
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing - Vinyl (LP)
Label: Mo' Wax / A&M Records Released: 2006 Shadow's classic first album has been consistently voted one of the best records of the '90s, in magazines such as Spin, Q, Urb (whose readers voted it the best album ever made), Melody Maker, etc. A "Deluxe Edition" was released in 2005. See below for some of the accolades the album has received over the years:Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.80) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."Rolling Stone (1/23/97, pp.62-63) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...The DJ built songs out of layer upon layer of sampled instruments and other sound fragments, most of which he processed, looped and re-arranged far beyond recognition....funky rhythms that never sound like they've been cut and pasted together..." Spin (p.134) - "[T]his remains a stone classic, channeling Afrika Bambaataa's genre-splicing, DJ-booth mysticism into a fully realized studio epic..."Spin (9/99, p.126) - Ranked #15 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."S