DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World

Music video by DJ Shadow performing Midnight In A Perfect World. (C) 1996 Mowax Recordings/A&M Records Ltd.
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[@MadMaxBible]

This song made me realize and fully understand the power of sampling. A lot of people look down on sampling like it's 'stealing'. Nah, it's using building blocks to create something unique. It's always been. And this track is a perfect example. Giving the opportunity to people to make music that they would've never made otherwise.

[@felins2294]

i'd never understand the distaste for amazing sampling in music. it's a wonderful form of art in hip hop. albums like donuts by j dilla or endtroducing like this example are some of the most critically acclaimed hip hop albums of all time.

[@rottingsloth6562]

Word Up!❤

[@MadMaxBible]

​@@felins2294 This distaste comes from people who listened to producers that were lazy. You know the ones that took a 16 bar chunk of a song and laid a beat on that and called it 'their own new song'. I get the frustration. Because sampling is not about that. The goal of sampling - to me - is taking already existing bits and pieces and going as far away as possible from their original context. Combine them, play with them, make them almost unrecognizable to make something completely new. There's nothing wrong with that. And to the listener - it's also a challenge to find where all those bits and pieces came from.

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

My analogy was to describe sampling in terms of visual art terminology as: sonic collage

[@hamdelsun68]

​@@shruggzdastr8-facedclownsonic collage...I like that idea.

[@grahamjura3311]

This song came out in 1996 and it still sounds like the music of tomorrow.

[@rockkiller124]

That goes for whole album as well.

[@ClamBuster4]

that's one of the most beautiful comments i've read in a while, bruv... hats off

[@marvamaxwell4519]

Graham Jura it sounds like the mid 90s which is a great thing where the music was slow tempo with boom bap drums

[@markoseppanen8124]

+Graham Jura and it samples a song from 1974. Search for Pekka Pohjola - Sekoilu Seestyy (The Madness Subsides)

[@marvamaxwell4519]

honestly it came out in 96 and it sounds like 90s hip hop and as somebody that was 19 years old in 1996 it was 90s hip hop heavy drums chopped up samples very 90s

[@koenmetekohy1296]

All samples: David Axelrod - The Human Abstract (1969) (the piano at 1:17) Pekka Pohjola - The Madness Subsides (1975) (the synths at 0:08) Baraka - Sower of Seeds (1976) (the vocals at 0:40) Meredith Monk - Biography (1981) (that bass noise in the background at 1:10) Akinyele - Outta State (1993) (the guitar at 3:40) Organized Konfusion - Releasing Hypnotical Gas (1991) (the rapping that you hear at 0:00) Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music (1981) (sampled three times in this song, the vocals at 0:13, 1:17, and 2:11) Rotary Connection - Life Could (1968) (the drums at 0:26) Sorry if I missed a few samples, as there are probably a lot of other samples in this song that I missed. This is only according to WhoSampled.

[@Technicotop]

Thanks !

[@DylanFowler]

Top notch, every comment section needs someone like you.

[@EditorialJoe]

THUMBS UP THIS MAN! (Also I tripped over the Pekka Pohjola track a few months ago--I was like 'wait, wait I know this hook...')

[@xX_Stunttailija_Xx]

EditorialJoe pekka perkele!!!🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

[@viralvideo171]

thank you so much!

[@CanadianPrepper]

timeless classic

[@lindafield6577]

Just fucking WOW

[@oriondurdaller3349]

Yeah this is incredible

[@carljames4862]

zero 7 and portishead?

[@ja.8077]

Wasn't expecting to see you here😯

[@awandanu]

Go back to prepping

[@TheWinterShadow]

This song doesn't take me back....it takes me forward.

[@rusboify]

UMMFF

[@lovehand9531]

Niiice!

[@archphaeton2632]

with your best foot?

[@davelockwood8814]

So true bro.

[@jaycee6777]

Amen ✊

[@louiscarr899]

Man this song takes me back... I was walking home after work and this song came up on the radio on my mp3 player. It was 1am, the air was still and cool, no cars in sight and only the street lights illuminated my path home. I just decided to sit down on a bench and take everything in. The only way I can describe that moment was just total bliss

[@louiscarr899]

Yiannis Silver Nothing homo about apreciating good music and the memories it has left you with.

[@7immyJ]

@Chief Fn

[@bongiguana]

man i love that feeling! i was walking home from a party once, it was 2am and i was just a lil bit drunk... tycho came on shuffle on my ipod. i decided to take the long way home and listened to all of "dive" before i hit the hay. midnight walks are the best.

