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History moves damn fast. So fast, that if a week is indeed a long time
in politics, then it's an ice age in dance music, where genres subdivide
into ever-mutating micro genres quicker than you can say 'white label.'
By its very definition, the cutting edge has a poor relationship with
longevity - which makes the widespread acknowledgement and continuing
influence of 'cinematic hip hop' as a contemporary genre in its own
right all the more remarkable.
In 1996, DJ Shadow (born Josh Davis) dropped his debut album,
Endtroducing. . . and thus defined a whole new style of hip hop. A
million miles away from the ..
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