When I heard Entroducing… for the first time, I had little perspective on the politics of sampling and too narrow a frame of reference to fully grasp the lineage from which DJ Shadow descended. At the time, my criteria for what made for good music didn't extend much beyond loud guitars and louder guitars—as most teenage boys in suburbia probably likewise concurred at the time. Endtroducing… obliterated that narrow perspective by introducing more than new methods of making music, but for listeners like me, a new way of hearing music—as if an entire spectrum of color had been made visible for the first time.
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