[@BonhamsBongo]

Takes me back to way before MP3!

[@louiscarr899]

bong iguana Duuuuuuuuuuuude I love Tycho! Hours will always be my favourite song from that album! Great to see another Tycho listener! Cool experience too! :)

[@marneymunchausen6437]

Anybody here in 2024 listening to this? I could listen to this entire album for hours on end. If you're here as of 2024 then I love you and I believe in you. And it gets better.

[@perpetualplatypussy69]

❤ Back atcha ❤️

[@Alaskanbrawl]

Me

[@melvinrivera9509]

@@Alaskanbrawl Forever and Ever

[@oakleyorbit]

I’m here..much love!

[@FlyTechDesign]

Just picked up this masterpiece on vinyl.

[@citythink]

I’m 50 now, was 24 when this came out and it still sounds just as f*ckin dope as it did then.

[@eggs1013]

Snap

[@trttt139]

you witnessed incredible things in music in your 20s then

[@brunojulio]

Amen

[@jones4150]

Damn we old 🤣

[@islam_will_Dominate]

you have nostalgia. this sounds like crap today. We have mumble rap and auto tune.

[@coastsmokin8252]

This was played at my best friends funeral. Thank you DJ Shadow🙏

[@thief257]

who was your friend? may he/she rip. ameen

[@markmanderson]

@Coast Smokin thats awesome buddy, they maybe gone, but not forgotten now everytime its played ;) just avoid floyd wish you were here, too sore even after 7yr, from experience.

[@sokar9438]

Sorry for your loss

[@coastsmokin8252]

tyler4tado go kick rocks you troll😉

[@wuzhattenin]

I want this played at mine as well. This song got me through tough times.. good times... boring times... shit this song has been with me since i first heard it well over 8 years ago.

[@Mochachocakon]

This song helped me so much on those lonely bus rides home after my night shift.

[@TheHumanBallsack]

Sometimes those lonely solitary travels at the twilight hour are the most beautiful but haunting...

[@yaylah7314]

@@TheHumanBallsack Sometimes

[@seetaami5810]

You may not know it, but there could be a '70s prog rock fan hiding right behind your eyes. Seek help, fun company and prog rock albums, and prospere. Love.

[@rumblefish9]

I play this after listening to Les Nuits by Nightmares on Wax at night

[@RebelliousIntuition]

i can totally relate to this

[@m-gmustata]

listening to this in 2020 with a joint in glasgow outside after it rained all day

[@1abcxyz9]

Lucky you

[@AriesSagSexxx]

Bitchn! I'm from the bay like dj shadow& I'm still listening in 2020 dabbing now! 😆 having a coffee speedball chaser. Dreaming of Scotland 🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌

[@ryanmcclymont1335]

Legend sir a fellow Glaswegian on the same level great times

[@temetnosce17]

Pretty sure I saw someone else post about a midnight trip in Glasgow 10 yrs ago....Deja vu bc I my memory doesn't fade me brav

[@otaddiction]

Blaze on, brother. Much love from California, where weed is on every corner

[@internship1033]

RIP Marlena Shaw (1939-2024). You can hear the drum samples from her hit single “California Soul” used in “Midnight In a Perfect World”.

[@thisistomorrow3293]

Wrong, the drum sample is from The Rotary Connection

[@Rikardiho]

This song needs to be sent out in space so extraterrestrials can hear it

[@MurcuryEntertainment]

If it's ever been broadcast on a radio, it already has!

[@lauritssandberg7551]

One of the best comments I´ve red in a looong time! One love!

[@lucidlagomorph5809]

hmm try Unkle - I am sure they made contact

[@fernandocarrazzoni]

We might even show them what nostalgia is.

[@ufi123]

lol where u think it came from...

[@AdamX21198]

This is one of those songs that fit greatly with nighttime driving. I don't know what it is, but it reminds me of wet city roads, shiny and illuminated by streetlights and neon bar signs. Got here from a 90s triphop playlist. A lot of these seem to have female vocals or female vocal samples, possibly a staple of the genre.

[@Commander23c]

Dude honestly I get you. I didn't think other people looked for stuff like that too. Where can I find this playlist?

[@samrugbyman89]

+Commander23c Saaaame feeling :D

[@AdamX21198]

***** I thought I posted it, but it's gone now? Look up "'90s Trip Hop / Downtempo". The playlist author is Mindcircus.

[@AdamX21198]

***** Yeah like I posted the link here, but it's... not here. Anti-Spam thingy?

[@kylerobinson1805]

so new york haha

[@TheSovietBear97]

Humankind, we lost a beautiful soul this week. He introduced me to music of this kind. Friends like that are ones to keep. He passed due to a heroin overdose. RIP Billy.

