DJ Shadow-Endtroducing (1996)
Artist: DJ Shadow
Title: Endtroducing...
Year of Release: 1996
Country and Year of Edition: US 1996
Sell Price: $6.94
Sell Date: 12/9/24
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 9/28/23 NM/NM $2.11
Low: $2.11
Median: $3.75
Average: $3.92
High: $6.94
Current low price: $7.99
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3
Have/Want: 30/127
Where Sold: Madison, WI
Time It Took To Sell: 11 months
Where and When Bought: Facebook CD lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-
Sad To See It Go: No
I bought this CD initially when it came out because it was on the lips of many record collectors in NYC circa 1996. Whether I heard it from someone playing it or listing to it first from the purchase, I can't remember. I do remember buying it used for $10 at Rocket Science on Carmine. That one sold a long time ago, but I got this one in a $2 per box lot last January off Facebook. There have been fancy reissues editions for the 20th and 25th anniversaries, but I had a feeling this original CD version would sell around the other side of 5 dollars. I was right.
Being on the air at WFDU at the time, there are tracks that I gravitated to more than others. That probably isn't the optimal way to experience this type of music, but given the length, I tend to zone in and out of this type of stuff. By the end of the year this was #4 Pazz & Jop with only Beck, Fugees and Sleater-Kinney beating it out. However, I bought it before the final accolades came in. Since it was comprised entirely of samples, the album found it's way into the Guiness Book of World Records.
"The Number Song," "Building Steam With A Grain of Salt" and "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" and "Organ Donor" popped out the loudest it terms of things I might've played on the radio, but again this was designed to be heard in quartered segments at minimum. Perhaps it is better to listen via the double vinyl so you get a little break to collect your thoughts and continue if you care enough to lay out 30-50 bucks for a copy.
For me, the percussive tracks are king and the atmospheric tracks less so. During the third listening today I realized that wasn't going to change if I played it 20 more times. That doesn't mean they don't deserve to be here since it is a composition cycle in totality. This single CD was easier for me to listen to than lauded CD doubles by Roni Size and LTJ Bukum, even though I liked those artists in measured doses. Sometimes you pull that rarely seen strawberry rhubarb out of the jelly bin to put on your toast, sometimes you get good old grape, sometimes you all you need is butter.
Marmalade. I like marmalade.
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