DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like EP

This is not a dream.

Album: What Does Your Soul Look Like EP [debut album]
Recorded: San Francisco, California
Genre: Trip Hop, Plunderphonics, Instrumental Hip Hop
Album Release: 1994
Single Release: 1995
Length: 32:32
Producer: DJ Shadow [age 22]
Vocalist:
Label: Mo Wax Records

Full EP


Part 4


Part 1


Part 2


Part 3

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 6 million
YouTube Music: Over 500 thousand

Credits

AKAI MPC60 Sampler

Details

• 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'.
  
  
• 'What Does Your Soul Look Like' was released as an EP two years before DJ Shadow's debut album, giving us an early taste of the revolutionary music to come. The tone and theme of the work is in the same style as 'Endtroducing' with its long instrumentals and dusty soundscapes. The EP is a waking dream told in four chapters that explores existential questions through sound. It's a moonlit symphony, music for the nocturnal and the introspective who stare out of windows in smoke-filled rooms searching for answers in the rain-soaked city below.
  
  The parts of the song are deliberately listed in the wrong order. The tracklist goes part 2, part 3, part 4, part 1. So the end is the beginning because it ends with part 1. I think this is to communicate to the listener that the EP will break the traditional rules. DJ Shadow employed the same method of reverse naming on his debut album 'Endtroducing', replacing the a part of the word "introducing" with the word "end" in order to put the end at the beginning.
  
  
• The track is an instrumental.
  
  
  
  
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