[@kenosabi]

Heroin strikes again 😢 Sorry bro. Sadly I know way to many people with the same story.

[@duncandownes5332]

😊

[@TheSovietBear97]

@@kenosabi Times are painful and people seek some sort numbing. Look out for those close to you.

[@tonea1976]

Rip 🙏

[@Ccrary35]

Just seeing this now but RIP Billy. Very sorry for your loss

[@therebelcamp9581]

I didn't discover this until 2002 and it was the beginning of a LONG wild life journey. This song has followed me the entire way and is one of the soundtracks to my life. I used to walk the streets of NYC, lonely listening to this in search of my purpose. I'm 45 and the happiest and fulfilled I've ever been. Bless up Yuh self!

[@torgan8560]

Instrumental's hip-hop masterpiece

[@TheMurdoc1983]

indeed

[@jimmyn7t]

would say it's trip hop

[@samelliott97]

technically falls under both genres

[@vmp8689]

i would say spirit hop

[@midinerd]

I'd sum it up as vergangenheit hop

[@stealthzi7465]

I think this is one of the rare songs that explains the song exactly to the title.

[@colostomyJones]

Danesty agreed!onomatopoetry? 😉 (Of the musical ilk maybe..)

[@Chameleonardodavinci]

Possibly my favourite track of all time

[@musicoverdose5860]

word

[@Jakraff-oi3wc]

2nd for me after building steam with a grain of salt

[@juliancastillo9570]

How can something with no lyrics evoke so much emotion

[@justindawson5930]

That’s the power of music

[@brettbissett81]

I can agree I have so many good memories from skateboarding before this song.

[@simonpichulasuelta5]

@@brettbissett81 dude, i love skating with trip hop, makes the tricks so clean

[@gabrielpetrouch]

Welcome to music, this is the end of songs

[@ricochetsixtyten]

Music can convey what words cant, language is terribly limited, if you think about it for a second all sorts of sounds existed way before language ever came along.

[@stan5990]

Demented, crazy, beautiful. A dance record you cannot dance to, chilled music which unsettles you, people singing who aren't there...

[@Likourgos_Katselis]

Rare on point comment!

[@AntiPlatitude]

Amen. Perfectly explained.

[@colostomyJones]

Stan 59 I like it! Keep up the free associative interpretations, (them’s my favorites) cuz they’re bold attempts to paint with words- that which falls short of honesty when we build prisons out of rational, expository logic... Even when we earnestly seek to translate our experience of listening to music into some sort of widely accessible coherence, the power of poetic imagery, surrealism, irrational incoherence, etc. can paradoxically have the effect of producing a more honest, coherent, grounded picture of that otherwise deeply personal, and impossible to truly fully transmit, experience! Whew! What a mouthful, heh... (Ever sonde I recently began responding to people’s comments on music on KZbin, I end up waxing grandiose and sprawling with prosaic, possibly pedantic, always obnoxiously alliterative assertions about my own feelings which I share with those to whom I respond. Your comments validate my own listening experiences 👍🏽 Hope you feel subsequently validated; connected to your fellow human audiophiles 😉 Stay human!

[@RobFieldFlorida]

If you think this is demented, may I suggest MC 900 Ft. Jesus.

[@mojo-music1396]

@@RobFieldFlorida I just looked at one of their songs, and I wasn't pleased...

[@rockkiller124]

Possibly one of the greatest songs from one of the greatest albums ever made.

[@LoverOfManyArts]

Definitely

[@michaeldrumm3711]

Easy on

[@andresquagliatti187]

For sure

[@Ismail-ie5gi]

Fact.

[@mar15115]

Nice

[@ajcoluzzi9374]

Dear DJ Shadow, I don't know if you will ever read this, but I want you to know this is the number one song for meditation for me pretty much since this video came out. There are nights where I listen to this song over and over and over and over again. This is the song I want played during my eulogy. This is definitely the number one song I've listened to the most in my life, and I'm nowhere near done listening to it. And if there is one song that is definitely I'll turn my life in a positive way it is this one. DJ Shadow, I don't know if you'll ever be able to read this but please know you have altered my life, alter my reality permanently in a positive way. Thank you so much Wherever You Are💯 42 years old, been listening to this since I was 18..

