Unfolding like a surreal film soundtrack on which jazz, classical, and jungle fragments are artfully blended with turntable tricks and dialogue snippets, Endtroducing...took hip-hop into the next dimension. You wouldn't know it, but DJ Shadow didn't compose a single note of original music for this album -- rather, he took every jazz, soul, rock, pop and hip-hop sample you can possibly imagine and took them to a place that can only be described as futuristic: Entroducing... came out more than ten years ago, but it still sounds like it comes from another galaxy completely. Simply put: it's a perfect record -- completely and entirely essential.
Key tracks: All of them. Again.
Next week: 1997
Hint: Alas, I have no idea. Again. I'll decide later.
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