Preemptive Strike (album)

Preemptive Strike
Compilation album by DJ Shadow
Released January 13, 1998
Recorded 1991–1997
Genre
Length 61:11
Label Mo'Wax
Producer DJ Shadow
DJ Shadow chronology
Endtroducing.....
(1996)		 Preemptive Strike
(1998)		 The Private Press
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau [2]
Entertainment WeeklyB [3]
Pitchfork Media8.4/10 [4]
Rolling Stone [5]
Sputnikmusic [6]
Almost Cool[7]

Preemptive Strike is the first compilation album by the American hip hop producer DJ Shadow, released on January 13, 1998 by Mo'Wax Recordings. The album contains singles by Shadow released by the Mo'Wax label between 1991 and 1997.

Personnel

Track listing

  1. "Strike 1" – 0:26
  2. "In/Flux" – 12:12
  3. "Hindsight" – 6:52
  4. "Strike 2" – 0:15
  5. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)" – 13:51
  6. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)" – 5:12
  7. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" – 7:12
  8. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)" – 6:21
  9. "Strike 3 (And I'm Out)" – 0:26
  10. "High Noon" – 3:57
  11. "Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)" – 4:26

Additional releases

When Preemptive Strike was first released, it included a bonus track on a second disc, which featured DJ Q-Bert in a megamix titled "Camel Bobsled Race (DJ Shadow Megamix)".

Preemptive Strike was also released in Japan under the Toy's Factory label (catalog number: TFCK-87954), and limited to only 2,000 copies worldwide. It included two bonus tracks not released on the U.S. version, "The Number Song (Cut Chemist Remix)" and a remix of Depeche Mode's "Painkiller (Kill The Pain Mix)." It also had a completely different packaging and was dedicated to the memory of Paul Ballenger .

On the vinyl release, "Strike 1," "Strike 2," and "Strike 3," were removed, leaving the album with

  1. "In/Flux"
  2. "Hindsight"
  3. "High Noon"
  4. "Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)"
  5. "What Does Your Soul Look Like" (Part 2)"
  6. "What Does Your Soul Look Like" (Part 3)"
  7. "What Does Your Soul Look Like" (Part 4)"
  8. "What Does Your Soul Look Like" (Part 1)"

Samples

In/Flux

Hindsight

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)

High Noon

Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)

References

  1. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "DJ Shadow: Preemptive Strike > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
  2. ↑ http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=DJ+Shadow
  3. ↑ 1/16/97, p.70
  4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20081020213253/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17067-preemptive-strike
  5. ↑ Ratliff, Ben (6 January 1998). "DJ Shadow: Preemptive Strike". Rolling Stone (778). Archived from the original on 12 March 2007.
  6. ↑ http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/6530/DJ-Shadow-Preemptive-Strike/
  7. ↑ http://www.almostcool.org/mr/316/
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