End troducing .....
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| Studio album by DJ Shadow | ||||
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| Label (s) | Mo 'wax | |||
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13, 27 (2005 Deluxe Edition) |
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63:27 min |
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The Glue Factory, San Francisco |
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Endtroducing ..... is the debut album by music producer DJ Shadow . It was released in 1996 on the British label Mo 'Wax and made history as the first album whose music consisted entirely of samples .
About the album
End troducing was produced exclusively with the Akai MPC 60 sampler and sequencer . In 2001 it got an entry in the Guinness Book of Records . Shadow sampled records from a wide variety of genres such as soul , jazz , rock and rap ( vocals ), allegedly more than 500 different ones, and created new songs from them that correspond to trip-hop , downbeat and instrumental hip-hop , to the development of which the album was instrumental contributed, can be assigned.
Three singles were released from the album, but were almost exclusively in England in the charts. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" was released in March 1995 and was ranked 59th in the UK Top 75 . After the album was released, “Midnight in a Perfect World” and “Stem” were released, reaching number 54 and 74 respectively. "Stem" or "Stem / Long Stem" is used again and again in television reports , commercials and films , around 187 - a deadly number .
On the cover of Endtroducing ..... rapper Lyrics Born and Chief Xcel, producer of hip-hop duo Blackalicious , can be seen in a record store. The scene is from the video for the single "Midnight in a Perfect World". On this one can be heard , not sampled, Gift of Gab by Blackalicious. Lyrics Born is also featured on the untitled Skit . Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and DJ Shadow were all signed to the English label Mo 'Wax at the time and therefore worked together on several albums.
In 2005 the album was re-released in a deluxe edition with the addition "Excessive Ephemera ". The new version contains a second CD with remixes , single versions, demo recordings and a live set from 1997 in England .
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary, DJ Shadow announced the release of an Endtrospective Edition in 2016 , which in addition to endtroducing ..... also contains excessive ephemera and numerous new remix versions of the album tracks.
Track list
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reception
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Endtroducing was already celebrated by the critics when it was released and viewed as an important part of a post-conservative electronica generation that was redesigning pop music and our listening habits .
The time certified the album to have taken the first step into a completely new musical era, which has hardly anything to do with today's:
“'End troducing. . . ' With its abstractly grooving eclecticism , a door into the future is pushed open with force, a future in which pop music even renounces its quotation character and experiences a recombination of its own history on a molecular level. New alphabets will be formed, new languages, new semantic conventions that, from today's perspective, will turn any pop song into an acoustic ' Finnegan's wake '. 'End troducing. . . ' may then seem cheesy, awkward, clumsy, but it will be considered the first attempt at stepping into this new world, in which music in the traditional, artisanal sense no longer counts. "
For the release of the Deluxe Edition of the album, the e-zine PopMatters analyzed the importance of end-troducing ..... in the ever more influential genre of electronic music as a "field report from the frontlines of a brave new world" and gave it ten out of ten possible Points.
"The concept of the album was hardly unique, except in the respect that it was so damn good - a methodical and studied celebration of ideas which had been around for a while but had yet to be fully exploited. Davis came along at just the right time in history to make an impact, a time when an album like Endtroducing… could stand out because it exemplified the best of so many progressive trends in popular music. In terms of it's immediate importance it probably can't equal Nevermind or The Chronic , but in terms of its influence, its stature and its quality, Endtroducing… could lay a serious claim to being the most important album of the 1990's . (...) As easy as it is to respect Endtroducing ... for all its technical virtuosity and intellectual rigor, it's even easier to love it for it's warmth and passion, and the unring, overwhelming humanity that informs what could have been a staid and formalistic exercise . It stands as an unparalleled achievement, the likes of which we may never see again. "
The All Music Guide saw the success of Endtroducing ..... in the creation of new, innovative songs from well-known ones and gave it the highest score with five points.