[@muttakinc2281]

I’m using this as part of my meditation as we speak!

[@cs14producoes]

Yo!

[@Sternertime]

Word

[@LoLo-hs7bp]

Same

[@wiirown_gerrard]

same here. 41 years old, been listening to this since I was 17..

[@satyricon65]

Trip-hop is always amazing.

[@sylvianblade75]

It's so distinctly 90s...most of the lofi hip hop beats that are popular today are all derived from trip hop but nowhere as organic and boundary pushing than OG trip hop was

[@Flapjack624]

My first DJ shadow song I ever heard and still love it💯

[@gensokyoclubhouse790]

Same here, this song is so timeless..

[@MrManjunathbj]

hfgj

[@hawthorneaberdson7277]

i had no idea he was making music in '96, but this means he was calling himself a DJ before everyone started doing it....

[@DharmaBaby]

Wrong. DJ goes back to the 50's for people working at radio stations and the 70's for hip hop.

[@badboytwig]

Bless em thinking DJ was used from 96 lol :)

[@aktimane249]

I like listening to this on my way to school in the morning, just sitting in the bus and watching the world go by

[@dantemixable]

i hope u still listent to this master piece, i do the same :)

[@ShezzLuvsShadow]

Bla Blubb I do the same thing, I listen to it on the train going to work. Watching the world go by, escaping reality

[@colinlarson9656]

where you at now bud, 4 years later?

[@RandyColby]

Believe it or not, you are living the dream.

[@temptor7585]

This was exactly me in 7th grade- 1997

[@communistloser3182]

I am incredibly lucky to have found this album. I always loved trip-hop and electronic music yet I had never heard of DJ Shadow. So, when my dad came home with Endtroducing on vinyl, which he found in his small hometown for 15 danish krones (2 euros), two years ago and gave it to me, I was going in completely blind. I have not been the same person since the first time I spun it.

[@HarryBalzak]

The first lyrics are "...the clock on the wall reads a quarter past midnight".The last lyrics are "Now approaching midnight". That means damn near 24 hours had elapsed.

[@mystychrysmthehumanprism3507]

Harry Balzak Or we've gone back in time together thru this song.

[@revelthemad]

I always thought it had to do with the doom clock

[@jamescarter7641]

This is perfection.

[@MatheusSilva777]

More than perfection.

[@mrtruthhurts2307]

Masterpiece

[@nkd3047]

...in a Midnight world

[@MissShadow-dn8oh]

Masterpiece

[@afanofcanta5357]

This song is like the most amazing cold milkshake in a bottomless glass

[@MrGreenAKAguci00]

a fan of canta try Amon Tobin - Natureland

[@thedreamcapture2681]

@@MrGreenAKAguci00 the progeny of this sound

[@edirath6240]

Interesting interpretation

[@joshviggiani9844]

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi Love came to mind.

[@Galil_Ace]

$5 shake

[@Hasuo2001]

0:13 For me, this vocal sample adds to the sacredness of this song. It's not noticeable, but I like it very much.

[@akaLids77]

no joke..I used to listen to this at night and just stare out my window gazing at the stars. I’d try to imagine a perfect and peaceful world. Good times.

[@DanielRamirez-lu6kv]

20 years passed in a blink of an eye. Thank you Dj Shadow, for inspiring me in so many ways.

[@muleOfficial]

+Daniel Ramirez yes mate agreed - 20 years ago this track made me see more of life than any other moment - awesome days\times\music\memories

[@Yikes6571]

This song is what my depression sounds like. It's such a bittersweet, but absolutely beautiful tune.

[@HDReMaster]

your depression/. you sure learned to own it

[@Yikes6571]

@@HDReMaster I beg your pardon?

[@HDReMaster]

@@Yikes6571 you are depression

[@nevergiveup9321]

Beautiful

[@dozhouse]

In 2002, I remember walking down the streets of New York City with this song on repeat. It was an unusually sticky summer day due to El Niño, 9/11 had just happened, the New Jersey Nets had lost for the four years straight from the LA lakers with Kobe and Shaq in the Finals, I was a young man who had just turned 20. I’m now at 42 AND I still listen to this song and remember and reminisce about those days 22 years ago. I also still remember the smell of the streets of New York and the people I met and loved

[@Vacheron7]

The way the build crescendos at 2:10 followed by the perfect introduction of the strings along with that sorrowful tone drop in that ghostly vocal still remains one of the most beautiful musical events I have ever heard, and still sends shivers down my spine 25 years after I first heard it!

