Endtroducing.....

Massively regarded, but why??

I have impression that whole album is just 2 songs playing one after one...

I think his sampling and collabs are affecting the score positively, which tbh, I'm fine with I guess (Nas, Run The Jewels, De La Soul . I turned the spaceship on autopilot and took a ride on the vibes.

Not terrible at all. Not really my thing, but there were some nice moments and I didn’t feel the need to skip anything on my drive to work. Listened twice. I’m unlikely to come back to this regularly, but I’m glad I listened to it and as an indicator it certainly belongs on the list

Fuckin love this album, lots of memories here. It's a vibe, tho. Little dark, little uncomfortable; mesmerizing soundscapes.

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.

One, two, my test. One, two, my test. Is this mike on? Oh, we’re recording? Oh, OK then… this is Why Hip-Hop Sucks In ‘96 It’s the money. The album gets better if you know he built it from samples and wa made in his basement. Pretty impressive (2.9*s)

The level of content-creation from this format is impressive but minus the effort, it's not really an amazing listen. That said, I do understand why it's on the 1001 list. Shadow creates some nice soundscapes but overall it's a little low-key for me, it's like the jazz form of hip-hop in a way. I prefer to be sonically boomed by cut-sample mixes (like Girl Talk for one) and this album felt more like background music. It faded away by the end so 2.0.

DJ shadow was/is a pioneer in cut work no doubt and I do enjoy a good sample track. This was a smooth, chill "instrumentals" album that does well as background. It was a little too slow and I do prefer some other cut chemists in the game more (i.e. RJD2, Coldcut, Lemon Jelly, The Avalanches...) but DJ Shadow has earned his place. "Organ Doner" got heavy play from a buddy of mine in college during many a Sunday smoke sesh. I give props to artists that can produce a full album built purely from samples even it doesn't seem original...it takes skill. Most of the time, these DJs do better when they collab with MC talent and I think this is the case for DJS but a solid 2.52 stars for endtroducing me to the project.

Reading up on Entroducing I was intrigued but what I was about to listen to. Using samples to create essentially an entire album seemed like a a great concept. Unfortunately, I like the idea of this album a lot more than the execution. It's mostly just a mish mash of random sounds with no staying power. There are a couple of decent segments but nothing that will have any lasting effect beyond this listen. I think the lack of any true vocals hurt this album as there is not much to listen and relate to for an hour. Endtroducing was a pretty big miss for me. 1.46 stars

Where’s the 0 star ? Seriously the worst thing I’ve ever listened too

Terribly dull album. Whole lot of nothing going on with it.

Ok background music at first but it got weird.

I had no idea what I was listening to after a while and definitely did a check to make sure it was still this album.... haha

Perfect album

There was a period of time when this album was on a short list of my favorite albums, because it was so different from everything else. It is still a good and an important album, and I appreciate it very much for what it is.

Not horrible, but not my cup of tea.

fav hip-hop album

Listened on my CD version - bought the day it was released in the UK! Stills sounds great - esp organ donor.

unique-sounding good laid-back vibes, for 1996 it seems pretty special

Great album! Just what I needed that day.

Good mix. Will need to come back to this one to try appreciate it some more

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.

I've never heard album like this before (only samples and nothig more). But it was really good. I won't be going back for more but still I think it is entertaining and creative.

Hmmm... jest mi smutno, że nie mogę dać więcej, bo bardzo chciałem. MEGA dobry początek, ale kurde, ok. 75% płyty nie tylko nie wywołuje u mnie efektu wow, ale trochę mnie nuży... Słuchałem całości 3 razy ze sporymi przerwami pomiędzy i ciągle ten sam wniosek. Dlaczego CHCIAŁEM? Bo imo to perełka na tej liście, coś świeżego i innego, no i sample potrafią być zajebiste i dosłownie robić niejeden kawałek. Do tego jak wspomniałem przywitał mnie BARDZO dobry początek. Idk, może doceniłbym bardziej resztę w pakiecie z tekstami (?). Jest OK jako całość, ale spory niedosyt.

"Endtroducing....." to jak muzyczny Frankenstein – DJ Shadow wziął kawałki zapomnianych płyt winylowych, posklejał je z chirurgiczną precyzją i stworzył coś, co zamiast straszyć, zachwyca. To album, który z sampli zrobił sztukę, a Shadowa koronował na króla gramofonowej alchemii. 5

More interesting than I expected, sounds pretty complicated to make, but it's about twice as long as I really wanted it to be. Worth listening to, nice background vibes.

One of my favorite albums in high school. Still holds up.

Unevenly brilliant; some tracks are meandering, some others instill a deeply felt atmosphere. 3.85

Not exactly my thing...love the Run the Jewels song and the Zach Del Rocha but alas non of that was on this album. Okay this is the album...I like it enough that I'd play it through the loud speakers to piss the old ladies off but would thoroughly enjoy it myself.

Not a genre I normally would listen to. It was good background music

If it’s all sampling… is it actually created by this artist? Interesting but can’t say I’d revisit.

Much better than I was thinking it was going to be. Downtempo, but I actually enjoyed the groove. There's a reason bjork loved him.

I like!!! Het is heel boos en emotioneel en diep maar ook instrumentaal

already heard, any not too long ago as well. I like quite a lot of the songs, as the boom-bap 90s hiphop style is cool, however as its purely instrumental, and quite a lot of the songs are really long, some of them drag on a bit. Overall around 8/10

Interesting

A hip-hop and electronic music classic. So many breaks and so many samples that is instantly identifiable because of the number of times I've heard this album. It's a timeless album really. It could have been released yesterday.

Fun album. Heavily sampled and a joy to listen too.

