DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike (Remastered)

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Remastered Reissue
Release Date Dec 11, 2026
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  • Label Pias America
  • Format 2LP
  • Format details Remastered Reissue
  • Media 2 x Vinyl
  • Album release date Jan 27, 1998
  • This pressing Dec 11, 2026
  • Region US
  • Genres Hip Hop
  • UPC 5400863207762
Releases Dec 11, 2026

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Remastered Double LP With New Sleeve Art

Preemptive Strike gathered the singles and non-album tracks DJ Shadow made for Mo' Wax between 1993 and 1997 and put them out in America for the first time. The note printed in the 1998 gatefold is his own: "All songs contained on this album are previously released by Mo Wax in England. Until now, the only way to hear them was by obtaining import copies."

That first US pressing was a double album on Mo' Wax and FFRR, released on January 27, 1998, and the sticker on the shrinkwrap billed High Noon as a new single. In/Flux, the 1993 twelve-inch that opened his account with the label, runs a little over twelve minutes; Organ Donor appears in its Extended Overhaul form; and the four parts of What Does Your Soul Look Like close the record.

The label's notes for this edition describe a remaster cut at Abbey Road Studios and a new sleeve drawing on the science-fiction illustrator Frank R. Paul. The jacket is not the one the 1998 pressing carried.

Josh Davis went back to the same body of work for The Mo' Wax Singles, 1993-1997, an eight-record box half-speed remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road, which presents the singles one by one with their original B-sides. Writing about that set, he noted that several of these songs have been heard mainly as part of the Preemptive Strike compilation.

Tracklist

  1. In/Flux
  2. Hindsight
  3. High Noon
  4. Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)
  5. What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 2
  6. What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 3
  7. What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 4
  8. What Does Your Soul Look Like, Pt. 1

Complete the Collection

Three DJ Shadow titles at Evergreen Vinyl, this one included: Endtroducing....., We Might As Well Be Strangers.

UPC: 5400863207762
Label: Pias America
Release Date: 12.11.26
Format: Vinyl