” The companion piece to Now-Again’s first-ever issue of the lost J
when his highly acclaimed ambient group Emeralds were still actively touring and releasing records
Determined to craft a work of lasting power
plus the great American bassist Reggie Workman
Originally released on September 18
Endtroducing Bad Cop/Bad Cop ” The companion piece toAs 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. 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