One of the best records you can listen to if you like underground music. The album that started/popularized plunderphonics (I think). A beautiful fusion of samples that give an eerie electronic and hip hop blend of music. Raucous / jazzy and hip hop style drums, weird vocal/spoken world snippets and some very unique blending of electronic samples. A true one of a kind record. Hear all the main singles (the number song, building steam from a grain of salt, midnight in a perfect world). stay for deeper cuts (stem/long stem, what does your soul look like, organ donor, mutual slump, changeling and napalm brain/scatter brain).

interesting

ok but not more

clearly succeeds in its aims, though the final result feels a bit like muzak. pleasant & forgettable.

Ok so I've thought these thoughts from the beginning but I really think this should be a 10 rating system not 5 to better understand the music but alas, here we are so I'm going to break down MY system 3- obviously fine to listen to, usually popular, nothing wrong or jarring 4- I liked it and was intrigued, excited by possibilities, want to explore the artist, would listen again 5- I'm buying the album, will listen to many times or already have Now the bummer 2- I get it from a critics point of view, probably very easy to sample from or ground breaking or they thought was fucking genius. I listened, I heard, I'm good 1- I did it. That's it. I feel it's hard to give a 1 but that fucking Leonard Cohen Album the day after elections made a 1 a possibility and now my personal standard

Forgettable

I actually recognise a few tracks. Back when I was watching old VHS skate videos. Gave me a bit of nostalgia. I enjoy

I love this type of music. Best track was Building Steam with a Grain of Salt. Not much to say

A bit too ambient/ background for me. Felt a bit boring the whole way through

great

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

Stunning album

This is an album that shows the artist has potential, but the album itself is basically a bunch of ideas loosely strung together.

Cleverly crafted but surpassed by many of the artists and albums it helped spawn.

I was waiting for this record to show up; I knew it had to. This album has carried me through several years and is a staple in my hip hop collection. This master class in sampling is something to be in awe of, and always will be. This record is timeless and portrays such a fluid movement through music. His knowledge of music and the vinyl collection he has amassed is on full display when listening to this album. His wizardry to blend and collaborate samples that wouldn't otherwise have been thought of. This is a mainstay in my collection and easily a Top 25 record of all time for me.

Det var faktisk overraskende godt. Det her er mere min form for hip hop. low tech, og ren beat uden forstyrrende rappere ind over det hele. Fik det hørt 2 gange over weekenden.

Det var fandme træls at høre på.

I some ways, I don’t get it. When do people listen to this? Do you just in the middle of the day say “gotta listen to some DJ shadow!” ???? With that being said, it really grew on me. I had to listen to it again because I felt like I had missed something. it’s not something you can put on a mixed tape and make it work. I need to be able to find a way to work it into my listening mix though because the music is kind of mesmerizing. What I thought was a 2 or 3 rating to begin with has become a 4 or 5. Way better than I expected.

Just bleh

I enjoyed this album a little more than expected. It was great as background music in quite a busy day. Excellent chill level and some awesome sounds!

New to me and I loved it (mostly - Some of the tracks were a bit repetitive) This was a really fun album and didn't demand anything of you as the listener - sometimes you want something that pushes the boundaries, but sometimes you want something like this that you can just groove along with. Great for music to listen to while working - I'd listen to it again.

An album completely made out of samples is truly a remarkable achievement on a technical level, and it doesn't sound like a jumbled mess. However, this is an album I appreciate and admire rather than actually enjoy. Key tracks: Building Steam With a Grain of Salt Stem - Long Stem Midnight in a Perfect World

the tracks didn't immediately pop out to me on a first listen, but it was interesting music to have on in the background

Haunting and thoughtful.

Endconsistent..... Some parts of this were really good. I was grooving a little. Other parts dragged on the same repetitive sample way past the point of boring and into annoying territory. Overall I appreciated it but I think it could've benefited from an editor.

the mixmaster, assembled from his massive collection of vinyl, pulversing with endless snippets - beats, piano, instructional LPs, old funk singles. definitely an album to be admired for its craft. if it sounds dated, that is partly because so many people lifted ideas from it, so this form of making an album was very popular for a while

From the time perspective it was something else in 1996. Today sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't. Although "Organ Donor" is a timeless type of beat itself.

Another one that I expected to write off, but which will now get five stars from me. I liked it a lot.

Might actually be the first proper DJ-ing record I listen to. Banging grooves.

listening while doing some work and WOW this is really fun, its deffo somthing ill listen to again, its similar to things in my library already but its a really intreguing little album, super fun. so chill so fun so groovy so good

one of those albums that’s so good that i don’t even need to say anything about it

Not bad but not really memorable

It's the production approach and beat making skills of what's usually consigned to be back-up support in music, taken to the extreme point where the otherwise dominant element of hip hop, rapping, becomes extraneous. This one's been in my regular work-listening rotation for years. Does a good job keeping out other noise, interesting and varied enough to not become annoying, but relaxed and chill enough to not demand attention or take focus.

20-25 minutes is enough.

I like the ideas presented but it doesn’t keep me as engaged as I would have liked.

Way too dancy/electronic for me

While I confess that this kind of music is not my normal listening fare, I really appreciate when someone can rip and mix samples and beats and make something creative and new. Unfortunately, for me, this album was not that. I felt like each track let only a handful of short samples dominate in an endless loop that eventually fades into noise more than makes music. There were not enough layers, transitions, weaving together samples to create something melodic that hooks in this collection for my tastes. Instead, it was just a nice collection of sounds that overstayed their welcome.

3.8 really funky I liked it

Yawn.

