Endtroducing.....
Endtroducing ..... is the name of the debut album of the music producer DJ Shadow. It was released in 1996 on the UK label Mo ' Wax and made history as the first album, whose music consisted entirely of samples.
About the Album
Endtroducing was produced exclusively with the sampler and sequencer Akai MPC 60. 2001 got it for an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. Shadow sampelte plates from different genres such as soul, jazz, rock and rap ( vocals ), reportedly more than 500 different, and it created new songs, trip hop and downbeat instrumental hip-hop to their development, the album made a significant contribution can be assigned.
Three singles were released from the album, but were represented almost exclusively in England in the charts. Appeared early in March 1995, "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4 )", and was also placed at number 59 of the UK Top 75. Reached after the release of the album appeared " Midnight in a Perfect World" and " Stem ", the number 54 or 74. " Stem " or " Stem / Long Stem " always finds in television documentaries, commercials and films, about 187 - A deadly number, use.
On the cover of Endtroducing ..... is the rapper Lyrics Born and Chief Xcel, producer of the hip-hop duo Blackalicious, seen in a record store. The scene is from the video of the single " Midnight in a Perfect World". This is not sampled to hear Gift of Gab of Blackalicious. In addition, Lyrics Born is represented on the untitled skit. Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and DJ Shadow at the time were all the English label Mo ' Wax under contract and therefore worked together on several albums.
In 2005, the album in a deluxe edition was re-released as the addition of " Excessive Ephemera ". The new version includes a second CD with remixes, single versions, demo recordings and a live set from 1997 in England.
Title list
- Transmission 1 - 00:35
- Transmission 2 - 1:29
- Transmission 3 - 1:11
Reception
Endtroducing was already celebrated for its release by critics and regarded as an important part of a post- conservative Electronica generation, pop music listening habits and our newly designed.
The time certified the album to have taken the first step in a new musical era that had barely anything to do with today:
" Endtroducing. . . ' With his abstract grooving eclecticism comes with force a door to the future, a future that even renounced their quote character in pop music and undergoes recombination of their own history at the molecular level. New alphabets are formed, new languages, new semantic conventions that make an acoustic, Finnegan's Wake ' any pop song from today's perspective. , Endtroducing. . . ' May be cheesy, awkward, clumsy act, but it is seen as a first attempt to walk in this new world, is considered nothing more to music in the traditional, artisanal sense. "
For release of the deluxe edition of the album, the e-zine PopMatters analyzed the importance of Endtroducing ..... in the increasingly influential genre of electronic music as a "field report from the front lines of a brave new world " and gave him ten out of ten possible points.
"The concept of the album which hardly unique, except in the respect did 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 not 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 unerring, overwhelming humanity did INFORMS what could have been a staid and formalistic exercise. It stands as of unparalleled achievement, the likes End of month we may never see again. "
The All Music Guide saw the success of Endtroducing ..... in the creation of new, innovative songs from well-known and gives him five points the highest score.
"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. "
Nearly ten years after its release, the album by Business Wire as "one of the most revolutionary albums ever issued" was called.
" Endtroducing ..., " hip -hop visionary DJ Shadow's landmark 1996 album, changed how a generation thought about music, and its influence is quietly felt today in hip -hop, trip-hop, dance, electronica and rock 'n ' roll. "
RapReviews.com emphasizes 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 artists had in 1996 as Endtroducing ..... sounded. The page will award the album for the music and the production respectively Höch's score.
" Endtroducing ... ' Manages to create a mood ontological 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 did she want to need you for comfort ), pretty much anything ... Your first list june prove Relatively unremarkable, but after did 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 iconic seeking for one reason - it is hip hop, and what is in direct contrast to the hip hop did found global fame in 1996 ".
Also in a number leaderboards there was the album again since its release, including the 100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005, elected by the music magazine Spin. There it reached number 69 In a 2002 compiled by the British magazine Muzik list of the 50 Greatest Dance Album Ever occupied Endtroducing ..... the first place. In 2006 it was added 100 Albums by Time magazine to the list of All- TIME. The album is one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
DJ Shadow's subsequent works had since then have always compared to the debut, and cut it in spite of a similarly high quality usually worse. PopMatters said, "the only real problem with Endtroducing ... is it did set the bar so high for Shadow and his peers in the instrumental hip -hop world did most everything else to date comes as at afterthought. (...) You can only invent the wheel once. "
Commercially, the album had little success, only in England (No. 17) and the Netherlands ( number 75 ) it reached a chart position.