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DJ Shadow's Entrouducing Still is Revolutionary

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negreenfield

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Back in college, a buddy of mine said he saw him live. Probaby 15 years ago then. Was pretty wild to me because I didn't listen to that type of music. I really enjoyed it though and while I didn't get into much other stuff I went on to buy a few more of his albums later.
 
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joelseph

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negreenfield said:
Back in college, a buddy of mine said he saw him live. Probaby 15 years ago then. Was pretty wild to me because I didn't listen to that type of music. I really enjoyed it though and while I didn't get into much other stuff I went on to buy a few more of his albums.
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Damn! Your buddy is famous!

Decent album for it's time. His live show in 2011 was completely whack.
 
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negreenfield

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joelseph said:
Damn! Your buddy is famous!

Decent album for it's time. His live show in 2011 was completely whack.
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All I remember him saying was that he came out with a hoody on, and you couldn't really even see the guy that he was kind of hidden behind the turntables and was incredibly unassuming. Can't remember any more details but he seemed pretty blown away by the show.
 
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Pickles the Firecat

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I think I'm one of the few people that prefers The Private Press to Endtroducing...

Prefers might be too strong. I love both of them. The Private Press just barely inches it out for me.

Psyence Fiction came short of those two, but was still good. I still revisit bits of it from time to time. Wish he would've stayed on.
 
NinjaBoiX

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I like you OP, it's in my top 5, no doubt.

This is on my bedroom wall:

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KDC720

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Building Steam with a Grain of Salt was played at one point in Splinter Cell Conviction.

It was the first time I heard the song and I loved it, found out it was by DJ Shadow, so I listened to Entroducing.

Loved it, fantastic album.
 
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hateradio

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It's a good album.

Blader said:
I really like it, though I don't think I've ever even listened to any of his other work.
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That's probably because he released the album in 1996, but didn't really have a follow up until years later.
 
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Heel

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His music will always be carried by an amazing ear for music and a passion for record digging. A great example is the track "This Time" From The Outsider. Just love this thing, both the original sample and his version. The story behind it makes it even better.

Fans of DJ Shadow will likely remember this great single he put out in 2006 (also on his Outsider CD) called "This TIme" which features a male vocalist knocking out a soulful tune about self-realization.

There's a larger backstory to that song, beginning with a friend of mine in S.F., Justin Torres, who has been a serious record digger in his time and he found a series of enigmatic studio tapes from the vaults of Music City, an old Bay Area studio that had liquidated much of its holdings. On one of those tapes was an untitled song, attributed only to "Joe" and as you can hear above, it's a near-acapella, except for the light acoustic guitar accompaniment that went with the song.

I'm not quite clear on the process through which that original song made its way over to Shadow (though Justin and Josh are friends so that helps, I'm sure) but the good Mr. Davis took that studio tape and added a full musical arrangement.
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Joe - Untitled
DJ Shadow - This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)
 
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see5harp

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This shit be old but it's still one of my favorite albums of all time. I even remember going to the record store that's on the cover in middle school. Unfortunately Records on K St. has now relocated and it's not the same at all. And I listened to DJ Shadow first in high school. Stuff like DJ Shadow, Invisible Scratch Pickles, Blackalicious, Latyrx, Hieroglyphics, and Living Legends wasn't common but well known among hip hop heads. in the early 90's people at my school were actually rocking Hiero t shirts and I remember going to Living Legends shows.
 
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Johnlenham

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I feel like I should just buy it on vinyl because of Building steam with a grain of salt. No idea where I heard it years ago but whenever I see it mentioned I have to youtube it.
 
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Manmademan

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I love "midnight in a perfect world" but "why hip hop sucks in 96" is still the best track for me.

it's 2013 and STILL true.
 
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see5harp

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While I do think it's awesome there are always new fans, I think it's crazy to say something was "revolutionary" when you weren't even around to know why something was important and how it affected the industry. It was a great album but something like Paul's Boutique was probably a lot more important in the grand scheme of things.
 