Interesting

The production on this is sooo good. Top notch delivery, he did such a good job. It feels new and original almost thirty years later. While I do enjoy the songs, I can’t enjoy them for too long, though, because it gets to be four minutes of the same loop. This instrumental style is really good for background music for me, but as something to listen to at the front of my brain, giving it full attention, it gets a little boring. I understand that’s a me issue rather than the album. I’m just not the biggest phan of instrumentals. As instrumentals go, however, this shit slaps and it is certainly quality. 4/5

this was actually better than it should be but i wouldn’t seek it out and could i write poetry to this? n

Much like J Dilla, DJ Shadow uses beats that are just a hair off kilter. The results are either engaging or annoying. I kept going back and forth on this one and just couldn't figure how to rate it. So it gets a three.

At its most interesting moments this sounds like DVD menu music.

This was a fun listen, and I did enjoy most of it.

嘻哈知名专辑……所以这是什么，采样是什么……好像有几段还可以？

I don't know enough about the history and world of the DJ to properly appreciate this. I'm giving it a 2 because I probably wouldn't listen again, but I'm sure it deserves better.

Sarò pazzo ma mi è piaciuto un sacco

ma che bello.

recognized the first track, what a classic - pretty chill slow album w/ some nice 90s hiphop beats, cool adlibs, big fan

not the kind of music i usually enjoy, but i found myself enjoying it. the sound of it is very unique

Boring. Enough said.

Really enjoyed those tracks, going to listen to this again.

yeah, I can listen to this no prob

Sure, the beats are cool but hip hop without rap has a ceiling on it.

3.2 You have to respect the imagination and technical aspects of making this album but for me, it doesn't rise above being really good background music

Sisisi bello

Guess my A/S/L in 1996 ;)

Favorite Track: What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4

Also know this one already and love it.

What a corker! I had to relisten to this to make sure it is as good as I remember... and it is! I was surprised to find it came out in the mid-nineties. I thought it was older than that for some reason. Did DJ Shadow ever do anything as good as this? I tried to keep an ear out but nothing hit me to the same degree. Anyway... Five stars!

I’d take this to the desert island it’s so good…. Completely biased 5 stars for this gem….. my generations Tubular Bells, though unfortunately I doubt it sold as many…

So much quality and depth, every listen reveals. Cool name, cool album cover, top 10 album you hope not everyone knows

I was really looking forward to this, but honestly this is a bit of a letdown. Whilst I can tell this was cutting edge for the time, and the mix of samples together on a lot of songs was genuinely great, it was just really missing that oomph that I would be expecting from an instrumental hip hop album. Comparing this to Donuts by J Dilla or the Rappers Best Friend series, does this stack up to those - which are my favourite instrumental albums? I don't think it's even close. Definitely cool record and a worthy listen if you're trying to study or work and want something interesting to focus to, but as a greatest/must listen album of all time this doesn't hold it's weight.

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

Lowfi chill hiphop beats to be disappointed/disinterested to (10 hours).

A little backloaded but otherwise phenomenal album 9/10 Fav tracks - building a stream with a grain of salt, Changeling, Stem/Long Stem, Mutual Slump, Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain, What does you soul look like pt. 1 Least Fav - none

Truly something I would not have listened to if not for this list. Looked at the length at first and rolled my eyes at another album that goes for over an hour. I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed this. Multiple listens, no skips here at all. As someone who is not familiar with the genre at all, I don't know how monumental this album is in its production and style. From the little reading I did, it seems this album's was very influential in music. For me, this album feels like the precursor to the endless waves of lo-fi slop study music on youtube (not a bad thing at all!). Not many albums have piqued my interest this much to go and explore more of the genre, so for that and how much I enjoyed it I can't give it anything lower than a 5. Highlights: Changeling, Stem/Long Stem, Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain

This was enjoyable background music, especially for a drive. Appreciated that the mixes were more music than vocal.

The drums were alright which was what seemed to be used a lot thus it determined what rating it received

Really solid. Wasn’t sure what to think before I started but I quite liked this. Very mellow, low key. Loved the variety to the samples and the way later songs incorporate stuff from earlier songs. Nice vibes would put on again.

this was an interesting album. it fell into background music but I enjoyed hearing the piano, violin, and slower tempos sampled. would I seek it out to listen to again, doubt it though.

Putting this album contextually in its place in history. It is a true masterpiece. It's not a perfect album for me because I have a little bit of trouble with instrumentals and personal relation. I have no criticisms of the type of material or the way it's deployed. I simply wasn't as moved by it as lyrical or narrative musical pieces. Not to say some of that isn't there or that it isn't evocative. Just not what I am into.

Really sick album

The kinda music that just seeps into the background, I find it hard to hate on but I’m not a fan, it’s a bit of a victim of the cd era by being incredibly long and most of it was just samples and noise. Then the interludes feel useless too on this. 2/5

surprisingly great all the way through

Not for me

Fast Car is such an incredibly perfect song. The rest of the album is quite good too, though it’s not something I can see putting on often.

Better than expected

Ok

Didn’t even bother to listen. This is still a 5. Ground-breaking!

5/10 chill beats... 10-21-2024

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While this is something I typically wouldn't listen to, I found it to be quite enjoyable and interesting as it is a unique concept.

Very cool stuff. Makes me want to find more instrumental hip hop.

I played this album twice. And then discovered that I'd actually listened to a thing called "Endtroducing Re-Emagined" It's very dull and not at all engaging. Then I found the 'real' "Endtroducing...." and it's a whole lot better. Not brilliant, but rather pleasant to listen to!

This was much more enjoyable and interesting than I thought it was going to be.

One of them’s got eyes as big as jolly ranchers. 3.5 rounded up.

I guess this is one of the premier trip-hop and sampling records? Pretty good if you like that stuff. A bit sleepy.

