DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
The clock on the wall reads a quarter past midnight.
Album: Endtroducing [debut album]
Recorded: San Francisco, California
Genre: Trip Hop, Plunderphonics, Instrumental Hip Hop
Album Release: September 16th 1996
Single Release: September 2nd 1996 [debut single]
Length: 5.00
Producer: DJ Shadow [age 24]
Vocalist:
Label: Mo Wax Records
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- DJ Shadow called the record endtroducing because he saw it as the end of his introduction into the music industry. He includes his previous three singles on Mo Wax as part of this opening chapter. The singles are 'In Flux', 'Lost and Found (S.F.L.)' and 'What Does Your Soul Look Like?'.
- The track is an instrumental.
- DJ Shadow was depressed while making the album and has said that you can hear his self doubt on certain tracks.
- The track is nocturnal and haunting. It feels like staying up late at night and savouring every note of the music, wishing it could last forever while at the same time knowing morning will come. The song encapsulates the short reign inbetween when music is king.
- DJ Shadow has described his music as 1996 hip hop but without the materialistic trappings.
- "There's very few people that are willing to put experimentation above the bottom line which is the dollar. There's always been a more open mind towards experimental music in Europe and I think that definetly shows from Kraftwerk on up. There's a little more of a willingness to sort of let the creativity come out." (DJ Shadow talking to BBC Radio Ulster in 1996)
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