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''Endtroducing.....'' is the debut studio album of American music producer DJ Shadow, released on November 19, 1996 on the record label Mo' Wax. The album is renowned for being composed almost entirely of sampled content, most of which originated from various vinyl records obtained by DJ Shadow during trips to record shops. ''Endtroducing.....'' was produced by Shadow in the span of two years using minimal equipment, most notably the Akai MPC60 sampler. In creating the album's overall atmosphere, he strived to capture the downbeat nature of his previous releases for the Mo' Wax label. The album's content features both moody, slow-paced tracks and upbeat jams reminiscent of DJ Shadow's early hip hop influences. The album was released to positive reception in the United Kingdom, where DJ Shadow had already established himself as a rising act. It reached the top twenty of the UK Albums Chart and was later certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Mo' Wax issued four singles to promote the album, including the chart hits "Midnight in a Perfect World" and "Stem". However, it would take considerably longer for ''Endtroducing.....'' to find success in the United States. Upon completing promotion of the album and returning to his hometown of Davis, California, DJ Shadow devoted his time to creating new music. ''Endtroducing.....'' later managed to peak at number 37 on the American ''Billboard'' Top Heatseekers albums chart. ''Endtroducing.....'' received universal acclaim from critics, who praised DJ Shadow's approach to sampling and the beats he created from samples. It ranked highly on various year-end lists of the best albums of 1996. The album is considered to be a landmark work in the instrumental hip hop movement, with DJ Shadow's innovative sampling techniques and arrangements influencing other producers to create similar sample-based works. ''Endtroducing.....'' has since appeared in several publications' lists of the decade's greatest albums. ==Background== DJ Shadow began his music career in 1989 as a disc jockey for the University of California, Davis campus radio station KDVS. He had previously experimented with a four-track recorder in his high school years to create music utilizing samples, having been inspired by other sample-based music such as ''It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back'' (1988) by American hip hop group Public Enemy. His KDVS work impressed A&R representative Dave "Funken" Klein, leading him to sign DJ Shadow to the Hollywood BASIC label to produce music and remixes.〔 DJ Shadow's output during this period – including the 17-minute long "Entropy" and his work with the Solesides crew – brought him to the attention of British musician James Lavelle, who then signed DJ Shadow to his Mo' Wax label. DJ Shadow's singles for Mo' Wax – including "In/Flux" and "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)" – were, as Sean Cooper of AllMusic wrote, hailed as "genre-bending works of art that merged elements of funk, rock, hip hop, ambient, jazz, soul, and used-bin found records." Andy Pemberton, a music journalist writing for ''Mixmag'', coined the term "trip hop" in June 1994 to describe "In/Flux" and similar tracks being spun in London clubs at the time. DJ Shadow's follow-up single "What Does Your Soul Look Like" topped the British independent music charts.〔 Following this period, he began work on his debut album, intent on capturing the downbeat mood that characterized his aforementioned three singles. The album was aptly titled ''Endtroducing.....'', as according to DJ Shadow, "it signified the fourth and final chapter in a series of pieces that I was doing for Mo' Wax with a certain sound, a certain tone, a certain atmosphere."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Endtroducing.....」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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