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DJ Shadow - “Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt”
Grandiose. Epic. Anthemic. Gigantic. These words hardly describe the downbeat for this Godfatherly trip/hop and ambient composition. It is truly bigger than that. As soon as I hear it, I have the strange desire to stab my hands and arms into soft earth and dig. Not so much fast or out of control, but deep, deliberately and with great care. I dig and dig, and as I move past the mantle of our planet the song begins to engulf me. At some point around 4 minutes, there is no Earth, no me, and no DJ Shadow. There’s just the steam.