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DJ Shadow – Preemptive Strike – Cassette

PREEMPTIVE STRIKE is less a second full-length effort from the Bay Area’s finest hip-hop-minded deconstructionist DJ Shadow, than a sextet of older odds patched together with a pair of newer ends. All of these songs have previously appeared as import Mo Wax 12’s, but only two (‘High Noon’ and ‘Organ Donor [Complete Overhaul]’) have come in the wake of Shadow’s debut.

It is easy to distinguish the old from the new. Pieces like the four extremely different parts of 1995’s hip-hop symphony ‘What Does Your Soul Look Like?,’ which takes up about half the album, are spacious; the myriad of samples breathing in between fluid, husky beats and melodies lift the music out of any pre-conceived sampledelic morass.

Whereas ‘High Noon’ is tight, edgy and fiery; all psyche guitar groove, tribal drums and preachy voices. So it seems that what Shadow’s music may have lost over the years in zen-like meditation it has gained in intensity-per-measure, an important trait for a dance-floor-commanding DJ.

Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal

Mo Wax Records

Track Listing
1. Strike One
2. In/Flux – (Patois)
3. Hindsight
4. Strike Two
5. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)
6. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)
7. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)
8. What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) – (Italian)
9. Strike Three (And I’m Out)
10. High Noon
11. Organ Donor – (Extended Overhaul)