DJ Shadow: Endtroducing.… DJ Shadow

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Vivian Nereim wrote in the New Haven Advocate: "There are definitely people out there who reduce Girl Talk down to a gimmick. They're wrong. Yes, his music is entirely composed of samples. But he weaves them together in bits and pieces to create new sounds altogether. … There are definitely other people out there who think Girl Talk is some sort of demi-god — the trailblazer of the decade. But they're wrong, too. This is not the first time a sample has been taken, nor the first time whole records have been composed of samples. Back in 1996, DJ Shadow, an eclectic musician from the Bay Area, put out Endtroducing..., a comprehensive album with a listener-friendly feel, entirely created on a 12-bit sampling drum machine. He's made several albums since, to various amounts of critical acclaim. Not that DJ Shadow was the first. The roots of re-appropriation as music are much deeper. But Gillis more than acknowledges the point, saying he gets the DJ Shadow reference 'not as much as I would almost hope. That's a guy who really paved the way for making original music out of samples.'"