Was ok. Didn’t finish jt

Gotta appreciate an album that ends with Lynch.

a glorious album

Gimmicky rubbish

Interesting. Highly sampled. I almost liked so many songs but it leaned towards heavy repetition and some harsh sounds.

Reminiscent of lots of 90s electronica/DJs. Might not be for everyone, but it hits my sentimental button even if I never listened to it before.

Het was vast erg leuk om te maken, maar niet per se om te luisteren.

Album d'instrumentale hip-hop (samples). Intéressant, après je préfére clairement quand ya un rappeur sur les prods. Les samples étaient cool, car plutôt uniques. Je garde cet album en tête pour poser !

Some Fitnessgram pacer test type shit. Was nice to work to. I may return to it for that reason. I probably won’t relisten otherwise.

As another commenter said, this definitely is something I'm glad I listened to before I die. Not my cup of tea, but definitely good background music.

Vibes were good, but it felt a little empty. Did not listen to the full thing because it was a little noisy for my taste. Love the album cover though!

A pleasant trip down hip hop memory lane

An immaculate vibe.

Better than I thought it would. I understand why it’s on the list. Don’t want to listen to more though.

Megfáradva estem neki az ötödik óra elektronikus zene után, de ez nem is volt rossz! Izgalmas, váratlan és végre valamelyest érzelmes zene. Kategóriájában az eddigi legjobb, amit hallgattam. Szóval kösz, algoritmus, hogy nem csak az uncsi diumdisumot nyomod bele az arcomba.

ez már jobb egy kicsit, de still no

not bad, but not really up my street

Not bad

Can't believe I never really listened to this. It was ubiquitous in the 90ies and I listened to a lot of music that sounded like this and was inspired but this but somehow never got around to the origin story. With 2024 ears it sounds quite dated. I like the film soundtrack samples with a hiphopbeat aspect but the scratching and the endlessly repeated film dialogue samples feel, well, very nineties. It's also quite serious. I got more into this kind of thing when it turned into fun party music (Fatboy Slim, Wiseguys etc). Might be related to the fact that I've never smoked dope in my life...

Was randomly handed this album by a former neighbor (who turned out to be a complete asshole over the years) -- it was one of my first exposures to this sort of sampletopia. Always enjoyed this one. Heard it so many times that there aren't really unexpected bangers, but: Stem/Long Stem, Organ Donor, What Does Your Soul Look Like

If someone told me this was actually really groundbreaking and clever then I’m sure they’d be right but man it was boring to listen to

Not my jam

This was good. Interesting and experimental. Heavy mixing of familiar tracks to create new songs. Nice background music. 3/5

Trash

I liked this more than I thought I would based on the description, but probably won’t ever listen again (sorry, Joe!)

Liked some of this, especially the last 3 tracks. Not my jam.

Some interesting things on this album, but kind of a weird thing to listen to. More of a demo type album. 2.5/5 Probably won’t listen again

DJ Shadow is a lame name so my expectations were v low but enjoyed this more than I thought. Mostly the beginning of the album then I felt it got weaker

I really like DJ Shadow and I used to listen to the Private Press a lot when I was younger. I don't like this album as much but it is really cool. His albums are always very varied but I like that you can hear what he's doing with them really well, the samples and beats all flow really well.

Meh.

Awful to my ear

Above average interest-wise electronic music for someone who doesn’t ordinarily listen to this type of music. Acoustic instruments or very realistic ones are mixed in with the typical electronic sounds.

Alright

- Super foundational sounding. seems to lay the groundwork for a lot of what slum village, dilla, flylo, nujabes, the avalanches, and other beatmakers were doing in the 2000s. - Do i hear some european DnB / industrial influence? Is this dude Bri'ish? - Breakbeats and sampling are 100% reminiscent of the 90s but timeless when considering the decades of mimicry and inspired tracks that follow. - I bet this was pretty avant-garde at the time

One of the greatest albums of the 90s. So good. So innovative. Incredible vision, crafted over a 2 year period.

Pretty good however boring in some parts. Would definitely listen again. Hot girl mental health walking music

just some hip hop production

It's just music!

Not bad beats

Vibey, mostly instrumentals

Meh

I liked it a lot more than my previous listen of this. The songs are really varied and the samples must be quite obscure since I didn't recognise many of them. Really liked the bass in lots of parts. Did fall off at the end though.

5/10 this is a good album, but it's not a good listen this is the kind of album that I would use as ambient music in a very 'alt' bar, with a lot of right angles and shiny metal, and it's the kind of album ppl will use as samples for other S tier albums but at the same time it's not something you would LISTEN listen to, y'know?

Oh goodie, another super long electronic album. -_- Hey, at least this guy actually put in real effort to make this, combing through and cutting snippets of vinyl instead of just making digital loops in GarageBand. Though I’m not sure how he makes any money off of it with all the royalties he probably has to pay. There’s an interesting mix of influences on here. Obviously, he owes everything to old school hip hop. But there’s also plenty of soul, jazz, classical, rock, metal, and even shoegaze influence on these tracks. And it’s fascinating how someone who doesn’t truly make his own music can influence future artists. I can hear a direct line from this to Linkin Park on several tracks (Mike Shinoda has confirmed him as an influence), especially on the beginning of “The Number Song” and “Stem.” Parts of it also remind me of the Gorillaz and that “Frontier Psychiatrist” song by the Avalanches that was everywhere in 2000. I didn’t hate this as much as I wanted to. I actually kind of really liked it, as much as it annoys me to admit that. It’s very atmospheric and immersive while at the same time being able to function as background music when you’re busy with other things. There’s also something oddly nostalgic about it, even though I’ve never listened to it before. It brings back memories of playing Tony Hawk Pro-Skater on Playstation and hearing song like “Kick, Push.” It’s very evocative of the late 90s. I can see myself listening to this again. Shit, am I going to give a 5 to an electronic album? What’s happening to me? Favorite tracks: “Building Steam with a Grain of Salt” “Stem/Long Stem” “Organ Donor” “Midnight in a Perfect World” 5/5

Gut um nebenbei laufenzulassen, aber nichts um gezielt zu hören. Stem / Long Stem und Transmission 2 sind ganz nett

Stem / Long Stem - Medley, Organ Donor

Not for me

An absolute classic, and incredibly layered -- a musical journey.

