The first full track on the album, “Building Steam with a Grain of Salt,” begins with a scratchy piano loop from Jeremy Storch’s “I Feel a New Shadow,” mixed with the voice of jazz percussionist George Marsh as he explains how and why he makes music. What drew me into the music were the percussion tracks, or backbeats, and the way they propped up Shadow’s eclectic mish-mash of samples. Endtroducing was the first album created entirely out of samples from other albums, but I didn’t know that at the time because I didn’t recognize any of the samples. When it was first released in 1996, I was listening to very little hip hop and even less DJ music, and I hadn’t really begun to appreciate electronic music, so this album (and my enthusiasm for it) came as a complete surprise. DJ Shadow’s groundbreaking debut album Endtroducing sits very near to the top of my list of the greatest albums of all time.
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