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As a suburban Californian 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. The album is not complete. Why would you upload a incomplete album? The best fucking track, 'organ Donor' and two more are missing!

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So when he listened to R.P.M he described it as 'Hip Hop but mellow and trippy, Trip Hop', and it stuck. That same year, he also reviewed DJ Shadow and used the same term, which made is spread to the Americas as if it was a completely new genre. To this day bands like Massive Attack, DJ Shadow etc hate the term. They are hip hop. So happy to see this on the front page. And so happy to see this is as the most upvoted comment.

This album holds a similarly special place in my heart as well. And any fan of Shadow's music knows that he is a hip hop DJ at heart in everything he does. It speaks to the overall fearlessness and fluidity of the genre that it developed an entire technique to draw and 'sample' influences from other music to form something completely new. It's the essence and beauty of hip hop that it breaks boundaries and remakes everything anew. Now I realize this can be rather paradoxical/contradictory.but I see quite a bit of debate about whether or not DJ Shadow or particular tracks (like Midnight in a Perfect World) he does can be classified as hip hop or trip hop or whatever but I think ultimately what you can say with certainty is that the soul of his music is hip hop.if you know what I mean. Basically that the spirit and overall techniques being used to execute the music are more influenced by hip hop music and it's traditions than anything else.

If we must limit his music by putting a label on it, than the label absolutely must be hip hop rather than anything else because only through hip hop and its openness in mixing it up and sampling did DJ Shadow become inspired to make music like this. The point I am trying to make is that hip hop, in its inception, was always about being genre-defying and cross-cultural and that is the spirit of the music that pushed DJ Shadow to make this truly amazing record. Ensoniq vfx sd for sale.