Performer: Shadow
Genre: Hip hop / Jazz / Funk / Soul / Non Music / Pop / Stage & Screen
Album: Hip Hop Reconstruction From The Ground Up
Released: 1991
Style: Turntablism, Cut-up/DJ, Conscious, Free Funk, Instrumental, Spoken Word, Afrobeat, Funk, Psychedelic, Political
MP3 version ZIP size: 1272 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1850 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1413 mb
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 845
Other Formats: AAC AA MOD MP2 AIFF AHX DXD

Tracklist Hide Credits

1st Floor
A0	Escape From Subterrania (Intro) Producer, Arranged By – Shadow*	0:48
A1	Let The Remix Hit 'Em Music By, Arranged By [Music] – Shadow*Vocals, Producer [Vocals], Arranged By [Vocals] – Rakim	2:18
A2	Laying The Foundation (Reconstruction #1) DJ Mix [Uncredited] – Shadow*Edited By [Paris Excerpt] – Shadow*Producer [Extra Production], Arranged By [Arrangement] – Shadow*Turntables [Cross-Fade Mutilation] – Shadow*	16:41
A3	Gone In 60 Seconds Producer, Arranged By – Shadow*	1:10
A4	The Final Breakdown Producer, Arranged By – Shadow*	4:04
A5	Laying The Foundation (Reconstruction #3) DJ Mix [Uncredited] – Shadow*Producer [Extra Production], Arranged By [Arrangement] – Shadow*	7:43
Sub-Level: Breakdown Revisited
A6	Make It Critical Producer [Production], Arranged By [Arrangement], Turntables [Cross-Fade Terrorism] – Shadow*	2:02
A7	Listen Up! (Reconstruction #4) DJ Mix [Uncredited] – Shadow*Producer [Extra Production], Arranged By [Arrangement] – Shadow*	11:27
2nd Floor
B0	Testament To A Master Producer, Arranged By – Jimi HendrixTurntables [Cross-Fade Mutilation] – Shadow*	0:49
B1	The Raw Fusion Of Hip And Hop Producer – Shadow*	2:32
B2	From The Ruines Of Alexandria Producer – Shadow*	2:38
B3	Wordz Of Wizdom (Shadow Eclipse Mix) Producer [Original Track] – 3rd Bass, Sam SeverRemix – Shadow, Ze Raptor Of Hip-Hop*	7:46
B4	Laying The Foundation (Reconstruction #2) DJ Mix [Uncredited] – Shadow*Producer [Extra Production], Arranged By [Arrangement] – Shadow*	13:56
B5	Life On The Line Producer, Arranged By – Shadow*	2:44
B6	Shadow's Theme Producer, Arranged By – Shadow*	3:09
B7	The Mack Is Back Producer, Arranged By – Shadow*	2:37
B7½	The Shadow Knows (Reality Check) Producer, Arranged By – Shadow*	4:47
B8	The Raw Fusion Of A Hip Hop Instrumental Producer, Arranged By – Shadow*	2:10

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – The Chop Shop
• Recorded At – The Parlour Of Mystery

Credits

• Artwork, Typography [Uncredited] – The 8th Wonder
• Presenter – Bigger Than Life Productions

Notes

This is the first ever Shadow release, about 20 copies were recorded and sent to various fanzine and underground magazines, the one that got him a column in the June edition of The Source (Unsigned Hype, coordinated by Matty C ). Initial copies were sent with a tracklist and a flyer, and recorded on a TDK D90 cassette. Contact address is written inside the hand-illustrated j-card. Shadow's loops were done on a Yamaha MT-100 4-track in the same vain as the The 4-Track Era Collection (1990-1992), produced during the same period of time.

There's no timings on release, retrieved from splitting audio tracks on a computer.

A1 is similar to track 1 - Let The Rhythm Hit Em (DJ Shadow Remix), A2 is similar to track 2 - Best Of The Megamixes (Part 1), A5 is similar to track 10 - Best Of The Megamixes (Part 3), B3 is similar to track 11 by 3rd Bass - Wordz Of Wisdom (DJ Shadow Remix), B4 is similar to track 5 - Best Of The Megamixes (Part 2) to be found on The 4-Track Era (Volume 2: Best Of The Remixes And Megamixes (1990-1992)).
A6 is the same as track 5 - Make It Critical, B4 is similar to track 8 - Genesis Beat, but B6 is a complete different track compared to track 2 - DJ Shadow's Theme (Original Version) which sounds in all point like B7! to be found on The 4-Track Era (Volume 3: Best Of The Original Productions (1990-1992)).
All other tracks are not to be found anywhere else.

Stated on tracklist:
A2 Includes tracks by (..., Brand Nubian, Just-Ice, Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, ..., Nile Kings, The Wild Boyz, Paris [Edits By Shadow], Red Black & Green).
A4 Special Thanks to The Medicine Man.
A5a Includes tracks by (T La Rock, ..., Terminator X).
A7 Includes tracks by (A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Phase N' Rhythm, Main Source, Brand Nubian, The Next School And Daddy-O, Gang Starr, The 45 King, Two Kings In A Cipher).
B4 Includes tracks of (..., Boogie Down Productions, Geto Boys, N.W.A., 3rd Bass, Young Black Teenagers, MC ... ..., Terminator X, Paris, ...).
B8 is stated as a Bonus track and is the instrumental version of B1.

All tracks recorded at The Chop Shop, except B1 & B2 recorded in The Parlor Of Mystery.

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