[@Hjarialomar]

A true masterpiece. I wonder if in these times of Melodyne and Autotune anyone would end up with combinations like the overlaid vocal line at kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5-pk3WipamHnLM Feels like something can be lost by gaining total control.

[@Vacheron7]

@Lil Yeet In which case I’d suggest finding something else to listen to. 😊

[@wm1573]

@Lil Yeet wow you're so cool and edgy

[@trttt139]

@@Hjarialomar not 'something' - the whole music is lost if you have total control

[@supanuh]

Back when downloading music was new, it was neat that people share their playlists. I got this song off of someone's playlist back in 2001. I had never heard it and it blew my mind. Been listening to it ever since. Great track.

[@rudtv]

Easily one of the greatest songs of all time

[@Kasvain]

The sample is Pekka Pohjola's composition called "Sekoilu Seestyy", from his 1974 album "Harakka Bialoipokku". The vinyl album was re-released under "B The Magpie" on Island Records (V 2036) in the UK 1975.

[@nuketheswamp7774]

And here I thought it was Tears for Fears. Didn't realize they borrowed it also.

[@daelen.cclark]

hondakassi The song itself was named “madness subsides” in English.

[@skeeter4196]

hondakassi and also David Axelrod. Off songs of innocence

[@jandoetternietoe]

Pekka Pohjola is (or better: was) a genius. And I am not even from Finland!

[@uwu-ul1qp]

one of the like 10 samples yes.

[@girlgirl55]

When I first heard this song in 1996, I knew I'd still be listening to it 24 years later, but not through a *mobile telephone* during a global pandemic. Stay safe everyone ✌🏼

[@blacklistedh5947]

Global pandemic is a nice reason to listen to all album endtroducing

[@JPNesker]

Well put.

[@leoc5352]

merci, toi aussie.

[@Pskawt]

Yeah exactly. Stay safe, don’t believe the flu was a global pandemic & don’t get injected with bullshit

[@paulparker8298]

It’s timeless

[@neliorodrigues7407]

Dear god, this makes me cry! One of the greatest songs of all time, surely.

[@smiauu]

Never ever have a beat had this much impact on me

[@DamienDarksideBlog]

I was walking down the street the other day, and out of the corner of my eye I saw an old record shop. Right on the top of a rack of vinyl was Endtroducing. That started my record collection two years ago.

[@justintaylor7213]

+Ryan Heath stupid

[@big_pippin]

glad your a collector, music ain't the same these days

[@justintaylor7213]

+Conroy McFab mhm keep downloading those mp3s :)

[@MrOully101]

+DamienDarksideBlog Where were you?

[@affalaffaa]

+MrOully101 Could have been anywhere. We all know how easy it is to get that very old record Endtroducing. Since the dawn of time my...............

[@2thumbs12]

It's 2022 and I have just discovered DJ Shadow,I'm 67 and loving it. Thanks to KZbin premium....

[@willr8764]

The apex of Entroducing, which is in itself one of the most surreal and beautiful hip hop albums ever recorded.

[@Tendomcgoobin]

One of the greatest driving songs of all time.

[@binoisonfire]

This is what freedom sounds like. I feel at peace when I listen to this song.

[@ktx49]

exactly...euphoric freedom in the form of sound-waves(music)

[@icecoldcube2823]

This might sound weird to you but it makes me feel like im missing out on something amazing. It makes me crave my youth too and i got the same feeling of missing something back then. My brother raised me on what I suppose you can call intelligent music like this. Thank God for my brother

[@tainoman1998]

@@icecoldcube2823 dude, I get that feeling a lot

[@chrisnolan8885]

You and I will have no freedom 6 years from the date of your comment

[@antwill7916]

Was lucky enough to be in college when this came out... late nights, new friends, new freedoms, and a great unknown... what a time to be alive. 20 years later and it still sounds timeless.

[@keshaunbates2586]

I experienced this album during community college. Even tho I just left college recently it will always remain with me.

[@rhettpeter83]

That was well put man I felt it with you as I read it

[@jackmoore4243]

i took the trip of a life time when i was a teenager and went to japan for a week. one night in osaka at 1 am, while all my friend were drinking and messing around, i took a walk while listening to this album. i just remember trying my hardest to soak in all the neon lights and the city’s tranquility in as much as i could. so many memories associated with this album that i couldn’t even break down all of them. thank you shadow, you genuinely changed my life.

