DJ Shadow marks 30 years of Endtroducing..... with a complete performance of the album, reimagined for the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jules Buckley.
DJ Shadow, whose 1996 debut Endtroducing….. was built from vinyl samples, performs it in full with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre on Friday 18 December 2026. Jules Buckley conducts.
Born Joshua Davis in 1972, he began making music from samples on a four-track recorder at school in Davis, California. He started out as a DJ on KDVS, the campus radio station of the University of California there.
His early singles came out on Mo’ Wax, the London label run by James Lavelle. He made Endtroducing….. over two years on an Akai MPC60 sampler, and Mo’ Wax released it on 16 September 1996.
Britain took to the record first. It reached the top 20 of the UK albums chart and went gold here, and its singles “Midnight in a Perfect World” and “Stem” both charted.
This one-off concert marks the album’s 30th anniversary and reimagines it for orchestra. The BBC Symphony Orchestra produces the evening, and the BBC Symphony Chorus sings with it under Buckley.