DJ Shadow’s ‘Endtroducing’ Album Review with Sean Murray | Ep. 109

Yo yo yo! This week we welcome actor and NCIS legend, Sean Murray, onto the pod, to speak on a bonafide classic 90s record – DJ Shadow’s 1996 masterpiece, ’Endtroducing…..’ 💥 So get set for a wicked hip hop chat that delves into love for Aphex Twin, Madlib and (as always) Burial. 🍿

 

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Show Notes:

• Least hip hop thing in the last 24 hours? (01:06)
• Why this album should be in Crate 808 – and Sean’s love for Aphex Twin (02:30)
• He saw Kyuss perform in the desert (08:00)
• Why ‘Stem / Long Stem’ and ‘Midnight in a Perfect World’ are classics (08:30)
• Great Twin Peaks trivia to the album (18:23)
• Most Rewindable Moments: ‘Midnight in a Perfect World’, ‘Organ Donor’ (20:14)
• Hidden Gem: ‘Mutual Slump’ (26:55)
• Love for ‘Building Steam from a Grain of Salt’ (29:46)
• Thoughts on the album cover and title (31:30)
• Digging into ‘The Number Song’ (34:59)

 

And the superb dubstep documentary we spoke on from Timbah.On.Toast is here: https://bit.ly/3kdBBpX

 

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Also, we’d love to hear from you for our mailbag episodes, so email us at crate808@gmail.com with your takes on…

 

🎵 What are the best examples of xylophone and flute hip hop?

🎙 Which MCs dropped the best features in the 90s?

💥 What are the best guest openers on rap albums?

👀 Is Jay-Z’s ‘It’s Like That’ a Hidden Gem…or absolutely awful?!

🤔 Who has the best verse on ‘Reservoir Dogs’? Did Young MC use the beat better?

🎻 What are your top 5 rap ballads?

🎤 What is the BEST Raekwon verse ever and why?

📈 What is Ghostface Killah’s apex?

👽 What song off of ‘Ironman’ would get on a playlist you’d play to an alien to teach it hip hop?

😴 The strangest dreams you’ve had about a rapper

💎 What rapper’s swag would you wear to a wedding, funeral or job interview?

😯 Where’s the weirdest place you’ve met a rapper?

😬 What’s the best AND worst merch you’ve ever bought?

🖋 You have to get a rap song tattooed on you…which one, where and why?

👎 What’s the worst rap beat of 1995?

😭 What’s your best AND worst rap memorabilia?

 

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And our last series talking best 3-album runs in rap can be found here…

Ice Cube with Shawn Setaro (https://bit.ly/3kaYfOq)

Tupac with Andrew Barber (https://bit.ly/2HGr3QT)

De La Soul with Andrew Emery (https://bit.ly/324LJJn)

Gang Starr with Dart Adams (https://apple.co/2Vlx9t1)

A Tribe Called Quest with Rob Pursey (https://bit.ly/3oS73uX)

Redman with Take it Personal Radio (https://bit.ly/3tYFUcL)

OutKast with Justin Hunte (https://bit.ly/3b89bJh)

Mobb Deep with Chris Mitchell from Breaking Atoms (http://shorturl.at/zHIKO)

 

Catch all our Spotify playlists here…

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Slept-On Wu-Tang Bangers Playlist: https://spoti.fi/32QtAQG

Sample Corner Playlist: https://spoti.fi/3eYfhMd

 

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