In 1996 DJ Shadow released the first album comprised entirely of samples. The album was a critical success and increased the visibility of sampling as an art form, rather than a lazy way to make new music. One of the major reasons for this was Shadow's choice of samples - they tended to come from obscure LPs rather than popular ones, so most people had never heard any of them in their unsampled form. The coherency of the songs is amazing, its hard to believe that all of these individual samples are then molded into an almost orchestral type score, but hearing is believing.
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