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Metaphysically Effervescent...
DJ Shadow, master mixer, reached his creative zenith in Preemptive Strike with music that forces the listener to manifest the meaning. Sound clips, definitive scratches, muted brass, and drum beats undulate through the smooth rhythm and produce a pensive mindset throughout the experience. There is no question of the skill involved to blend so many unique sounds into a medley. The album starts off with a percussion intro that fades into the mellow masterpiece In/Flux. Hindshot follows, giving you the impression of anxiety and fear with foreign ambiance. The next four tracks contain the thought provoking What Does Your Soul Look Like. The Soul series, dips into your conscience and emits a whole theological feel that undermines a continuous harmony. Highnoon and Organ Donor are no doubt, the most definitive tracks, radiating a feeling of euphoria through your body. The fast tempo offers diversity to the album compared to the calm In/Flux and Soul series, giving it an appealing array of emotional enigmas. The second disk features DJ Q-Bert along with Shadow, linking all of the tracks into a megamix. High and low, fast and slow, the megamix offers incredible energy. I cannot offer enough emphasis to how truly incredible this album is, please open your mind and buy it.

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Before There Was Endtroducing......
Preemptive Strike collects some of DJ Shadow's pre-Endtroducing... work (and a new track or two) onto one CD. The results are what you'd expect from Shadow: more quality hip-hop that challenges the listener. The first track is Shadow's 12-minute masterpiece "In/Flux" which never once becomes monotonous. Shadow is able to grab the listener's attention by switching up beats, samples, and everything else you can think of. "Hindsight" is a dense and hypnotic track that pulls you in while the "What Does Your Soul Look Like" quartet amazes, especially parts two and three. "High Noon" is a fast-paced track that could easily fit into the soundtrack of a film while "Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)" gives you a little more of the way-too-short cut that appeared on Endtroducing... However, other pre-Endtroducing... cuts such as "Entropy" and "Lesson 4" are absent. But nobody can ustilize samples like Shadow can and all of the material here works. Pick this one up.

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the Intro to Shadow for Buddhists
This record is getting ripped on by a couple of reviewers for not being Endtroducing... or Private Press. They all agree that High Noon and Organ Donor are all that make this cd worth having and that is some straight-up bull$!@#. This was my introduction to Shadow and it might have taken a little while to really sink in, but it hooked me on his music and made me vow to pick up everything he laid his lily white hands upon. This record is like Neitzche's void opening up in your mind and fixing its dark gaze right into the center of you. I've just heard Joseph Campbell mention that poetry is a metaphor for all the mysteries of existence and this for me is a transcendent poem that has helped glimpse behind the mask of the mysteries.

Preemptive Strike is mostly slow and plodding, but each beat dropped lands right in the center of my head. It builds and builds, creating mischief from disparate sources of sound, weaving together a web that seems to form a story that you could almost make out if some of the pieces weren't missing. Some of the most affecting spoken samples are from "Johnny Got His Gun", as I later found out. Go see that movie if you like this record. If you enjoy "Diamond Sea" by Sonic Youth, "1983..." by Jimi Hendrix or "Revolution #9" by the Beatles, give this record a couple of spins through a pair of huge headphones.