly regarded. I just find the pace too slow and end up bored every time I listen to it.

Brilliant album, Stem/Long Stem is genius and the rest is varied enough to keep you interested and high quality throughout

Still as groundbreaking and fresh as the day it was released. A modern masterpiece.

One of the all time greats

Not enough variation in the tracks to draw your attention

i liked this very much so that I liked it a lot

5 stars.

Bland

Have always known of its existence, but never properly sat down and listened. It's truly a marvel.

Album was a bit disjointed in my opinion. Did it want to ve a dance album or a hip hop slbum .I wasnt sure.

Already listened to it

In 1996 I was not hip enough, or whatever, to be on the same page as this. What a cracking assemblage of sonic wisdom. Mucho enjoyo.

Very chilled but maybe too much to excite my feelings

Well I'm an idiot. Every time I've heard this previously I've been a bit "don't know what the fuss is about". This time, I got it. It's brilliant & I was plain wrong.

Definitely not what I expected, although I honestly didn't really know what I was expecting. I'm generally not a fan of hiphop, but then again, without the Wikipedia article I wouldn't have thought of this as instrumental hiphop. In any case this was highly enjoyable background music, even though it's difficult to pinpoint, what exactly I enjoyed about it so much.

really cool 4.5

Trance-like, hypnotic, relaxing, laid back. An album that I had heard before but upon recent, multiple listens, it definitely grew on me and I realize its significance. It's like listening to the Chill station on Sirius XM, which actually may not exist without this. Classified as instrumental hip-hop. Stoner hip-hop could also fit. Built over a two-year period almost entirely out of samples from funk classics and bad horror soundtracks.

Strong! Catchy beats, nothing too intrusive but it was good to listen to at work.

-THE INTRO was kinda creepy -I have never EVER heard something so vibey yet unnerving in my life. I am very intruiged. -The number song made me feel like i was tripping and made me kinda anxious??? It feels like i'm being executed -It's giving Wandavision: everything seems alright but there are weird 'flaws' here and there and stuff that is not supposed to be there. Creepy is the right word. -As I'm listening the album and theme is growing on me -The short songs are easily the worst songs on the album. The album works better when the songs are 6+ minutes. Midnight in a Perfect World is the one exception on this. -The album sounds timeless and inventive for it's time. -When there is silence, the silence is LOUD. I feel like talking would get me killed -The ending of the album is quite iconic

Sick drums, funky beat, hypnotic mix

3, pretty good

4,5!

Giggled at Organ Donor. Clever title. Liked the video game sounds too.

Cuando se tienen un gusto exquisito por la música y se hace un disco entero a base de samples, el resultado es este. Elegante y refinado en todos los cortes, este álbum debe ser escuchado de principio a fin y saboreado con calma para disfrutar de una maestría inusual en un disco de debut. Aunque parece fuera de lugar destacar una canción por encima de otra en este trabajo, mis favoritas son “The Number Song” y “Midnight In A Perfect World”. Estoy seguro de que “Endtroducing…..” ha servido de inspiración a gente como The Avalanches. Una auténtica obra de artesanía.

Druga pjesma na albumu mi je TOPCINA. Ovo ostalo mi nije tolika topcina al kuzim.

Baš sam ga ponovno u cijelosti preslušao prošli tjedan. Znam da puno o tome vodim brigu i dosadan sam možda, ali ovaj album dođe do savršenstva kad ga se sluša u kasne noćne sate. Sve su pogodili. Instrumentali, nokturalni osjećaj, mješavina trip/experimental/instrumental hip hopa + plunderphonicsa. Odlični prijelazi u dijelove albuma preko transmisija - imaš filing kao da je nekakva radio stanica. Ako baš moram najdraže izabrat to bi bile: Building Steam With a Grain of Salt, Stem/Long Stem i Midnight in a Perfect World. Preporuka svima jer ovo je obavezno štivo ovakvog žanra. Čak i za one kojima ne paše toliko hip hop (Anita), vjerujem da je bar instrumental prihvatljiviji.

Dobro pa sam ga neki dan slušao jer sam tražio radio albume hahahahah

It's aight

4,5!!

Interesting background album, but nothing really stood out to me. It seemed really long.

I'm a sucker for dark, creeping, atonal beats and this has them in abundance. Loved it thoroughly.

I kinda dig it. The fact that it's the first completely sampled album gives it a little bump

Pleasantly surprised, and I could definitely listen to this again.

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.

It's an interesting idea that this album is made entirely from samples and I appreciate the production expertise is requires to do that, but in the end I just don't care.

He really nailed the pacing and atmosphere of this. The book review is corrwct in saying it instantly sounds familiar. Love it.

2/5 not quite...

Pozytywne zaskoczenie, bo mocno zareprezentowana instrumentalna czesc murzynskiej muzyki, tym wprowadzeniem pana DJa Shadowa, ktory choc czarny za bardzo nie jest, to jednak wie jak w samplowanie, bo ponad godzinny krazek jest kopalnia klasycznych murzynskich sampli jazzowo funkowych, jak i zarowno wprowadza sporo rokowych elementow, chocby nirwane czy metalike, ale gdybym mial wybrac swoj ulubiony sampel plyty, zdecydowanie kierowalbym sie w strone traka organ donor, ktory sampluje tears od Giorgio Morodera z 72, chociaz w instrumentalnym rapie sample to spora czesc muzyki, to jednak umiejtnosc ich wykorzystania i zabawa nimi jest najwazniejsza, a jako ze jest to debiutancki krazek, to ma w sobie on sporo tej swiezosci, naginane tutaj sa reguly tworzenia instrumentali lat 90, bledujac instrumentalne soundtracki do zycia z luznymi kawalkami pelnymi skreczy i funkowych sampli, wzbogacone o noirowy klimat i przyprawione skitami, ktore skladnie lacza kolejne kawalki, pierwszy raz slucham dzisiaj endtroducing i raczej bym nie dal jej ponad 25 lat, bo brzmi tak wspolczesnie, moze to rowniez przez to, ze tak sie juz osluchalem z ostatnimi materialami od pana Shadowa, wiec z our pathetic age czy the mountain will fall z ktorego traczek z RTJ chyba najwiekszej popularnosci mu narobil w mainstreamie, wiec pozytywne zaskoczenie, ze instrumentalny hip hop rowniez ma swoja reprezentacje na liscie i to jeszcze z hameryki, bo jeden moby juz wystarczy na 1000 albumow, na plejke instrumentalna traczek organowy, building steam with grain of salt i magnum opus plyty czyli midnight in a perfect world