Editing Endtroducing..... (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Erlewine">{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/endtroducing-mw0000082992 |title=Endtroducing..... – DJ Shadow |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=March 17, 2013 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130428020241/http://www.allmusic.com/album/endtroducing-mw0000082992 |archive-date=April 28, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]''
| rev2score = 5/5<ref name="AlternativePress">{{cite magazine |title=DJ Shadow: Endtroducing..... |magazine=[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]] |location=Cleveland |issue=105 |date=April 1997 |page=70}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s|Christgau's Consumer Guide]]''
| rev3score = A+{{sfn|Christgau|2000|p=[https://archive.org/details/christgausconsum00chri_0/page/83 83]}}
| rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev4score = A−<ref name="Wiederhorn">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,295206,00.html |title=Music Review: 'Endtroducing ... ' |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |location=New York |issue=355 |date=November 29, 1996 |access-date=March 20, 2013 |last=Wiederhorn |first=Jon |page=92 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018041530/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,295206,00.html |archive-date=October 18, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Guardian]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Bennun">{{cite news |url=http://www.djshadow.com/sites/default/files/djs_news_images/3_guardianendtro_enlarge.jpg |title=The hippest hop ever |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=September 13, 1996 |access-date=March 26, 2013 |last=Bennun |first=David |author-link=David Bennun |at="Friday Review" section, p. 18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222220607/http://www.djshadow.com/sites/default/files/djs_news_images/3_guardianendtro_enlarge.jpg |archive-date=December 22, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev6score = 8/10<ref name="Williams">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000116reviews.html |title=Gloaming Instinct |magazine=[[NME]] |location=London |date=September 14, 1996 |access-date=January 27, 2016 |last=Williams |first=Simon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817212832/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000116reviews.html |archive-date=August 17, 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev7score = 10/10<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2377-endtroducing-deluxe-edition/ |title=DJ Shadow: Endtroducing... [Deluxe Edition] |website=Pitchfork |date=June 9, 2005 |access-date=January 17, 2017 |last=Dahlen |first=Chris |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501061831/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2377-endtroducing-deluxe-edition/ |archive-date=May 1, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Fine">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/djshadow/albums/album/234499/review/5946435/endtroducing |title=Ghosts in the machine |magazine=Rolling Stone |location=New York |issue=752 |date=January 23, 1997 |access-date=August 21, 2015 |last=Fine |first=Jason |pages=62–63 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118000605/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/djshadow/albums/album/234499/review/5946435/endtroducing |archive-date=January 18, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{sfn|Sheffield|2004|pp=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/247 247–248]}}
| rev10 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev10score = 9/10<ref name="Michel">{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGB0iIRXtJEC&pg=PA81 |title=DJ Shadow: Endtroducing.... |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |location=New York |volume=12 |issue=10 |date=January 1997 |access-date=March 22, 2013 |last=Michel |first=Sia |author-link=Sia Michel |page=81}}</ref>
}}

''Endtroducing'' received critical acclaim.<ref name="Cooper"/> ''[[Alternative Press (magazine)|Alternative Press]]'' praised the album as "an undeniable hip-hop masterpiece" showing "DJ Shadow remembers that sampling is an art form",<ref name="AlternativePress"/> while ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' reviewer Martin Aston described it as "a cinematically broad spectrum so deftly layered that the sampling-is-stealing argument falls flat".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=DJ Shadow: Endtroducing..... |magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |location=London |issue=122 |date=November 1996 |last=Aston |first=Martin |page=120}}</ref> [[David Bennun]] from ''[[The Guardian]]'' said the record was "not only one of the most daring and original albums of recent times, but also one of the loveliest",<ref name="Bennun"/> and in ''[[Melody Maker]]'', he wrote: "I am, I confess, totally confounded by it. I hear a lot of good records, but very few impossible ones... You need this record. You are incomplete without it."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Tricks of the Shade |magazine=[[Melody Maker]] |location=London |date=September 14, 1996 |last=Bennun |first=David |page=49}}</ref> [[Robert Christgau]] commented in ''[[Playboy]]'' that ''Endtroducing'' consists of "not so much songs as compositions",<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Techno |magazine=[[Playboy]] |location=Chicago |volume=44 |issue=2 |date=February 1997 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |page=16}}</ref> and also claimed that while listeners unfamiliar with the album's style of music would not find its tracks as powerful, "they are so rich and eclectic, and spun out with such a sense of flow, that this album establishes the kind of convincing aural reality other British techno experimenters only fantasize about."