5 Facts About DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing

It holds a Guinness World Record as the first album made entirely from samples. Every sound on the album came from vinyl records.

DJ Shadow built the album using an Akai MPC60 sampler. He assembled and sequenced all sampled material on this hardware.

No live instruments or original recordings were used. Every note, beat, and texture was lifted from existing records.

The album is a landmark in instrumental hip-hop and plunderphonics. It proved that sampling alone could create a cohesive, full-length work.

Its creation required painstaking manual editing. Shadow spent countless hours chopping and arranging vinyl fragments into new compositions.