DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World

[@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!

[@OhHellNah361]

Just picked up this masterpiece on vinyl.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 ✊

[@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”.

[@M31eighty]

I'm just here to support a Marlena Shaw shout out, lol. That track feels so good.

[@klanggenerator2918]

1942-2024

[@_D1886]

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

[@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

[@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! :)

[@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!

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@therebelcamp]

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

[@Chameleonardodavinci]

Possibly my favourite track of all time

[@musicoverdose5860]

word

[@Jakraff-oi3wc]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@bigfast5598]

It’s a great touch

[@mrlevinielsen]

The vocals at 1:18 are gorgeous

[@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

[@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..)

[@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..

[@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...

[@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.

[@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

[@aesthetic_yatsura]

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

[@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.

[@jamescarter7641]

This is perfection.

[@MatheusSilva777]

More than perfection.

[@mrtruthhurts2307]

Masterpiece

[@nkd3047]

...in a Midnight world

[@MissShadow-dn8oh]

Masterpiece

[@thescinema]

I cannot believe it's been 28 years, Shadow. This song and your work inspired me to start producing music. So, thanks.

[@berto2460]

let us hear it!!!!

[@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 :)

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@yellow_jacket3260]

This is the kind of song you would play if you are on a taxi ride, late at night, in New York City, around the late 90's to early 2000's

[@doggystyly]

My friend plays this driving me home night and they are related

[@neliorodrigues7407]

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

[@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.

[@countchoco27]

By dark of moon, you came into the garden of my heart, planting seeds of love. 0:40

[@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...

[@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

[@Chelz12]

Nothing like 90s bass

[@willr8764]

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

[@MSS47Ag]

This song sounds like it’s from 1991 and 3091 at the same time. That’s why I love Trip Hop so F* much❤❤❤

[@blueblade455]

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

[@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

[@LonnieLawless]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@ochjoenge]

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

[@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

[@amjh4lah809]

CHOON. What an album ❤

[@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

[@The_only_one33]

Probably the best track of one of the best albums ever made.

[@smiauu]

Never ever have a beat had this much impact on me

[@rudtv]

Easily one of the greatest songs of all time

[@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.

[@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

[@lukasz_majewski]

Lovely times for me.

[@Colladibassa]

From 6:44... this must feel like dying peacefully. After listening to this for so many years I still can't grasp the genius behind this. It must come straight from their souls. Like a blueprint of pure connection. And how cool to finally meet people who are also blown away by this.

[@donnaleon7473]

Some good music still doesn't change.

[@Its_Renee_]

0:25 is haunting yet beautiful and gives me goosebumps at the same time..!!

[@geraudonly6229]

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

[@andrewleyden2752]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@MrBjnelson]

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

[@JimmyJaxJellyStax]

2:09 still gives me evocative chills down my spine

[@mitchellhess]

This . Its a found art explosion compressed into a diamond. Remembrances brought to fruition. This goes well with other midnight things. Great title. It brings into focus something more precious than crickets and moonlight. And an ambulance wail and a coyote chorus just adds to it , Thanks brother for having the album when it came out. RIP mom

[@LegendaryMuffins]

Every time I'm having a bad day, this song sets me right. Makes me take a moment to just be in the moment and let everything else melt away.

[@tiredjay3000]

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

[@tiredjay3000]

@@HDReMaster I beg your pardon?

[@HDReMaster]

@@tiredjay3000 you are depression

[@nevergiveup9321]

Beautiful

[@whazup15]

This song is the reason why I smoke crack.

[@LOADINGNEO]

Xavier Murphy so this song is bad

[@whazup15]

spas†ik desas†er No, I love this song.

[@LOADINGNEO]

Xavier Murphy crack sux m8

[@whazup15]

spas†ik desas†er Don't knock it till you try it.

[@LOADINGNEO]

Xavier Murphy i dont wanna try it because its dangerous as fuck .

[@Carlitonsp1]

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

[@valentinobanani2534]

This track is on a whole other level, never heard anything that comes even close to this. It represents a place for me when life has really tested you the fullest extent, the loss of a loved one, extreme sense of loneliness feeling jaded worn out. You're somewhere between living and dying. It's very late at night, you light the spliff and you put this track on. It's dark you're on a balcony with a view of the city lights. You're by yourself, reminiscing, taking it all in.

[@D.A.V.E.TheDrummer]

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

[@TheJapanfan]

A funeral song for the amazing music of the second half of the 20th Century

[@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

[@cremetangerine82]

This song reduces me to tears.

[@jaymondkreek854]

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

[@huli777]

Love listening to this song when burning the midnight oil

[@darkkiss7247]

Good late night music.

[@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.

[@Kefir-fw2qf]

Not that i am planning to die. But as a non religious person i told my friends to play it on my funeral. It will be a good farewell to this world.

[@Tendomcgoobin]

One of the greatest driving songs of all time.

[@RocketPropelledWombat]

First time I heard this I bought the album not knowing what I was buying, got baked, stuck it in the car CD player on the drive home from town. Can confirm.

[@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.

[@MrPavalava]

Song reminds me visiting my friend in Berkeley hills that became a drug addict, going up to the library at the highest floor of the college to overlook how the value of everything gets less and less traveling closer to the water. Miss ya jonjon420

[@AnthonyOrsino]

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever created

[@BritBrat83]

Yes!!! 🤘💜

[@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.

[@Patrick11223]

I used to listen to this every night going to sleep in college around 2002. If you listen to the verse closely that repeats “Midnight, Midnight, Midnight..” it sounds like “Time for bed, Time for bed, time for bed,” still trips me out every time I hear it. Now, now, now, now, now, now, now approaching..

[@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.

[@jamesvega6813]

It's amazing how there are so little few songs like this that are so extremely simple... But yet so fucking powerful

[@tschneids3616]

This is pure genius.. I love this album.. we don't hear stuff like this anymore. Great road trip music, drove across the country to this..

[@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.*

[@hasta8606]

В сердцах навсегда...

[@plrdbear]

Кто?

[@iktomi5149]

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

[@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!

[@akuxeru]

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

[@2thumbs12]

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

[@madfishone]

The godfather of instrumental hip hop

[@JacobAndJamal]

I was a HS freshman in 1996, DJ Shadow and a handful of other DJs and Artist introduced me into various disciplines of hip hop, trip hop, DJ culture and electronic music. It was awesome time discovering new music, not in the mainstream without the internet.

[@kee04O]

the god of sample

[@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.

[@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