[@phillwilson8916]

That sounds amazing! Definitley something I want to do now

[@soulfulvibration5660]

this song is so etheral and huge shout out to that black dude on the drums

[@TheWinterShadow]

Soulful Vibration Yeah, he's taking things serious.

[@rainofdespair]

serious drummer. how can he play such a perfect loop with perfect acuracy

[@TheWinterShadow]

DJ Shadow is the actual real time drummer.

[@rainofdespair]

+TheWinterShadow i was joking :p

[@94style]

+TheWinterShadow *percussionist. He doesn't lift a drum stick on the entire album.

[@lukasz_majewski]

Lovely times for me.

[@andrewleyden2752]

This song saved me from death. In Ireland, in 1999. Long live DJ Shadow. Josh FTW.

[@sergioguerrero8135]

Listening to this in 04-2021, 21:06. A Colombian guy living in USA. Stoned and alive...

[@fazertace6837]

Smoke on brother. Peace from wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

[@ochjoenge]

It's been sixteen years since I've first heard this. The memories it envokes are still as magical.

[@Staceysprobablycrying]

When this came out we would put it on when we drove to San Francisco in the 90s. Sometimes it would be rainy as we came over the bay bridge and the atmosphere of the song with the city lights rising out of the fog made a permanent impression on my and my friends brains

[@AdoniaTT]

I love this!

[@triphopartists]

This track is a classic. Part of the golden age of music. Respect to DJ Shadow and other darker sounding trip hop artists like Unkle, Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky, DJ Krush, HTDA, Allflaws

[@stizan9185]

Why are they put in the same label that makes no sense "trip hop", their sound is unique and different with different elements.

[@jamiethomas3768]

And Mimi💖💝🩷💗💓💘💞💕Page💖💝🩷💗💓💘💞💕Covered Teardrop💧,a Song🎧From Massive Attack. Lisa Hannigan covered Glory Box📦.

[@Day-ZDuke]

@@stizan9185...it’s because all these artists evoke a similar “trippy” vibe with their music. Additionally, all of these artists use drum beats / drum machine rhythms that are common in hip hop as well , kinda the underlying tone of the music

[@stizan9185]

@@Day-ZDuke I mean I see how a track like Tricky - Aftermath would fit that label but Portishead - Roads or Massive attack Teardrop/Dissolved girl not really.

[@amjh4lah809]

CHOON. What an album ❤

[@DrHellno008]

This song saved my life. I was so fortunate to tell him that face to face years ago. His gratitude for that statement was almost overwhelming to him.

[@blueblade455]

Can you imagine how dope a collaboration album would've been with The Deftones and DJ Shadow back in the late 1990's?

[@malakisands8180]

When this came out DJ Shadow performed at the Bowery, incredible set and to see him live mix was pure genius

[@laffetum3050]

This is probably one of the very few songs i never skip when i hear it randomly

[@PeteLarson-cd3bf]

Yo shadow I listen to this tape front and back for 8hrs straight in 1998 with a chick in a car I stole from my prents. Always loved your shit thanks for the awesome time man one of my favorite nitz yo.

[@jayqsamo]

After all these years it's insane to find out that the main sample is from an artist from my country. Pekka Pohjola 👌🇫🇮

[@cremetangerine82]

This song reduces me to tears.

[@_D1886]

Maybe the greatest album of all time. Every track is just 100% perfection. 👌

[@eblb1ful2]

Listening to this while it is midnight in the Bronx, NY and they go together like peanut butter and jelly..heavenly.

[@qballzintown1]

+Adyman DJ Shadow is from CA

[@negativelyevil]

+Quinn McCullough its them east coasters always trying to claim good music, lol.

[@dont_call_me_anthony89]

I first heard this tune sometime in 1998, then never heard it again until this moment.

[@anthonygadgetx]

Had you been searching for it, missing the name? Very frustrating. I recently found a Strangler's song from a single listening 30+ years ago. (The song was Always The Sun BTW)

[@neoasura]

Same here, I just re-heard it on a Detroit radio station recently. It prompt me to go and look up the stations playlist as soon as I got home..thankfully they had it listed. It's hard to find otherwise..not many lyrics to search for. Same with a few Art Of Noise songs.

[@dont_call_me_anthony89]

Frankly I had no idea what it was called, nor did I even know who DJ Shadow was. I know I heard the tune on an old audio cassette in the summer or fall of 98, then never heard it again until I recently came across a KZbin video chronicling the history of sampling in hip hop. As soon as it got to 1996, a snippet from Midnight in a Perfect World played and thought to myself "Wait a minute! Where do I remember this tune from?!!"