I really didn't expect to like an instrumental album made by sampling as much as I did. There's a lot of layering going on. The end result is an interesting atmosphere. I'm not sure I would revisit this though.

This was fine. Liked it, didn't love it. 3.3

I should have taken the weekend to write a treatise on why this record is so important to me, but then I just listened to it over and over again and forgot to write anything. This album redefines what an album can be when the music is consider more as movements in a symphony. Obviously your mileage may vary so I would recommend a few test drives before making your decision.

Wow amazing album. Chilled. Definitely a 5/5!

I might listen to this again, some nice ideas, but I found it boring.

Legendary album. You must hear this one.

This album is entirely made up of "samples" from the work of musical artists layered and arranged as new music, which is an artistic and technical accomplishment in itself, but is it worth a listen and would I ever want to hear it again? Yes to the first and a firm no to the second. There are interesting segments and some melodic spots, but a lot is also mind-numbingly repetitive. For me, a hard no.

Perfect example of a mix when you're out, has a lot of opportunities to remix but also perfect to chill on you headphones

This album feels like something out of a dream. The amount of creativity in each and every song feels exciting and every aspect feels deliberate and planned. The heart that DJ Shadow pours out of it like a waterfall. Favorite tracks were The Number Song, Building Steam With A Grain of Salt, and Midnight In A Perfect World

They say the best music can transport you. This album smells like carpet and wood veneer. This, along with Donuts by J Dilla, Modal Soul by Nujabes, and Deadringer by RJD2 helped me through my freshman year of college. Listening to this again now just sends me back to the library for better and worse. Fantastic record.

Awesome!!!!

nul

Semisti latisti fiiliksiä kun luki miten levy toteutettu. Oli ihan hauska matka läpi erillaisten biisien ja kolme kertaa pyöräytin läpi. Oma suosikko Stem/Long Stem

Pieni pettymys. Organ Donor on klassikko, mut vähemmälle kuuntelulle jäänyt DJ ja odotukset oli korkeemmalla

Disco esencial. Tuvo enorme éxito de crítica, estatus que mantiene hoy en día, además muy merecidamente. Es una influencia para decenas de artistas y géneros: el debut de The Avalanches no hubiera sido posible sin este obvio precursor, Portishead resuenan en cada surco... más allá de ser reconocido en el Libro Guinness de los Récords como el primer álbum completamente sampleado (algo no del todo cierto). La portada define el disco, aunque hay mucho más de lo que aparenta... La intro con Best Foot Forward no hace presagiar lo que vendrá después. Building Steam With a Grain of Salt (con un exquisito sample de Jeremy Storch – I Feel A New Shadow), ya pone las cosas en su sitio y The Number Song eleva el nivel aun más (mete trozos de Metallica – Orion además de fragentos de A Tribe Called Quest, Pink Floyd, Grandmaster Flash, T La Rock, entre otros). Changeling cabalga sobre un bajo y percusión que te llevan a lo largo de más de 7 minutos que se te quedan cortos (aquí se nota la mano de Tangerine Dream o Shoft Shell). What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4) resuena a Bristol y soul denso. La racha sigue con sample de Giorgio Moroder – Tears en una de las gemas del álbum: Stem/Long Stem (con Nirvana, los otros, los psicodélicos – Love Suite) y, tras otro interludio mete mano al Possibly Maybe de Björk en Mutual Slamp (además de Roger Waters y otros). Vuelve en Organ Donor a samplear a Giorgio con absoluta maestría (poco más se puede hacer en apenas minuto y medio) y proclama Why Hip-Hop Sucks In '96 (It´s the money, It´s a fact) para pasar a otra de los mejores momentos del disco en Midnight In A Perfect World con sample de David Axelrod – The Human Abstract y los inconfundibles Rotary Connection- Life Could. Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain con guitarras y pedales donde mete samples a cascoporro, entre ellos Tyrannosaurus Rex – Pon A Hill. La pluscuamperfecta What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit) con base en Alan Parsons Project – Nucleus. El final no es cosa menor a pesar de su corta duración: Transmission 3 está basada en la banda sonora de John Carpenter -Prince of Darkness (El príncipe de las tinieblas) y en la serie Twin Peaks... Aquí la lista completa de samples: https://www.musicismysanctuary.com/dj-shadows-endtroducing-sample-list Junto con J Dilla y A Tribe Called Quest uno de los imprescindibles del Hip-Hop. En total, poco más de una hora que redefinió y amplió el género hacia vías insospechadas. En 1996 se publicaron otros buenos discos: The Score de The Fugees, Odelay de Beck, ambos con excelentes sampleados y resultados. También Coming up de Suede, Being there de Wilco, Murder balladas de Nick Cave, Black love de Afghan Whigs, Emperor tomato ketchup de Stereolab, Harmacy de Sebadoh, Millions now living will never die de Tortoise, If your´re feeling sinister de Belle and Sebastian, Amazing disgrace de The Posies, Take it from the man! de The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dust de Screaming Trees, 1977 de Ash... incluso New adventures in Hi-Fi de REM, el debut de Placebo, Everything must go de Manic Street Preachers, Pre-millenium tension de Tricky, Now I Got Worry de jon Spencer Blues Explosion, High/Low de Nada Surf, First Band on the Moon de The Cardigans, How I quite smoking de Lambchop, Walking Wounded de EBTG

Very interesting 90's hiphop!

