Preemptive Strike is a retrospective compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of DJ Shadow

DJ Shadow

Joshua Paul Davis better known as DJ Shadow is an American music producer, DJ and songwriter. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental hip hop and first gained notice with the release of his highly acclaimed debut album Endtroducing....., which was constructed...

's singles released on the UK record label Mo'Wax between 1991-1998.

Track listing

1. "Strike 1" – 0:26
2. "In/Flux" – 12:12
3. "Hindsight" – 6:52
4. "Strike 2" – 0:15
5. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)" – 13:51
6. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)" – 5:12
7. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" – 7:12
8. "What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)" – 6:21
9. "Strike 3 (And I'm Out)" – 0:26
10. "High Noon" – 3:57
11. "Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)" – 4:26

Additional releases

When Preemptive Strike was first released, it included a bonus track on a second disc, which featured DJ Q-Bert in a megamix titled "Camel Bobsled Race (DJ Shadow Megamix)

Camel Bobsled Race

Camel Bobsled Race is the name of a megamix of DJ Shadow's music. It contains seven live tracks in a continuous DJ mix by DJ Q-Bert of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz. It was released on vinyl and CD in 1997...

".

Preemptive Strike was also released in Japan under the Toy's Factory

Toy's Factory

is a Japanese record label founded in 1990 as a VAP subsidiary, based in Japan. It has since become an independent company.-Sub-Labels:* bellissima!* Carnage* Deep Blue* Idyllic* Kimi* Meme Tokyo* -Artists:*Aobozu*Armageddon*Bump of Chicken...

 label (catalog number: TFCK-87954), and limited to only 2,000 copies worldwide. It included two bonus tracks not released on the U.S. version, "The Number Song (Cut Chemist

Cut Chemist

Lucas MacFadden , better known as Cut Chemist, is an American DJ and record producer. He is a former member of the funk Latin band Ozomatli, and of hip hop group Jurassic 5...

 Remix)" and a remix of Depeche Mode's

Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

 "Painkiller (Kill The Pain Mix)." It also had a completely different packaging and was dedicated to the memory of Paul Ballenger http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=363297.

On the vinyl release, "Strike 1," "Strike 2," and "Strike 3," were removed, leaving the album with

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

Samples

In/Flux

• "Listen" and "Part-e,s" by The Watts Prophets
  The Watts Prophets
  The Watts Prophets are a group of musicians and poets from Watts, Los Angeles, California. Like their contemporaries, The Last Poets, the group combined elements of jazz music and spoken word performance, making the trio one that is often seen as a forerunner of contemporary hip hop music...
  
  
• "Energy" and "Bad Tune" by Earth, Wind & Fire
  Earth, Wind & Fire
  Earth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of...
  
  
• "Footprints" by A Tribe Called Quest
  A Tribe Called Quest
  A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip hop group, formed in 1985, and is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but rejoined in 2006...
  
  
• "Number One" by Jimmy Smith
  Jimmy Smith (musician)
  Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B-3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument...
  
  
• "Carry On Brother" and "Turbulence" by Eddie Harris
  Eddie Harris
  Eddie Harris was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ...
  
  
• "Never Can Say Goodbye" by David T. Walker
  David T. Walker
  David T. Walker is an American guitarist born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued over twelve albums in his own name.-Career:...
  
  
• "Howling For Judy" by Jeremy Steig
  Jeremy Steig
  -Biography:Steig is the son of New Yorker cartoonist William Steig,At age 19 Steig was involved in a motorcycle accident which left him paralyzed on one side...
  
  
• "Twinkles" by Chase
  Chase (band)
  The band Chase was created in 1970 by Bill Chase, Ted Piercefield, Alan Ware, and Jerry Van Blair, all veteran jazz trumpeters who were also adept at vocals and arranging. They were backed up by a rhythm section consisting of Phil Porter on keyboards, Angel South on guitar, Dennis Johnson on bass,...
  
  
• "Good Old Music" by Funkadelic
  Funkadelic
  Funkadelic was an American band most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...
  
  
• "Discovery" by Alan Ross
  Alan Ross
  Alan John Ross, , was a British poet, writer and editor. He was born in Calcutta, India, where he spent the first seven years of his life...
  
  
• "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac" by Dizzy Gillespie
  Dizzy Gillespie
  John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
  
  
• "Music Man" by Abel
• "New York City: The Bitter End" by Franklin Ajaye
• "Chippin" by Melvin Van Peebles
  Melvin Van Peebles
  Melvin "Block" Van Peebles is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer.He is most famous for creating the acclaimed film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which heralded a new era of African American focused films...
  
  
• "The Loud Minority" by Frank Foster
  Frank Foster (musician)
  Frank Foster was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer. Foster collaborated frequently with Count Basie and worked as a bandleader from the early 1950s.-Biography:...
  
  
• "De System" by Mutabaruka
  Mutabaruka
  Mutabaruka is a dub poet. His name comes from the Rwandan language and translates as "one who is always victorious". He lives in Potosi District, St. James with his significant other, Yvonne, and their two childern. Mutabaruka continues to perform and write poems on every issue known to man...
  
  
• "Social Narcotics" by Bama The Village Poet
• "Souled Out" by James Wesley Jackson

Hindsight

• "The Landlord" by Al Kooper
  Al Kooper
  Al Kooper is an American songwriter, record producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears , providing studio support for Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965, and also bringing together guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills to...
  
  
• "We Live in Brooklyn Baby" and "He's a Superstar" by Roy Ayers
  Roy Ayers
  Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk .- Biography :Ayers...
  
