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| Released | 1996 | |||
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| Label | Mo' Wax | |||
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| Producer(s) | DJ Shadow | |||
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"Stem" is a song by DJ Shadow from his 1996 debut studio album, Endtroducing..... . The song reached number 9 on the Irish Singles Chart, DJ Shadow's only top 10 hit to date.
The album version of the song combines "Stem" with "Long Stem".
Like all other tracks on the album, "Stem"/"Long Stem" makes heavy use of sampling. Below are among the samples used for the track:
The version of 'Stem' on the 7" version contains dialogue samples from the Michael Mann film 'Heat' (1995).
It has been featured in several films and on television, including:
Stem or STEM may refer to:
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