Instrumental, smooth hip-hop, pretty enjoyable - got my head slow bopping

Classic and groundbreaking, what a crazy perfect sonic journey.

That's the first DJ album that I've seen in here and I really expected some (at least) decent performance. Unfortunately, it is another one of those albums where you have to be on drugs to actually enjoy it. It was definitely too much and definitely less than meh.

Honestly the worst

You know when it's a DJ that there won't be any original music. That being said, I really enjoyed his mixes and even recognized some of the samples. Anyone that samples Bjork is ok in my book. I'll say this, I enjoyed the album enough to actually look up the references. It was a bit of a nostalgic ride through the nineties. Tribe Called Quest, Nirvana and Twin Peaks...there ya go...I'm in. I will definitely listen to this album again.

This is definitely one of those albums that is on this list primarily because of its influence. I didn't particularly care for it, but Wikipedia says it was really important so I suppose that's worth at least three stars.

Overproduced, too many samples

Bizarrely apocalyptic

A classic album, but didn't age very well unfortunately. Smells of a very specific musical era.

Classic crazy for '96

Pretty interesting listen, even if I’m unlikely to ever come back to it again.

Not bad. Downtempo chillstep with samples.

Very influencial album on both me and a lot of the music I've come to like. The John Carpenter samples, the comedy routine samples and just all of stem/long stem have a real haunting mystic that first captured my attention years ago and continues to on repeat listens.

An unbelievable album that frankly stretches the boundary of its legacy as an experimental hip hop album. Don't get me wrong, many songs on here are undoubtedly hip hop beats, but for a lot of them it's hard to imagine someone rapping over them. Some songs I outright don't consider to be hip hop at all, and fit in more broadly with a sort of trip hoppy ambient electronic genre. However you describe it, this album is astonishing.

Legendary

++: Building Steam with a Grain of Salt, Changeling / Transmission 1, What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4), Untitled, Mutual Slump, Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96, Midnight in a Perfect World, What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 – Blue Sky Revisit) / Transmission 3 +: Best Foot Forward, The Number Song, Stem/Long Stem / Transmission 2, Organ Donor, Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain 7,7/10

I know people call this album groundbreaking, but honestly, I just found it boring. Most of the tracks drag on way too long, looping the same ideas until they wear out their welcome. There’s barely any energy, and it all starts to blur together after a while. For all the hype about creativity and innovation, I was left waiting for something to actually catch my ear. It feels more like background music for a hip coffee shop than something I’d ever want to play again. If this is supposed to be a masterpiece, I’m missing the point.

go girl give us absolutely nothing!

i am. sorry this was boring….. 2-2.5/5

This album is background or lift music at best. Some of the tracks are pleasant in the background and others are just annoying. I have no idea how this album made the cut. Favourite song: The number song and what does your soul look like are OK. Least favourite: A lot of the music on this album is meh and background noise. Album artwork: Cool cover

Unser chill-Act bietet eine angenehme Mischung aus Lounge-Musik, die mit Nuancen von Acid, Techno und Soul angereichert ist. Es ist ein interessantes Werk, das sich perfekt für einen entspannten Sommernachmittag am Strand eignet. Die Tracks schaffen eine entspannte Atmosphäre und laden zum Verweilen ein. Allerdings fehlt dem Album das gewisse Etwas, um wirklich spektakulär zu sein. Die Kompositionen sind solide, aber es gibt keine herausragenden Momente, die im Gedächtnis bleiben. Insgesamt ist “Endtroducing” ein gutes Album für Hintergrundmusik, aber es hebt sich nicht genug ab, um einen bleibenden Eindruck zu hinterlassen. Perfekt für entspannte Stunden

never heard of this album before now - throughly enjoyed tho

Found this to be surprisingly enjoyable

A classic. Excellent downtempo beats.

Hard to rank this one! Songs were interesting but some were just clanky noise.

Sounds like the background music in a video game. I don’t mind it but it’s not active listening material.

Move the needle? No. Major insult for a Deej Of his calibre. This album was genuinely awful. The samples seem to lack direction, and impact. The beats, banal. Entirely unremarkable. Doofi on Reddit were recently wanking about it too.

I got this one when I was in university first getting into hip hop, hearing about it from the note on Wikipedia that said it was the first to be made up exclusively of samples. Listened to it a ton, still have Mutual Slump on my mp3 player. I don't think I have much to say that I didn't in review #2 on the Beastie Boys (except that I like this one a lot and the Beastie Boys sucked). music: appreciated. (⌐■_■)

I don’t think I properly respect this sort of thing as an art form. I often like hip hop that is built on samples, and Shadow is one of the best at that. But removed from that context, a record of samples stitched together, existing entirely for its own sake, rather than working as a foundation for something else, maybe just can’t do it for me. I know what he’s doing is impressive and cool, but I don’t know that I care.

sucks

Never got into DJ albums. I'll check this out. Definitely respect what they bring. Prettty cool stuff. Two tracks in. Now I know why this is an essential item.

Top notch choice for background music. Moody and ambient without too much to say.

Utterly fascinating. What is this, like prog-hop? I'm not entirely sure, and I can't say I'd listen to any of the tracks isolated, but the actual album is just so well made and truly a feat of musicality and production. I feel like I'm not smart enough to get it, but I certainly wasn't suffering.

