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Product details

  • Vinyl (15 Jun 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set, Single, Collector's Edition, DTS Surround Sound, DualDisc, Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered, Ringle, SACD, Soundtrack, Import
  • Label: Import Music Services
  • ASIN: B000005DQT
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 177,044 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    Popular in these categories:

    #48 in  Music > Hip-Hop & Rap > Turntablists
    #87 in  Music > Dance & Electronic > Trip Hop
    #90 in  Music > Hip-Hop & Rap > Experimental

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Track Listings

1. Strike 1
2. Influx
3. Hindsight
4. Strike 2
5. What Does Your Soul Look Like
6. What Does Your Soul Look Like
7. What Does Your Soul Look Like
8. What Does Your Soul Look Like
9. Strike Three (And I'm Out)
10. High Noon
11. Groan Donor

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
This set compiles much of DJ Shadow's pre-major label material in one convenient package in an attempt to foil bootleggers and bring new fans up-to-date in the curriculum. The results are naturally varied, but all point to a marvellous evolution of talent. The collection is kept together primarily by its propensity for jazzy beats and psychedelic loops. Shadow (né Josh Davis) moves through everything from old school funk ("In/Flux") to grungy 1960s-style guitar rave-ups ("High Noon"). The centrepiece of the set, however, is a four-part composition called "What Does Your Soul Look Like", which is likely to be the first ever entirely sample-driven rock opera. It's a brilliant piece of work, laced with intriguing sounds, sound bites, and a detectable set of motion. It is also quite possibly better than anything on the critically -acclaimed Entroducing. --Aidin Vaziri

CD Description
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 liftthe 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.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Buy Entroducing and Private Press first., 4 Nov 2005
This review is from: Preemptive Strike (Audio CD)
Im pretty new to DJ Shadow, though i had quite thoroughly listened to Endtroducing and Private Press before obtaining this. Personally i found the centerpiece "What does your soul look like" a little dull, a fleshed out version of "What does your soul look like, pt4." on Endtroducing.
However, everything else is hugely entertaining, the highlights for me being the unforgettable "Organ Donor" and the sublime "High Noon"

My advice however is: Buy Entroducing and Private Press first.

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17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Great Tracks but we've been given this before!, 23 Jan 2002
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This review is from: Preemptive Strike (Audio CD)
For those of you who don't already have Endtroducing, stop now, click off this page and buy that now.

For those of you who are still here I can tell you now this album is more shadow, which is a VERY good thing - however, I personally feel just a touch "fobbed off" by this release - you ownly really get 5 new tracks (Two parts of "What does your soul look like" are simply mirrored from Endtroducing) and the remix of Organ Donor is nothing too new and groundbreaking. However, there are three tracks on this album that are up there with his best - High Noon, an upbeat guitar driven track and What does your Soul look like parts 2 & 3 are nothing short of amazing...

Worth it for these three tracks alone but shurley this is an EP relase rather than a full album?

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent Dj Shadow release., 13 Sep 2001
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This review is from: Preemptive Strike (Audio CD)
Though more of a subtle and moody album, and as such less commercial that Dj SHadow's first album proper, this compendium of vinyl releases is utterly indespensible to a fan. The songs meander and rely more on phrases evolving than on making the trip-hop tunes of 'Entroducing', but it's more emotional and, you suspect, more honest than that ever was. If you thought 'What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)' on 'Endroducing' was good, wait until you hear all of it. The only downer if the lack of the 'High Noon' b-side 'Devil's Advocate' and the other lost Dj Shadow gem 'Third Decade, Our Move', but these would probably throw the mood out anyway. All in all an excellent album from one of the greatest musical minds of the past ten years.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A perfection in music
A short time ago, one of my housemates and myself were discussing Moby as an artist that produced music that let you totally relax. Read more
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