Steinski - What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective

Much better than Normski, buy it before it’s withdrawn

How many people in this day and age can go from bathing in a stream to supervising advertising copy and becoming one of the most renowned DJs of the past 20 years? Well, thanks to entering a Tommy Boy competition looking for remixes of MC GLOBE & Whiz Kid’s Play That Beat Mr DJ, Steve “Steinski” Stein did just that with the help of producer Douglas “Double Dee” DiFranco on a slice of tape splice madness called The Payoff Mix, otherwise known as The Lesson.

Three Lessons in, Steinski branched out into cut’n’paste commentaries on the Kennedy assassination and Bollywood kaleidoscopes, soundtracking just how mass media affects perceptions. Influencing DJs and turntablists everywhere, his anything goes approach continues to run the risk of being shut down, as this compilation still hasn’t cleared the thousands of samples utilised from too many sources to count.

By turns booty-shaking, heart-breaking and soul-searching, Stein is the man with the plan for every occasion, every emotion. Whether kickin’ it in a party groove or getting political (The Motorcade Sped On or the haunting Number Three On Flight Eleven) his esoteric architectures of sampology are sheer faultless science, transcendental collages of the everyday, raised from the mundane to the sublime.

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Illegal Art | IA 116 (2-CD)

Reviewed by Excelsior Diaper
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