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You guys have inspired me to dig a little deeper with my picks and try to unearth some gems that people may never have heard and might want to pick up. Was all set to go with what would have been super obvious choices for my first handful of picks, but screw that!

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The Four Elements select with their 1st round pick, in the 1994-1996 category:

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...

Endtroducing..... is structured completely out of sampled elements, including hip hop, jazz, funk, psychedelia, old television shows, interviews and percussion tracks. The entirety of the album was composed on an MPC60, a machine which Shadow would later pass on to Chief Xcel. The album has been cited in Guinness World Records as being the first album created entirely from sampled sources.

NPR included Endtroducing..... in its list of the top 300 American songs and albums of the 20th century,[2] and Spin placed the album at number 69 in its list of the 100 greatest albums between 1985 and 2005 in June 2005.[3] In 2006, the album was chosen by TIME as one of the 100 best albums of all time.

Tracklisting:

1. "Best Foot Forward" – 0:47
2. "Building Steam With a Grain of Salt" – 6:39
3. "The Number Song" – 4:34
4. "Changeling" – 7:16
   • "Transmission 1" - 0:35
5. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" – 5:02
6. " " – 0:25
7. "Stem/Long Stem" – 7:47
   • "Transmission 2" - 1:29
8. "Mutual Slump" – 4:00
9. "Organ Donor" – 1:57
10. "Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96" – 0:44
11. "Midnight in a Perfect World" – 4:58
12. "Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain" – 9:21
13. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1 - Blue Sky Revisit)" – 6:17
    • "Transmission 3" - 1:11

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Had some more written about this classic album, but my browser crashed and I lost it. Will add to it later.