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://robertchristgau.com/xg/play/1996-10.php |title=DJ Shadow: Endtroducing . . . DJ Shadow / Tricky: Pre-Millennium Tension |publisher=robertchristgau.com |access-date=August 29, 2015 |last=Christgau |first=Robert}}</ref> Author and rock critic [[Greil Marcus]] penned a glowing review of the album in ''[[Artforum]]'', where he called it "absolutely modern – which is to say ambient-dreamy and techno-abstract" and "quite brilliant throughout".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/199702/greil-marcus-32885 |title=Real Life Rock: Greil Marcus' Top Ten |magazine=[[Artforum]] |location=New York |volume=35 |issue=6 |date=February 1997 |access-date=May 29, 2021 |last=Marcus |first=Greil |author-link=Greil Marcus |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308051515/http://www.djshadow.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/news_main/djs_news_images/6_toptenrock_enlarge_0.jpg |archive-date=March 8, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' critic Jon Wiederhorn likened ''Endtroducing'' to "a surreal film soundtrack on which jazz, [[classical music|classical]], and [[jungle music|jungle]] fragments are artfully blended with turntable tricks and dialogue snippets" and said that it "takes hip-hop into the next dimension."<ref name="Wiederhorn"/> Tony Green of ''[[JazzTimes]]'' commended DJ Shadow's "unerring ear for motif and texture",<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://jazztimes.com/articles/9264-endtroducing-dj-shadow |title=DJ Shadow: Endtroducing |magazine=[[JazzTimes]] |location=Quincy |volume=27 |issue=3 |date=April 1997 |access-date=April 22, 2013 |last=Green |first=Tony |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413224253/http://jazztimes.com/articles/9264-endtroducing-dj-shadow |archive-date=April 13, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and Simon Williams of ''[[NME]]'' called him "both slyly knowing and brilliantly naive, fusing the dramatic and the deranged to his own sweet end."<ref name="Williams"/> ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''{{'}}s [[Sia Michel]] said that the album "practically folds you into its symphonic fantasia, the coming-of-age story of a 24-year-old bunk-bed dreamer."<ref name="Michel"/> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' journalist Jason Fine found that while ''Endtroducing'' occasionally lapses into less interesting "moody atmospherics", "even in the record's mellowest moments, Shadow's allegiance to the hard beats of hip-hop saves him".<ref name="Fine"/>

''Endtroducing'' appeared in numerous publications' lists of the best albums of 1996. The album topped year-end lists by ''[[Muzik]]'' and ''[[OOR]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Albums of the Year |magazine=[[Muzik]] |location=London |issue=20 |date=January 1997 |pages=64–65}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Jaarlijst OOR 1996 |magazine=[[OOR]] |location=Amsterdam |date=December 14, 1996 |language=nl}}</ref> and placed second in ''Melody Maker''{{'}}s.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Albums of the Year |magazine=Melody Maker |location=London |date=December 21–28, 1996 |pages=66–67}}</ref> It was voted fourth place in ''[[The Village Voice]]''{{'}}s [[Pazz & Jop]] critics' poll for 1996.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres96.php |title=The 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]] |location=New York |date=February 25, 1997 |access-date=March 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815213350/https://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres96.php |archive-date=August 15, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, named ''Endtroducing'' the best album of the year.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans96.php |title=Pazz & Jop 1996: Dean's List |newspaper=The Village Voice |location=New York |date=February 25, 1997 |access-date=March 27, 2012 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815234450/https://robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans96.php |archive-date=August 15, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> The album also ranked in the top ten of year-end lists by ''[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Review of the Year |magazine=[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]] |location=London |volume=2 |issue=100 |date=January 1997 |pages=158–178}}</ref> the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-29-ca-13384-story.html |title=The Future Beckons |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=December 29, 1996 |access-date=April 22, 2013 |last=Hilburn |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Hilburn |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414003147/http://articles.latimes.com/1996-12-29/entertainment/ca-13384_1_future-beckons |archive-date=April 14, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Albums of the Year 1996 |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |location=London |issue=38 |date=January 1997}}</ref> ''NME'',<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nme.com/features/1996-2-1045366 |title=Hail Merry! NME Writers' Top 50 LPs |magazine=NME |location=London |date=December 21–28, 1996 |access-date=March 28, 2013 |pages=66–67 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509045451/http://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/1996 |archive-date=May 9, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[Vox (magazine)|Vox]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Fifty Best Albums of 1996 – DJ Shadow: Endtroducing..... |magazine=[[Vox (magazine)|Vox]] |location=London |issue=75 |date=January 1997 |last=Willmott |first=Ben |page=95}}</ref>