For my birthday I was hoping 1001 was going to pick an album that I already think is an undeniable classic, a staple in my music catalogue. Not the case here. Background music that's somehow made worse by working with it on in the background. It makes me feel like I'm in a corporate job circa Y2K. It doesn't make me feel nice. Certainly doesn't make me feel like it's my birthday :(

Far too long, far too boring. The interference on my car radio was more pleasant to listen to

Alright to play in the background.

An actual shadow could probably make a better album

I started off really liking this, there was a lot more musicality than I thought there was going to be and it felt like all the samples were elevated and used thoughtfully instead of just being a reference to that song you know. That being said it did drag a bit and lost me in the middle. Some bits I really loved but maybe it was just a little long. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would but I didn’t love it.

Better than expected

Wasn't sure at first but I really liked this album.

Meh. It's fine. Has a few great moments, but boring overall

It's a fun album, I had a good time listening to it. It's got a ton of really nice beats, really deep and rich sound too. I can respect what he's doing, but to me, beat albums can feel incomplete and can get boring kinda quickly. A couple of features would have taken this album a really long way.

Есть пару крутых треков, старое техно

Made mowing the lawn significantly more enjoyable

Meget cool og sej atmosfære på albummet og nogle helt vanvittige samples. Også helt vildt at det er fra 1996 så ekstra point for det

Incredible album really enjoyed it!

oh god this is really bad.... LMAO

Nice and cool but will only be background music 6/10

Building Steam With A Grain of Salt takes this thing up a notch

Чет вообще не понял, как этот альбом изменил хип-хоп. Сэмплов нарезал красивых, зациклил на 9 минут. Молорик

DNF'd after half the album - no fault of the artist, DJing is a genre I can't really listen to on its own.

This was pretty dull. Instrumental hip hop seems like an idea doomed to mediocrity when the most interesting thing about hip hop music is the rappinh/lyrics

Not as bad as expected

The album wasn't grating to listen to, but it was just not my cup of tea. Extremely repetitive, and to be honest I don't really understand the language that DJs are trying to speak to me in.

olha, não é ruim não. Mas se você for ao setor de músicas eletrônicas para concentrar de qualquer serviço de streaming musical, você vai ganhar algo bem parecido. Então é um som que não tem nada de mais. É bom sim, mas não merece prêmio algum.

All timer

I really enjoyed it, if maybe a bit dated. But I had to listen to it 3 times.

It deserves an extra star for being interesting, at least the way it was made. As for the music it’s kinda just forgettable

i listened before and i’m glad i relistened, the drum work on this album is immense, some amazing production on this, really nice sounding, laid back aesthetic sounding album, good to play in the background if you’re doing something, would recommend this it’s a nice listen

Twin Peaks sample on the outro track goes hard

Wild ride

One of the greatest plunderphonics/instrumental hip-hop albums ever made. Hugely influential on basically all music around the turn of the millennium. So glad to have an excuse to revisit it.

pretty cool beats

I know they probably spent countless hours on this album but it sure sounds like they just kinda made most of it up on the spot!

Not at all what I was expecting but ended up really enjoying it. Not much lyrical content and mostly sampling with very cool beats.

Conceptually brilliant and a masterpiece of technical prowess. An album that consistently challenges you and subverts expectations, while also spitting out some damn danceable beats. Some would call this gimmicky but there’s a clear attempt at elevated artistry here that shouldn’t be ignored. Listened to: at home. Favorite tracks: Building Steam with a Grain of Salt, Why Hip Hop Sucks in ‘96

Gewöhnungsbedürftig und sicher nicht für jede Gelegenheit passend aber die Kunst dahinter anerkennenswert, Samples im Hip Hop Style mit großer Handwerkskunst abgemixt. 7/10

This would be a great album to drive late at night to. I can’t see myself just casually listening to this, though. I think there is talent at cobbling together a bunch of samples and making it sound this good. 3/5

Got to have on in the background.

Building Steam is pretty badass. I enjoyed working to it. “Number”song dropped it quite a bit for me and I had to skip that track and then the rest was a bit of a mixed bag. I liked parts of Stem and liked What does your soul look like and Organ Donor as well.

This album was a bit of a staple for me. It's up there as a great album. I'm very happy I have been able to listen to this on many occassions whilst I'm alive.

Knew the three "hits" from back then respectively rediscovered "Midnight In A Perfect World" the other day - strange how I'd slept on this album for so long. Just great. Very fine example of that time's instrumental hip hop slash electronica and a stellar masterpiece in sampler music. Special mention to how it secures a tiny spot for Björk's Post in this compilation. Easy 5 stars.

Clearly technically very accomplished, but didn't give me the musical equivalent of an wedgie. Probably of those where you want to nod wisely when someone mentions it "yes, yes, of course I've listened to Endtroducing" but that you will never listen to again.

Amy could probably listen to this at work. Definitely a prelude to the lo-fi focus beats that Youtube has in droves now.

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.

A landmark, perfection.

?? What is it ??

it's hard to form an opinion on it because of the sampling making it so... erratic I guess. It does get props for being the one album so far where I've added a song. The vibes are good I need to sit down proper and analyze the whole album but as a vibe it was nice.

groundbreaking…..i think

I mean… it's alright, but perhaps due to just being used to this sort of instrumentation, the album just comes off as another drum focused electronic album in the 90s. Is that fair to this album? Probably not, but that doesn't stop me from feeling like this an album with far more importance to those who were alive during its creation. That isn't a mutually exclusive rule, but I fail to think more than "that was neat." It had some cool parts: the intro to Mutual Slump was brash, sudden, and a pleasant surprise, and I'd say from then on the album was hitting a cool groove in my head where I understood the hype a little more, but a lot of the other tracks felt too mellow for me to get anything I couldn't get from an album I'm already familiar with. An album probably influenced by this, no doubt, but that doesn't change that I'm just not feeling as impressed as I think I should be. It suffers from the curse of the 90s length album, and while the scratching was neat, anytime it wasn't there I didn't gather anything from it that wasn't already acquired via Aphex Twin on the mellow side, or the Avalanches on the plunderphonics side. I can recognize the quality, and as I said, "part three" is pretty great, but there's too much to sift through now to get any deeper enjoyment from it, in my opinion.

