A basement in Davis, California, full of vinyl, and an entire emotional world assembled out of other people's records. Endtroducing is the record every crate-digger since has been measured against. Whether or not it was truly the first all-sample album has been argued to death and matters far less than the fact that it carries actual grief.
- Number 22 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century
1996