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injurai

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mooooose said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyence_Fiction
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besada said:
If you like that, try this:
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
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see5harp said:
This shit be old but it's still one of my favorite albums of all time. I even remember going to the record store that's on the cover in middle school. Unfortunately Records on K St. has now relocated and it's not the same at all. And I listened to DJ Shadow first in high school. Stuff like DJ Shadow, Invisible Scratch Pickles, Blackalicious, Latyrx, Hieroglyphics, and Living Legends wasn't common but well known among hip hop heads. in the early 90's people at my school were actually rocking Hiero t shirts and I remember going to Living Legends shows.
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XANDER CAGE said:
Love turntablism stuff. Give Kid Koala a listen if you haven't before.
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I'm loving the names being dropped in here. Others that can be checked out.
DJ Krush
RJD2
Blockhead
Prefused 73 (in my top 5 for sure)
J Dilla
Souls of Mischief
 
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see5harp

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Back in those days you actually had indie hip hop record labels and collectives. In northern california you had Solesides/later Quannum (DJ shadow, Latyrx, Blackalicious), Hiero (Del, Souls of Mischief, Casual, Pep Love), Living Legends (Grouch, Mystik Journeymen, Eligh, etc.) along with outliers like The Coup. As much as I might sound like I'm hating, DJ Shadow was incredibly important to the instrumental hip-hop scene. It was the most important early on, and guys like DJ Vadim, Madlib, DJ Krush, a whole buncha dudes on Zen, Blockhead, RJD2, and even a lot of the early Diplo stuff was basically all possible because of DJ Shadow's response from critics and tastemakers. Then DJ Shadow started saying how much he liked producers like Mannie Fresh and the same hardcore hip hop audience that made him a household name made that kind of music uncool. Guys like Diplo and RJD2 abadoned the boom bap sound and the undergroup hip hop labels that used to be common are gone.
 
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Shambles

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Downloaded the entire album after just chancing upon a single track back in about 2005 or so. I pretty much listened to that album straight for 2 months. Sooo good, especially when walking around in the dark downtown.
 
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Thanks for posting all this great stuff guys. Just wanted to stop in to say that my girl has an extremely rare live performance saved in mp3 format. It's about an hour long, sounds fantastic and I'm willing to share if it's cool with the mods. I'm pretty sure you can't buy this anywhere so I don't *think* it's a real problem to share it. Anyway, I'll check back tomorrow. If it's okay to do so, I'll upload to Dropbox. :)
 
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DrFaustPhD

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Threads like this remind me of the good parts about having a bunch of older siblings growing up. I don't think I was even in my teens yet when my oldest brother showed me DJ Shadow, Entroducing and Private Press still get frequent play from me these days.
 
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SmokyDave

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Pickles the Firecat said:
I think I'm one of the few people that prefers The Private Press to Endtroducing...

Prefers might be too strong. I love both of them. The Private Press just barely inches it out for me.

Psyence Fiction came short of those two, but was still good. I still revisit bits of it from time to time. Wish he would've stayed on.
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I'm with ya, I prefer Private Press. Mind you, I prefer Psyence Fiction to both of 'em. Since all 3 have a permanent place in my collection though, it's almost splitting hairs.

PhoenixPause said:
The amount of samples is staggering. Amazing, near perfect album.
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You might want to check out 'Prodigy Presents: The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1' if you haven't already. Easily my favourite album of all time.
 
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PixelPeZ

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caesar said:
Midnight in a Perfect World is one of my favourite tracks of all time.
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One of mine too. Once saved me from a lightning strike!

But I only learned this year (from a GAF thread) that the song is heavily based on this Finnish musicians track, that also works in it's own way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EGiMLnJdnA

And for me, the only true follow-up to Entroducing is Psyence Fiction. Those two albums, and Lamb's Fear of Fours were essentially my teens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HwC9gE7LbM
 
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