“Using hip-hop, not only its rhythms but its cut-and-paste techniques, as a foundation, Shadow created a deep, endlessly intriguing world on Endtroducing… , one where there are no musical genres, only shifting sonic textures and styles. (...) it's innovative, but it builds on a solid historical foundation, giving it a rich, multi-faceted sound. It's not only a major breakthrough for hip-hop and electronica, but for pop music. "
Almost ten years after its release, Business Wire named the album "one of the most revolutionary albums ever issued".
“'Endtroducing…,' hip-hop visionary DJ Shadow's landmark 1996 album, changed how a generation thought about music, and its influence is still felt today in hip-hop, trip-hop, dance , electronica and rock 'n' roll . "
RapReviews.com emphasized the influence that Endtroducing ..... on the far more popular and more successful album OK Computer by Radiohead and "a thousand imitators, and a countless many" would have had, and thinks that Miles Davis ' music as hip-hop -Artist in 1996 how Endtroducing ..... would have sounded. The site gives the album the highest number of points for both music and production.
“'Endtroducing…' manages to create a mood onto which you can project anything - this is, perhaps, the primary triumph. Whether it is the background music at a party, music to help you study to, music to deliberately scare your girl to (so that she will need you for comfort), pretty much anything ... Your first listen may prove relatively unremarkable, but after that it will be on repeat as your first port of call for many a situation. If anything, this album deserved to have been the ' Tubular Bells ' or ' The Dark Side of the Moon ' for the 1990's generation. Perhaps it never quite reached such iconic for one reason - it is hip hop, and was in direct contrast to the hip hop that found global fame in 1996. "
The album has also been featured in a number of leaderboards since its release, including the 100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005 , selected by the music magazine Spin . There it reached number 69. In a 2002 list of the 50 Greatest Dance Albums Ever compiled by the British magazine Muzik , Endtroducing ..... took first place. In 2006 it was added to the list of All-TIME 100 albums by the news magazine Time . The album is one of the 1001 albums You Must Hear Before You Die .
Since then, DJ Shadow's subsequent works have always had to be compared with the debut and, despite the similarly high quality, usually performed worse. PopMatters says, "the only real problem with end-troducing ... is that it set the bar so high for shadow and his peers in the instrumental hip-hop world that most everything else to date comes as an afterthought. (...) you can only invent the wheel once. "
The album was not very successful commercially, only in England (number 17) and the Netherlands (number 75) it reached a chart position.
literature
- Eliot Wilder: 33⅓ - Endtroducing… . Continuum, New York 2005, ISBN 0-8264-1682-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b review on rapreviews.com
- ↑ DJ Shadow News, 2000 ( Memento from November 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Intro : Review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by The Private Press , May 29, 2002
- ↑ a b Endtroducing ..... in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists , page 176, cf. books.google.de
- ↑ a b Review of Endtroducing ..... on All Music Guide
- ↑ Endtroducing (20th Anniversary Endtrospective Edition) ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on djshadow.com (10/22/2016)
- ↑ Rating Allmusic
- ↑ Review Rolling Stone
- ↑ Rating Pitchfork Media
- ↑ Review The Guardian
- ↑ Rating Sputnik Music
- ↑ Review Slunt Magazine
- ↑ Rating Pop Matters
- ↑ Review RapReviews.com
- ^ Rating Laut.de
- ↑ conservative in the Wiktionary
- ↑ z. B. Review of Endtroducing ..... In: Rolling Stone , January 23, 1997
- ↑ Review of Endtroducing ..... In: Die Zeit , February 1997
- ↑ a b c Review on PopMatters, June 10, 2005
- ↑ Business Wire : "Two-CD Deluxe Edition of DJ Shadow's Groundbreaking ..." , April 26, 2005
- ↑ Spin : "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005"
- ↑ Time : "The All-TIME 100 Albums" , November 13, 2006
- ↑ Endtroducing ..... in the Dutch charts
