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Fifteen years ago DJ Shadow released his debut long-player, Endtroducing... It is a cut'n'paste instrumental hip-hop album; it effectively created that subgenre, all but creating an actual subculture. It wasn't music from another world - it was music from so many other worlds.
I heard the album for the first time in 1997 - I was working late nights in a …
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