[@FrakBeats]

Cool story bruh

[@theprospektor6267]

This track brought me peace within myself

[@maquilu]

My youth, my first love and the summer of 1998. This makes me goosebumps. love it so much.

[@katkillin]

First time hearing this song was in 1997. Always had to hit repeat! 20 plus years later still my go-to song while watching the stars.

[@Jerwu1t]

probably best track you'll ever hear

[@AlexTraitor]

I agree!! Another great songs for me are: Pretty soon i don't know what but something is going to happen - norma jean slow gold becoming - thomas gilles immersion highway - thomas gilles twist - tones on tail biscuit - portishead pedestal - portishead clams casino - culture shock (the version without rap "im god" is awesome too) Maxine ashley - six underdround (original by sneaker pimps)

[@semp0001]

You should listen to Nightmare on wax - les nuits

[@martskione]

Great video too. Love how it’s visually showing you each sample.

[@kim1570]

@@AlexTraitor Great list. I would add to this list, 'Dissolved Girl' by Massive Attack.

[@BryHong]

I can't believe it's been 17 years since I bought this album at the Tower Records in La Jolla. It still sounds so fresh. And Tower Records hasn't even existed as a retail chain for 7 years now. When did I get so old?

[@user-tm6qj7je1v]

brybry26 they still exist in japan

[@heavybar3850]

we still have tower records in dublin

[@EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle]

this song captures such a particular mood of somber nostalgia that's so vivid and overwhelming. i'm stunned every time i hear it

[@kil44ua43]

One of the greatest songs of all time

[@geraudonly6229]

Entroducing was one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.

[@jaymondkreek854]

This kinda sound like a masterpiece. *literally my first time ever checking out Dj shadows music . Thanks to all that recommended.

[@ramirobarajas4]

I remember being 15 just skating in the middle of the street at midnight to this track and it truly is a work of art

[@ThePunter209]

Just a year ago I developed insomnia that just wouldn't let go of me. Even after college followed by boxing training I couldn't fall asleep. Then one day I stumbled on this. No kidding put this on loop, covered my laptop screen and fell asleep. Not because it's boring, but the rhythm is just soooo damn satisfying. Now I love this entire genre.

[@HenryCullenDaveTheDrummer]

One of the most amazing uses of the sampler in modern history.

[@Carlitonsp1]

Knowing that this song was made entirely of samples, this is a pretty ambitious attempt at a music video.

[@Pedro-uz8jz]

1996. I was 15 years old. First time I heard this track was on the radio, Q101 in Chicago, Wednesday night. It was eternal bliss. It still is and has been etched in my brain ever since. One of the best songs, if not, top 10 songs, in my book. Man! The feeling I got when I first heard it......wish I was 16 again. Memory eternal.

[@Its_Renee_]

0:25 is haunting yet it's beautiful and gives me goosebumps at the same time. It just hits so deep!

[@JimmyJaxJellyStax]

2:09 still gives me evocative chills down my spine

[@FightingForceSoulless]

Just discovered DJ Shadow in 2019, Endtroducing... and yeah, this is my favorite song from it, I'm glad I got to experience a masterpiece

[@akuxeru]

This song sounds to ahead of its time. Still does.

[@abnormal2270]

This winter I used to spend a lot of time at my best friend house , in a different neighborhood , so I took a lot of trains in that season . Every time I was on the way home I listened to this song , as I'm deeply in love with DJ Shadow . And since the train station was in the open , every night I waited for the train listening to this song, watching the stars and a good portion of the big city I live in in the cold of the winter. That's why I'm in love with this song. It brings back so many peaceful memories of a better time . This maybe sounds like a meaningless thing to who reads this comment, but every time I listen to this song I get an incredible chill down my spine.

[@MintCops]

I hope it stayed like that

[@brmbkl]

for me, "the perfect winter song' - thats; gangstarr - code of the streets

[@brmbkl]

what Im saying - I totally get what you mean by "brings back so many peaceful memories of a better time .... every time I listen to this song"

[@gonzoindigenousone8939]

One of the best instrumentals ever made. I tried to freestyle over it....just couldn't. This alone is close to perfect as you can get. Respect Shadow.

