As 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 albumEndtroducing...sounded like nothing else at the time of its release. Read more about Endtroducing... on All Music Guide
In February of 2002, Muzik magazine compiled a list of the "50 Greatest Dance Albums Ever". Usually lists like this don't age well in hindsight, and most of them are good for nothing more than the kind of Monday-morning quarterbacking practiced ...read the complete review at PopMatters