説明
カリフォルニア郊外出身のDJ Shadowが、全編無名のヴァイナルからのサンプリングのみで構築しヒップホップやエレクトロニカの歴史を変えた1996年作『Endtroducing.....』が正規復刻。
カリフォルニアの郊外で育ち、ヒップホップを社会抗議運動としてではなく純粋な音楽的革新として捉えていたDJ Shadow。彼が1996年に発表したデビュー・アルバム『Endtroducing.....』は、ヒップホップのリズムとカット＆ペーストの手法を基盤に、既存のジャンル概念を超越した音の世界を創り出した名作。
ほぼすべての音源を埋もれた無名のヴァイナルから採取したサンプリングのみで構成。緻密に重ね合わされた音の層が、どこか聞き覚えがありながらもまったく新しいサウンドを立ち上げる。ヒップホップやエレクトロニカ、さらにはポップ・ミュージックの領域にまで多大な影響を与えた金字塔を収めた復刻ヴァイナル。
A1. Best Foot Forward
A2. Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
A3. The Number Song
A4. Changeling **Transmission 1
B1. What Does Your Soul Look Like (part 4)
B2. Stem / Long Stem **Transmission 2
C1. Mutual Slump
C2. Organ Donor
C3. Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96
C4. Midnight In A Perfect World
D1. Napalm Brain / Scatter Brain
D2. What Does Your Soul Look Like (part 1) / Blue Sky Revisit **Transmission 3
As a suburban California kid, DJ Shadow tended to treat hip-hop as a musical innovation, not as an explicit social protest, which goes a long way toward explaining why his debut album, Endtroducing....., sounded like nothing else at the time of its release. Using hip-hop, not only its rhythms but its cut-and-paste techniques, as a foundation, Shadow created a deep, endlessly intriguing world on Endtroducing....., one where there are no musical genres, only shifting sonic textures and styles. Shadow created the entire album from samples, almost all pulled from obscure, forgotten vinyl, and the effect is that of a hazy, half-familiar dream -- parts of the record sound familiar, yet it's clear that it only suggests music you've heard before, and that the multi-layered samples and genres create something new. And that's one of the keys to the success of Endtroducing.....: it's innovative, but it builds on a solid historical foundation, giving it a rich, multifaceted sound. It's not only a major breakthrough for hip-hop and electronica, but for pop music. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