[@thief257]

freestyle just won't work. ur respect thou supersedes ur efforts

[@originalm3233]

*I am only just now discovering DJ Shadow even though I am old enough that I should know his work. What is so compelling to me is that he takes such obscure and almost untraceable vinyl tracks to turn it into a creative masterpiece. The sum is greater than the parts with DJ Shadow.*

[@colins1358]

Still one of the best ever. Crazy. Gives me chills. Reminds me of the good times with family and friends in the 90s. Only the real cats understand. This is why we are suffering in this world. Cause this style is gone. We have no idea how to relate to this world anymore. Props. big ups to all the dope homies and chickas who have keep it real through out life. Much love.

[@ThePeter281]

Your words are so true. 90s was magic decade. In Poland where I came from too. Greetings for You.

[@MrBjnelson]

This is the song that made me fall in love with this album. The sampling is perfect.

[@cedricluckett3874]

After 25 years I still consider this is the best electro-music album ever released.

[@donnaleon7473]

Some good music still doesn't change.

[@remnow]

I was skipping school when I bought entroducing the day it came out. It was at a mall in a store called camelot music. I didn't know anything other than it looked like people digging in crates on the cover, and as a person who wanted to sample and make beats at the time that was enough. I hit the jackpot of all jackpots that day, and ever since I've thought about that experience and the chances of it all happening the way it did. No tape/cd/record has ever been played more in my one humble lifetime so far. Sometimes my 2nd favorite track changes, from changeling to organ donar, to what does your soul but usually #2 for me is Building steam with a grain of salt... but #1 has always been Midnight In A perfect World. I've had the luck to share this with a few people at different times in my life. Every time I listen it's like another small footnote gets added to where I am, what I've done, what I've been through, and those that shared space and time with me. I wish everyone the best and hope you find a Midnight.

[@luisjiron8154]

Listening to this in 2021, and STILL I appreciate this so much. There’s something about the 90’s that will remain so nostalgic to me, and it’s a vibe that no longer exists today.

[@giorgiag6490]

anche a me !Mi ricorda qualcosa di importante e nostalgico ( credo di sapere cosa) ma non riesco a in inquadrare in quale posto ero! mi ricorda la fine del 1996 e il 1997...

[@Braaaaaaa]

I second that man. That 90s nostalgic feeling hits hard when I listen to songs like this. Dj Krush gets me in that mood as well. The whole 90s music scene was very special and MTV was a big part of it for me - the times have changed unfortunately, but classic like these propel me back in time and hypnotise me for a short while. Music really is magic sometime.

[@MythicSuns]

It does, it just isn't as popular. Honestly I get similar vibes from listening to Snow Park by Connect.ohm

[@NowInAus]

Simpler more exciting times, music like this was crafted not fabricated and it wasn’t about glamour, right? It was emotion and rhythm and working class kids making something totally new. And we were young and right there

[@luisjiron8154]

@@NowInAus Yup, what a time it was to be alive. I was only 5 years old when this album came out. So I wasn’t a 90’s kid. I was a 90’s baby.

[@rubendurango667]

'Endtroducing' was one of the first records I got when I started collecting vinyl in the ninth/tenth grade. (So around '07; I'm old.) I was admittedly a difficult, lonely kid that'd find solace in listening to music in my bedroom most of the time. 'Midnight's always reminded me of that period in my life. Artists like Shadow were what led me down a path of getting serious about music and cultivating a knowledge via headphones and speakers.

[@eatyoeggs]

Off to finally see him in 2 days. I've hit 51 yrs old, but hey...you never forget your bucket list.

[@kee04O]

the god of sample

[@Fredwitrave]

After 25 years this song sounds as f?cked up as it did in 96. In a good way. Unique combination of ingrediënts. Very emotional song. Great album too.

[@DWFORTY]

Every time I get stuck on type beats on KZbin, not able to find golden flows or just suffering mental blockage, I come back to this beat. Even if I’m trying to hop on a whole different modern type of sound, this beat helps me clear that blockage and just go with the flow.

[@JRosevelt]

I discovered this in 1997'.....decided to look it back up now in 2021.....wow...24 years later it doesn't disappoint...it almost somehow encapsulates all the time that's elapsed between then and now. Those what understand are the only who can relate. The vibe of this song speaks for my existence. When I die...I would like this to be one of the songs played at my funeral.

[@yosoywilson78]

@@scotthill6237 Just heard this song at 43 for the first time and it takes me back to being 18. Im disappointed I didnt have it for the last 25 years.

[@soaribb32]

The numbing feeling of wishing to die is still stronger than any other.

[@Dante_yo_son_of_sparda_yo77]

I hope your feeling well

[@Eastsidesavage]

Don’t do it bro

[@iktomi5149]

A track that will never get old. It can be played for a variety of moods. Beautiful