Sounds like a reconstructed, developed thoroughly Pharcyde album. Less silly. Amazing, Building Steam with a Grain of Sand is not only one of the best song titles ever but is exquisitely mapped out. The Number Song will also always get me. Hadn't listened to The Changeling before but the way it devolves and changes and balances is mental. Motifs echo throughout the albums - ghostly teardrops, clandestine peeking around corners. Strong 4.55.

Rap? I guess. Art Rap more like. Not good.

not for me

I like the fragments of time all throw together into a backbone of beats. The existential feel is appealing for a run on a dreary day when you’re lost in your new neighborhood.

I have revisited this album many times over the years. From a first listen in a Tower Records listening booth back in the mid 90s to my son's discovery of unique offerings over a decade later - there is just nothing quite like this album. Experimental but highly listenable. Of its time but only because it was released today it would still be of its time. Though not without precedent it is a wholly unique offering. Crate digging pushed to a spiritual level. You feel this album. Not a weak track in the bunch. All have unexpected turns even as they settle into a groove that feels like it could go on forever. It is a great concept that is expertly delivered. An album that would be difficult to produce today feels unfathomable in 1996. But that wouldn't matter if the songs didn't deliver. A true master class.

Classic DJ Shadow

Building Steam with a Grain of Salt Stem/Long Stem Midnight in a Perfect World

A lot of quality, but the problem with dance bands that have no themeing to their albums is they can overcompensate by making those albums too long

A 90's sampling bit of genius.

Zzzzz....huh? What? Oh yea this stupid sample shit. Hard no.

Up until this record, most people picked samples so the sample set the mood for the song. DJ Shadow took samples and turned them into something completely different. Cut them up, change the accent, etc. So it's an important record for the development of music. However, like a lot of other groundbreaking records (black sabbath, frank zappa, run dmc,...) , I wouldn't recommend it to young people. Because by today's standards, it's not that good. Favorite song: organ donor.

A bit dated

Var skeptisk men till min förvåning så var det ganska okej.

Maybe it's technically proficient and 'cool', but let's be completely honest: this gets boring after 15 minutes. It's not bad and it's not good. It just is.

Ja nice deze, kende hem al. Ziek influential album

I get why this is part of the list. It’s kind of unique and gender. Bending this is different than most the rest of the rap and R&B that was out at the time I like a lot of it creative. I’m not sure what it really brings longer time.

Very clear and defined hip hop rhythms here, and I'm sure a lot of them would work great as backing tracks for a strong vocal. Unfortunately, I personally think a lot of them become a bit repetitive and slightly boring without a vocal to break the monotony. 'Changeling' makes itself noticed by being _only_ 7min long, but somehow making it feel like 15. Great if you feel like time is moving a bit fast and you need to slow it down. But a great listening experience it does not make. Further down the album around 'Transmission 2' the sound starts becoming more ambient which I enjoyed a lot more. The album also feels a bit like what we'd call a "shitpost" in modern meme culture with tracks like "Why Hip-Hop Sucks In '96" serving as a one-off joke jab at the genre. Seemingly 'What Does Your Soul Look Like - Pt.' 2 & 3 has dropped off the album, which I find funny for some reason. 'Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt' seems to be self-reflection, and biographical which I found kind of cool on the 2nd listen Standouts Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt Transmission 2 Mutual Slump Transmission 3 "Guess who's coming"/5 (3/5)

Eh...

I didn't know what to expect from this album. Did not realize that it was going to be completely instrumental. It was a pleasant surprise, and quite enjoyable.

This was fairly chill to listen to although there was a bit too much scratching in parts and a few spots where the vibe was interrupted by uncomfortable musical phrases.

Good train music! Loved the mixing, and the beats were good enough to draw you in. It felt fluid yet precise, well made and I found myself enjoying the sounds around me more through this album

Sample selection. Drum-forward. Innovative combinations of sounds - a floating female choir weaves through chopped-up funk grooves atop a skeletal piano scaffold. Experimental without being overly challenging, complex without being obnoxious, heavy at the right moments and leavened with classical in places, soul in others, or maybe that's some 70's Adult Contemporary hits... just really entertaining. Cool as ƒ€©k. Flirted with a 5 on this but it's not really on the same level as Aladdin Sane or Tears for Fears. On the other hand, I gave Fatboy Slim a 5, so maybe it is. Close, anyway. Maybe I shouldn't have given Fatboy a 5, this is easily as good.

Yeah sure it was fine.

Good sampling music - perfect for working or having on in the background but some of the songs have merit on their own and deserve your full attention

I’ve always liked DJ Shadow’s single from this album: “Midnight In a Perfect World” but an album of just samples is a bit too much for me.

Just didn’t vibe with it and I like rap music

I was expecting a bit more hip hop on this album but it actually was pretty chill with mostly instrumentals. As with most instrumental tracks there are several that feature vocal samples id rather not have, but they aren't too bad. I like the random organ that pops up, and a few tracks titles and samples have a bit of humor to them, which was also a pleasant surprise. Favorite track "Organ Donor" 3.5/5

6/10. Pleasant music with some nice beats to it.

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