Cover art for Building Steam With a Grain of Salt by DJ Shadow

Building Steam With a Grain of Salt

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Nov. 19, 19961 viewer38.4K views

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Genius Annotation

This is the first full song on DJ Shadow’s critically acclaimed, Endtroducing…
This song starts off with George Marsh speaking on music and how it shaped his life. Shadow uses this to speak on the power of music. This song has a very powerful and other-worldly feel to it, like most of the album.

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Whose voice is speaking the lines in the "What makes cancer tenacious" segment?
Genius Answer

These lines are sampled from a 1969 reading called “Planetary Motivations (Cancer)”
by composer Mort Garson. The track appears on the album, Cancer, which is part of the twelve volume Signs of the Zodiac collection.

The sample can be heard from 0:44

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