DJ Shadow - Mutual Slump

Then I came to America, saw Xanadu, and that's all I wanted to do, rollerskate.

Album: Endtroducing [debut album]
Recorded: San Francisco, California
Genre: Trip Hop, Plunderphonics, Instrumental Hip Hop
Album Release: September 16th 1996
Length: 4.00
Producer: DJ Shadow [age 24]
Vocalist:
Label: Mo Wax Records

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Credits

AKAI MPC60 Sampler
The keyboard is sampled from Bjork - 'Possibly Maybe' (1995)

Details

• 'Mutual Slump' is a high-octane track that has the drums as the primary instrument. It's a wake up your neighbours type of song that plays after the delicate keys of 'Transmission 2'. The effect is startling. If you aren't ready for it you can be jolted in your seat. People could easily turn the volume up while listening to 'Transmission 2' only to be given even more of a fright by 'Mutual Slump'.
  
  
• The vocal samples on 'Mutual Slump' are provided by DJ Shadow's wife Lisa Haugen. They're a recollection of her memories from when she first moved to America as a child and saw the 1980 film 'Xanadu', which starred Olivia Newton John.
  
  
• 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.
  
• 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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