Introducing is a talented, Oxford-based nine-piece band with a very specific goal. Every show they perform is essentially the same. With the exception of slight variations in their encores, the set never changes. Their mission? To perform DJ Shadow’s first LP, “Endtroducing”, in its entirety, from start to finish.

This kind of stuff fascinates me. DJ Shadow’s record, of course, is created from samples (which may, in turn, have been created from other samples). This band wants to dive through all of those layers of sampling to the original instruments and then combine them together into one physical space. But, one major issue is that the “original instruments” are not the point of DJ Shadow’s album; he doesn’t use samples just because he can’t play instruments and they’re a useful way to collect stuff together. The feeling of the various samples, from the recording, mastering, and all that jazz, is not just in the instruments.

Also, I wonder what that laptop is doing in there. Do MacBooks finally count as “real” instruments now?

(via More Intelligent Life)