Reconstructed: Best Of Dj Shadow

My DH asked for this CD on his Xmas gift list, so I got it for him. He says that it is his favorite album -- EVER -- and that every time he listens to it, he hears some new nuance while revisiting old favorites. The tracks are supple, inventive, and extraordinarily well done. It's the kind of music that if you don't know what's playing you want to know who it is right now so that you can immediately rush out and get it.

Great album!

Great good album, all songs are good images of his carreer. I would add some artwork, but its ok, it just minimalistic style.

As a DJ Shadow fan I gotta say that Entroducing and The Private Press changed my idea of what instrumental "hip hop" could be, up until that time the closet thing I'd heard to anything like those albums was Scratchology and maybe stuff like the early 93 'Til Infinity (LP Version), and of course Madlib (Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes,Beat Konducta Vol. 3 & 4: In India) and J Dilla Donuts who are in a category of their own, but listening to some of the newer songs on reconstructed gives me a feeling of "yea they sound good" but don't really move me, the only exception would be "High Noon" . Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not one of those every album has to sound exactly like Entroducing people, and every artist has to explore and grow (or should at least), but there was something about the way the songs complemented each other on Entroducing and the Private Press that keeps them on my car's mp3 play list to this day, which as other people have said, and also in my opinion is kind of missing here, but its still a good cool out album....BTW: I thought the DJ Shadow's Infamous South Beach set was amazing, from which he got removed off the stage because he combined Hip Hop, with everything from dub, electronica, house, and the kitchen sink, and the crowd at the club just wasn't ready for it, you can listen to it on his (if I can link it) sound cloud page (or sound + those fluffy things in the air page),and there are some other musical gold nuggets there as well.

The album gets better each time I listen to it. I bought this album for my husband and my neice.

Super awesome!

It's a great retrospective of Shadow's career up to this point. I really like the new songs. They add a different dimension to Endtroducing and Private Press. Nothing will ever replace those 2 albums in my mind however I really like the new direction of his songs as an additive to those 2 classics. I pull this collection out all the time and just let it play.

DJ Shadow is considered a key figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and this CD captures a good sampling of his works. It's a great, mellow CD. He is one of my favorites.