  
• "Mahdi (The Expected One)" by Tower of Power
  Tower of Power
  Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing for over 43 years. They are best known for their funky soul sound highlighted by a powerful horn section...
  
  
• "Barnes Shoots Elias" from the soundtrack to "Platoon
  Platoon (film)
  Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....
  
  " by Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
  Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
  The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is a Canadian orchestra performing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Over 240,000 people attend its live performances each year. It was founded in 1930 and plays in 12 venues. Its home is the Orpheum theatre. With an annual operating budget of $9.5 million, it is the...
  
  
• "Hot Rock Soundtrack" by Quincy Jones
  Quincy Jones
  Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
  
  
• Spoken words from the movie Star Wars
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 American epic space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the...
  
  

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 2)

• "Edge of Time" by The Growing Concern
• "War of the Gods" by Billy Paul
  Billy Paul
  Billy Paul is a Grammy Award winning American soul singer, most known for his 1972 number-one single, "Me and Mrs. Jones" as well as the 1973 album and single "War of the Gods" which blends his more conventional pop, soul and funk styles with electronic and psychedelic influences...
  
  
• "Girl on the Moon" by Foreigner
  Foreigner (band)
  Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm...
  
  
• "Take Three and C" by Drum Session
• "Webb of Jim Collage (MacArthur Park/Yard Went On Forever)" by Mystic Moods
• "The Yard Went on Forever" by Richard Harris
• Spoken words from the movie Brainstorm
  Brainstorm (1983 film)
  Brainstorm is a 1983 science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull and starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood...
  
  
• Spoken words from the movie Johnny Got His Gun
  Johnny Got His Gun
  Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumboand published by J. B. Lippincott company.-Plot:...
  
  
• Spoken words and sound effects from George Lucas' movie THX 1138
  THX 1138
  THX 1138 is a 1971 science fiction film directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut. The film is based on a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch...
  
  

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3)

• "Twin City Prayer" by Hollins and Starr
• "It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps
  Skull Snaps
  Skull Snaps was a funk group that released one eponymous album on the small GSF label in 1973 before disappearing. It was, in fact, the group originally known as the Diplomats, which released numerous singles between 1963 and 1970 with some success....
  
  
• Spoken words by William Hurt
  William Hurt
  William McGill Hurt is an American stage and film actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School, and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States , for which he received a Golden Globe nomination...
  
   from the movie Altered States
  Altered States
  Altered States is a 1980 American science fiction-horror film adaptation of a novel by the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. It was the only novel that Chayefsky ever wrote, as well as his final film. Both the novel and the film are based on John C...
  
  

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)

• "The Vision and the Voice Part 1 - The Vision" by Flying Island
• Spoken words by Billy Zane
  Billy Zane
  William George "Billy" Zane, Jr. is an American actor, producer and director. He is probably best known for his roles as Caledon Hockley in Titanic, The Phantom from The Phantom, John Wheeler in Twin Peaks and Mr...
  
   from the movie Dead Calm
  Dead Calm (film)
  Dead Calm is a 1989 thriller film starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. It was based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Williams...
  
  
• "Monica" by The People's People
• "Numbers" by Kraftwerk
  Kraftwerk
  Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...
  
  

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1)

• "The Voice Of The Saxophone" by Heath Brothers
  Heath Brothers
  The Heath Brothers was an American jazz group, formed in 1975 by the brothers Jimmy , Percy , and Albert "Tootie" Heath ; and pianist Stanley Cowell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tony Purrone and Jimmy's son Mtume joined the group later...
  
  
• "Joe Splivingates" by David Young
  David Young
  -Music:*David Young , American instrumentalist*Dave Young , Canadian rock musician*David J. Young, American musician/composer-Science:*David Allan Young , American entomologist*David M. Young, Jr...
  
  
• "All Our Love" by Shawn Phillips
  Shawn Phillips
  Shawn Phillips is a folk-rock musician, primarily influential in the 1960s and 1970s.Phillips has recorded twenty albums and worked with musicians including Donovan, Paul Buckmaster, J. Peter Robinson, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bernie Taupin, and many others...
  
  
• "Edge Of Time" by The Growing Concern
• Spoken words by William Hurt
  William Hurt
  William McGill Hurt is an American stage and film actor. He received his acting training at the Juilliard School, and began acting on stage in the 1970s. Hurt made his film debut as a troubled scientist in the science-fiction feature Altered States , for which he received a Golden Globe nomination...
  
   from the movie Altered States
  Altered States
  Altered States is a 1980 American science fiction-horror film adaptation of a novel by the same name by playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. It was the only novel that Chayefsky ever wrote, as well as his final film. Both the novel and the film are based on John C...
  
  

High Noon

• "The Answer Is No" by Giant Crab
• "Flashing" and "Day Tripper" by Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
  
  
• "Airborne" by Michael Garrison
  Michael Garrison (musician)
  Michael Garrison was a synthesist from Oregon, USA.While studying music at the University of Idaho, he started to form the basis for his first release on his own label, Windspell Records, later known as Garrisongs Music...
  
  

Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)

• "Tears" by Giorgio
  Giorgio Moroder
  Hansjörg "Giorgio" Moroder is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. When in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records...
  
  
• "Judy Goes on Holiday" by Supersister
  Supersister
  Supersister was a Dutch band from The Hague, Netherlands, playing progressive rock rangingfrom jazz to pop. The most predominant band members were Robert Jan Stips , Sacha van Geest , Marco Vrolijk and Ron van Eck ....
  
  
• "Change le Beat" by B-Side and Fab Five Freddy
  Fab Five Freddy
  Fred Brathwaite , more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American Hip hop historian, Hip hop pioneer and former graffiti artist...