 Jon Wiederhorn of Entertainment Weekly likened Endtroducing ..... to " a surreal film soundtrack on which jazz , classical , and jungle fragments are artfully blended with turntable tricks and dialogue snippets " and commended that it " takes hip @-@ hop into the next dimension " , while Simon Williams of NME called DJ Shadow " both slyly knowing and brilliantly naive , fusing the dramatic and the deranged to his own sweet end . " Sia Michel of Spin said that the album " practically folds you into its symphonic fantasia , the coming @-@ of @-@ age story of a 24 @-@ year @-@ old bunk @-@ bed dreamer . " Tony Green of JazzTimes commended DJ Shadow 's " unerring ear for motif and texture " . Jon Wiederhorn of Q magazine also responded favorably , writing : " Shadow 's brief is to develop a totally sample @-@ based idiom , weaving a cinematically broad spectrum so deftly layered that the sampling @-@ is @-@ stealing argument falls flat . " 
