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| 1996's Endtroducing... by DJ Shadow. For those looking to label this record as hip-hop, dance, jazz, jungle, ambient, funk, or rap, get ready to be frustrated. Trip-hop combines psychedelica, jazz, funk, soul, experimental, chill-out, and hip-hop music, to create what is enerally a down-tempo, moody mish-mash of genres, that, when made well, creates an often majestic effect, which is definitely the case with this album, which consists entirely of samples, put together by DJ Shadow. He breaks the boundaries between genres without question or hesitation; it's all music, and it's all good. Although some people criticize this method of making the album, this is misguided. Taking samples of other songs, and putting them together into whole new compositions, is a feat that few others, if any, could do as well as DJ Shadow does on this album, making this an essential album for the 1990s. |
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