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| | Preemptive Strike | | | Music Artist : | | DJ Shadow | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Fontana Island | | Release Date : | | 1998-01-13 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Strike 1
2. In/Flux
3. Hindsight
4. Strike 2
5. What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 2
6. What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 3
7. What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4
8. What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1
9. Strike 3 (And I'm Out)
10. High Noon
11. Organ Donor [Extended Overhaul]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 The Tracks Go Off In This Direction...
Submitted on: 2009-04-26 |
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Echoes of `Endtroducing.....' are everywhere on Preemptive Strike: in the horns drifting through `In/Flux' and `What Does Your Soul Look Like? (Part 2)', underneath the pulsing noir of `Hindsight' and the desert-showdown meets 70s espionage soundtrack of `High Noon'.
That DJ Shadow is an artist is no question, his music is an aural equivalent of a painting canvas with percussion as the base coat, scratching for the brushes and samples as the colours. His talent is being able to step back and see the bigger picture ensuring every element fits correctly and that's why his records are distinctive. Nothing sounds out of place in any of his songs; it's almost as if they always existed waiting to be uncovered. Hearing the four parts of `What Does Your Soul Look Like?' is like flicking a radio dial through the channels of late twentieth century music. Guitars, spoken word, saxophone loops, stacked percussion and orchestral flourishes all fade in and out at will like sketches from a dusty stack of records Shadow found in grandma's basement.
Shadow lets the instruments absorb and fill up the space, rather than jumping directly into a song to get the listener's attention. His hypnotic use of percussion sets the scene and builds the songs slowly through progressive layers utilising silence and abrupt time changes to create a sonic journey. Samples are deftly manipulated through scratching, adding shifting textures like radio static interrupting a news broadcast. This approach gives `Preemptive Strike' a harder, more immediate sound that is no less compelling than `Endtroducing.....' just more assertive.
And while `Endtroducing.....' gave Shadow a bigger palette to work from, `Preemptive Strike' does the opposite and that is reason enough to have this album alongside `Endtroducing.....' to hear the origins of where Shadow came from and where he ended up. |
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 A cd never to be forgotten
Submitted on: 2009-03-04 |
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| Preemptive was my introduction to DJ Shadow and in my opinion he never disappoints. In a world of musical copy cats it's extremely refreshing to listen to music of this caliber. This album is a true classic and should be enjoyed by everyone. For best results listen to this album with headphones on, you will not be disappointed. |
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A worthy album
Submitted on: 2008-02-23 |
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The forgetten album I like to call it. Some people think the Private Press is DJ Shadow's second album but I beg to differ. This album stands well on it's own. Yeah I know 3 of the songs are on Endtroducing but the rest are all solid pre-Endtroducing DJ Shadow tracks. What Does Your Soul Look Like Part 3 is the best of the WDYSLL series. And then theres High Noon. Oh boy what a great track. One of my top Shadow tracks hands down. The Organ Donor remix is memorable but I prefer the original version.
My only riff is that it's a bit short. Especially if only consider the new tracks. And theres filler that honestly takes away from the album as a whole. It had really huge shoes to fill coming right after Endtroducing and given the genius of Psycence Fiction, I can see how it's forgotten.
Not his best but a phenominal album none the less. |
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The best of early Shadow b-sides and rare tracks
Submitted on: 2008-01-13 |
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As the liner says, this release encompasses much of Shadow's early work that predated Endtroducting, or was released outside of North America. Also, the title suggests what Shadow acknowledges as a protective measure against the clamping-down of sampling by the recording industry. Much of Shadow's early work relied very heavily on sampling, so to put these track on a release for popular distribution was a very wise release.
In/flux, Organ Donor (extended overhaul) and the What Does Your Soul Look Like (pts. 1-4) are monumental accomplishments in the realm of the modern sample and digging DJ scene, which Shadow pioneered and popularized, to the delight of millions. What can we do but listen and praise? |
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Better than Entroducing
Submitted on: 2007-11-08 |
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| As a DJ Shadow enthusiast for about a year now i was amazed that i didn't find this gem sooner. I initially bought entroducing, quickly followed by private press and then branched out to bands like uncle and lemon jelly. Finding this album reminded me of what i liked so much about DJ Shadow in the first place. The mixture of jazz instruments and a beat that makes you tap, this album is the most pure of all the acid jazz / drum bass albums i own to date. A must buy! |
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