Released in 1996, the instrumental album, Endtroducing… by DJ Shadow is considered today to be one of the greatest hip-hop albums and one of the greatest displays of DJing, sampling, and producing.

The pioneering producer explains why he switched up his sample-heavy workflow in favour of soft synths and Ableton Live ...

‘People said: “Nobody’s going to listen to instrumental trip-hop.” But I was thinking of huge soundscapes, like the ones by Pink Floyd or Beethoven’ By 1991, sampling had entered a golden era with De ...

In 1996, California's DJ Shadow released an album that shifted the musical landscape and took the art of sampling to a whole new dimension. It was made almost entirely of sampled music and sounds, and ...

“Bob wa-wa-wa Bob Wood, National Programme Director of the Chum Group, worked with us in producing…”. Thus begins one of the most passionately revered albums of the 90s, and indeed the last two ...

The sample artist known to his family as Josh Davis has never been hungry for the spotlight. Two decades ago he chose a stage name for himself that still reflects how he feels about attracting ...

Ask the NoCal turntable nerds, the trip-hoppers, the frat boys, the hippies or the ravers stoned on the beach at sunrise: Endtroducing... is deeply spiritual. Not in the conventional sense, but in the ...

In 1996, California's DJ Shadow released an album that shifted the musical landscape and took the art of sampling to a whole new dimension. It was the first record to be made almost entirely of ...

“Bob wa-wa-wa Bob Wood, National Programme Director of the Chum Group, worked with us in producing…”. Thus begins one of the most passionately revered albums of the 90s, and indeed the last two ...