Editing Endtroducing..... (section)

==Background==
[[File:DJ Shadow and James Lavelle.jpg|thumb|left|DJ Shadow (left) with [[Mo' Wax]] label head [[James Lavelle]] in 1997|alt=Two men stand behind a set of turntables in 1997.<!-- alt=The two men looking over a turntable -->]]

As a high school student, DJ Shadow experimented with creating music from [[sampling (music)|samples]] using a [[multitrack recording|four-track]] recorder,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dj-shadow-goes-public-248416/ |title=DJ Shadow Goes Public |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |location=New York |date=May 24, 2002 |access-date=March 20, 2013 |last=Krinsky |first=David |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614094320/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dj-shadow-goes-public-20020524 |archive-date=June 14, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> inspired by sample-based music such as ''[[It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back]]'' (1988) by the [[hip hop music|hip hop]] group [[Public Enemy]].<ref name="Rule">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.solesides.com/dj-shadow-mdj-shadow-keyboard-october-1997.html |title=DJ Shadow + Akai MPC = History |magazine=[[Keyboard (magazine)|Keyboard]] |location=New York |volume=23 |issue=10 |date=October 1997 |access-date=March 16, 2013 |last=Rule |first=Greg |pages=51–60 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130223043722/http://solesides.com/winblad/shadowkeyboard1097.html |archive-date=February 23, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> He began his music career in 1989 as a disc jockey for the [[University of California, Davis]] campus radio station [[KDVS]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.23.02/dj-shadow-0221.html |title=Made in the Shade |newspaper=[[Metro Silicon Valley|Metro]] |location=San Jose |date=May 23–29, 2002 |access-date=March 16, 2013 |last=Inoue |first=Todd |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130085533/http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.23.02/dj-shadow-0221.html |archive-date=January 30, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> His KDVS work impressed [[artists and repertoire|A&R]] representative Dave "Funken" Klein, who signed him to the [[Hollywood Records#Hollywood Basic|Hollywood Basic]] label to produce music and remixes.<ref name="Rule"/> DJ Shadow's output for Hollywood Basic, including the 1993 single "[[Entropy / Send Them|Entropy]]" and his work with the [[SoleSides]] crew, brought him to the attention of English musician [[James Lavelle]], who signed DJ Shadow to his [[Mo' Wax]] label.{{sfn|Taylor|2004|p=[https://archive.org/details/atoxofalternativ00tayl/page/87 87]}}

DJ Shadow's first two singles for Mo' Wax, "In/Flux" (1993) and "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)" (1994), utilized samples from "used-bin" vinyl records, blending elements of hip hop, [[funk]], [[soul music|soul]], [[jazz]], [[rock music|rock]], and [[ambient music|ambient]] music.<ref name="Cooper">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dj-shadow-mn0000949820 |title=DJ Shadow |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=March 16, 2013 |last=Cooper |first=Sean |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421113512/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dj-shadow-mn0000949820 |archive-date=April 21, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The singles were acclaimed by the British music press, and soon DJ Shadow and other Mo' Wax artists came to be viewed as leading practitioners of a nascent genre that the press termed "[[trip hop]]"{{sfn|Wilder|2005|p=66}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/12/mo-wax-james-lavelle-trip-hop |title=Mo' Wax after 21 years: James Lavelle goes for a trip-hop down memory lane |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=June 12, 2013 |access-date=May 30, 2021 |last=Muggs |first=Joe}}</ref> – a name coined by ''[[Mixmag]]'' journalist Andy Pemberton in June 1994 to describe "In/Flux" and similar tracks being played in London clubs.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/aug/25/origins-of-music-genres-hip-hop |title=Genre busting: the origin of music categories |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=August 25, 2011 |access-date=May 29, 2021 |last=Matos |first=Michaelangelo}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.mixmag.net/words/from-the-archives/classic-features/june-1994---trip-hop |title=Trip Hop |magazine=[[Mixmag]] |location=London |volume=1 |issue=37 |date=June 1994 |access-date=March 17, 2013 |last=Pemberton |first=Andy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411022256/http://mixmag.net/words/from-the-archives/classic-features/june-1994---trip-hop |archive-date=April 11, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In the summer of 1994, DJ Shadow started producing his first album.<ref name="Mlynar">{{cite news |url=https://www.sfweekly.com/music/dj-shadow-reviews-his-own-discography/ |title=DJ Shadow Reviews His Own Discography |newspaper=[[SF Weekly]] |location=San Francisco |date=September 8, 2011 |access-date=May 30, 2021 |last=Mlynar |first=Phillip}}</ref> He completed around half of the record, but Mo' Wax opted to instead issue the finished music as a single – "What Does Your Soul Look Like" – the following year.<ref name="Mlynar"/>{{sfn|Wilder|2005|p=99}} As a result, DJ Shadow began work on his debut album anew.<ref name="Mlynar"/> He was intent on capturing the same feel of his three Mo' Wax singles, and chose the title ''Endtroducing.....'' for the album as "it signified the fourth and final chapter in a series of pieces that I was doing for Mo' Wax with a certain sound, a certain tone, a certain atmosphere."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://xlr8r.com/features/rewind-dj-shadow/ |title=Rewind: DJ Shadow |magazine=[[XLR8R]] |location=San Francisco |date=September 27, 2012 |access-date=March 16, 2013 |last=Fader |first=Lainna |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214192449/http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2012/09/rewind-dj-shadow |archive-date=December 14, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>