DJ Shadow – Endtroducing.....

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Label:	Mo Wax – MW059
Format:	2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country:	UK & Europe
Released:	Sep 16, 1996
Genre:	Electronic, Hip Hop
Style:	Instrumental, Downtempo, Cut-up/DJ, Trip Hop

Tracklist

A1	Best Foot Forward	0:49
A2	Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt	6:40
A3	The Number Song	4:40
B1.a	Changeling	7:51
B1.b	**Transmission 1
B2	Stem/Long Stem	9:21
C1.a	**Transmission 2	4:02
C1.b	Mutual Slump
C2	Organ Donor	1:57
C3	Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96	0:43
C4	Midnight In A Perfect World	4:57
D1	Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain	9:23
D2.a	What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)	5:08
D2.b	**Transmission 3

Companies, etc.

Pressed By – Orlake Records
Recorded At – The Glue Factory
Published By – MCA Music Ltd.
Published By – Mo Wax Music Ltd.
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mo Wax Recordings
Copyright © – Mo Wax Recordings
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – A&M Records Ltd.
Copyright © – A&M Records Ltd.
Licensed From – BMG Records
Published By – Daisy Loo Music Inc.
Published By – Ensign Music Corp.
Licensed From – Polygram Records
Published By – Creeping Death Music
Licensed From – Virgin Records Ltd.
Published By – EMI Virgin Music Publishing
Licensed From – Island Records
Published By – Blue Mountain Music
Licensed From – One Little Indian
Published By – Warner Chappell Music Publishing
Published By – Famous Music, Inc.
Published By – BMG Music Publishing
Licensed From – Sony Records
Published By – MJQ Music, Inc.

Credits

A&R [Mowax International] – James Lavelle
Engineer [Assistant] – The Automator*
Photography By – B Plus*
Photography By [Gatefold Montage] – Barney Bankhead
Producer, Mixed By, Engineer – DJ Shadow
Sleeve [Sleeve Design], Design [Sleeve Design] – Ben Drury
Sleeve [Sleeve Design], Design [Sleeve Design], Photography By [Gatefold Montage] – Will Bankhead
Written-By – DJ Shadow, J. Davis*

Notes

Standard gatefold sleeve holding one disc in each panel and opening on the outside. Another version also exists DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... with the opening inside the gatefold and both discs stored in the right panel.

Recorded at The Glue Factory, San Francisco.

"What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" which is on the CD version of this album, is omitted from this release.
Some of the track times listed do not match the actual length of the tracks. These include B2, which is actually 7:48, not 9:21, C1.a / C1.b which is 5:29, not 4:02 and D2.a / D2.b, which is 7:28, not 5:08.

BPM (not provided on the record):
A1: - | A2: 82 | A3: 102/107
B1.a: 87 | B1.b: - | B2: 106
C1a: - | C1b: 98 | C2: 106 | C3: 79 | C4: 80
D1: 73/146 | D2a: 78 | D2b: -

All tracks:

Published by MCA Music Ltd./Mowax Music Ltd.
(P) 1996 Mowax recordings/A&M Records Ltd. London.
(C) 1996 Mowax recordings/A&M Records Ltd. London.

Except:
A2 (P) 1996 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd. London. Sample of "I Feel A New Shadow" used courtesy of BMG Records. Published by MCA Music Ltd./Mowax Music Ltd./Daisy Loo Music Inc./Ensign Music Corporation. (both c/o BMG Music Publishing).
A3 (P) 1996 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd. London. Sample of "Orion" used courtesy of Polygram Records. Published by MCA Music Ltd./Mowax Music Ltd./Creeping Death Music. c/o Polygram Music Publishing.
B1 (P) 1996 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd. London. Contains sample of "Invisible Limits" by Tangerine Dream. Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd. Published by MCA Music Ltd./Mowax Music Ltd./EMI Virgin Music Publishing.
B2 (P) 1996 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd. London. Sample of "Love Suite" used courtesy of Island Records.
Published by MCA Music Ltd./Mowax Music Ltd./Blue Mountain Music c/o Polygram Music Publishing.
C1 (P) 1996 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd. London. Sample of "Possibly Maybe" used courtesy of One Little Indian.
Published by MCA Music Ltd./Mowax Music Ltd./BMG Music Publishing/Warner Chappell Music/Famous Music Inc.
C4 (P) 1996 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd. London. Contains sample of "The Madness Subsides" by Pekka Pohjola. Licensed courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd. Published by MCA Music Ltd./Mowax Music Ltd./EMI Virgin Music Publishing.
D2 (P) 1996 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd. London. Sample of "The Voice Of The Saxophone" used courtesy of Sony Records.
Published by MCA Music Ltd./Mowax Music Ltd./MJQ Music Inc.

Made in England.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text): 7 31454 06071 4
Barcode (String): 731454060714
Matrix / Runout (Side A Etchings): MW 059 A
Matrix / Runout (Side B Etchings): MW 059 B1
Matrix / Runout (Side C Etchings): MW 059 C
Matrix / Runout (Side D Etchings): MW 059 D
Rights Society: BIEM / MCPS

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Endtroducing..... (CD, Album, Card Sleeve)	Mo Wax	MW059CD	UK	1996
Recently Edited	Endtroducing..... (CD, Album)	Mo Wax, FFRR	697-124 123-2	US	1996
Recently Edited	Endtroducing..... (2×LP, Album)	Mo Wax, FFRR	697-124 123-1	US	1996
Recently Edited	Endtroducing..... (CD, Album)	Marlboro Music, Marlboro Music, Mo Wax	74321563942, 0088332MRO	Europe	1996
Recently Edited	Endtroducing..... (CD, Album, Promo)	Mo Wax	MW059P	UK	1996

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Reviews

Alain_Patrick Aug 15, 2007
Edited 16 years ago
According to one of my best friend's wise words, "Endtroducing" was a quintessential release of 1996 - not only for the hi-level brekbeats it brought, but for the incredible melting pot of samples brilliantly used and their ensemble result - thanks to the author's very unique research that included Northern Soul, Rare Grooves & Old School Funk tunes from the sixties and seventies.

The quality of the breakbeats present on this masterpiece suggests an abyssal disparity between the musical backgrounds of the contemporary and the old school artists ("Endtroducing" suggests something like the 'introduction of something from the past', already ended - like something brought from the old times, though through a nowadays bold perspective.

It can be easily figured out on the comparison between the old breakbeats formed by instrumental kicks, snares and hi-hats, created by those Funk bands with the more recent drum machine sequences used since the eighties with the purpose of simulating the original ones. It's not difficult to realize the higher complexity and the artistic level of the older ones.

"Endtroducing" is a sort of a testament of these ancient habilities those rare grooves & Soul-Funk bands had whose fragments were re-constructed magnificently by the multi-talented DJ Shadow.

While the contemporary tecnologies seems to offer an unimaginable amount of possibilities, we realize more than ever the importance of the very essential aspect of our environment: the musical culture.