What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective

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What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective
by Steinski
from Illegal Art

Features:

• Limited Edition

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Outstanding Old School Hip-Hop
  Great old school mixes from the early 80's breakdance scene that at one time was hard to find. It's a greatest hits of sorts of every good breakbeat that was ever used by any and all hip hop artists from the 80's until the present day.

• Before Shadow, way before Girl Talk...
  Long before label mate Girl Talk became known as the King of Mashup, hell, even before M/A/R/R/S sliced together the inimitable "Pump Up The Volume", two advertising dudes named Steve "Steinski" Stein and Douglas "Double Dee" Di Franco put together a mix of the most used hip-hop breaks for a contest, one judged by the likes of Afrika Bambaataa. They won, and thus was born the first in their series of "The Lessons" (Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow would later recreate these live using the original vinyl). This... more info

• What it means
  "Hey, I recognize that sample from..." If you're into the whole cut-up and dub genre of music, you've probably heard Steinski for years. Maybe it was a Steinski cut, maybe it was Steinski mixed into someone else's work. Many of the actual cuts on this disk floated up to the surface over the years, but saw limited or no release. Now, amazingly, they have a wide release to the masses--what magic happened to clear all of the samples and material is unknown. Any fan will long for more, but this is a great... more info

• Be an outlaw, buy this disk!
  Oh what a lovely collection. Like taking a dictionary to a desert island because it has all the classics in it, just out of order, this is a true desert island disk. I keep expecting the RIAA to break my car window and bust me for the uncleared samples. But it would be worth it.
  But wither "Hang on St. Christopher?"

Tracks:

1. The Payoff Mix
2. Lesson 2
3. Lesson 3
4. Jazz
5. Voice Mail
6. The Motorcade Sped On
7. It's Up to You
8. I'm Wild About That Thing
9. The Big Man Laughs
10. Vox Apostolica
11. Is We Going Under?
12. Ain't No Thing
13. Everything's Disappeared
14. Number Three on Flight Eleven
15. Tonight from NY Intro
16. Swingset

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