Endtroducing.....

DJ Shadow

1996 · Instrumental hip-hop

Mo Wax · MW059

Why it's here

Built entirely from other people's records; a thesis on crate-digging as authorship

Endtroducing..... was built entirely from other people's records, and it turned crate-digging into a form of authorship that instrumental hip-hop has never stopped exploring. As a piece of pure construction it belongs in the top ten, and everyone who has ever assembled a record from samples works in its shadow. It sits at twenty-two because this is a rave canon and Endtroducing visits it rather than living in it. A purist would cut it entirely; keeping it and taxing it is the honest call.

Also ranked

Dancefloor: № 159
Influence: № 20
External poll: № 21

Tracklist

A1Best Foot Forward0:49
A2Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt6:40
A3The Number Song4:40
B1.aChangeling7:51
B1.b**Transmission 1
B2Stem/Long Stem9:21
C1.a**Transmission 2
C1.bMutual Slump4:02
C2Organ Donor1:57
C3Why Hip Hop Sucks In '960:43
C4Midnight In A Perfect World4:57
D1Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain9:23
D2.aWhat Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)5:08
D2.b**Transmission 3