
Comedy meet music... Comedy Central meet Steve "Steinski" Stein, the Thomas Edison of remixing (and by that I mean he's a true pioneer, not that he ripped off some English bloke). While recuperating from surgery Steinski was approached by American comic TJ Miller with the idea of creating a series of sound collages/remixes based on his Comedy Central show, Mashup . The resulting works of genius are now available for FREE DOWNLOAD over on Steinski's website. The trademark Steinski sound effects and production techniques that had [...]
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Thanks to his early-'80s sample-collage throwdowns, the producer and DJ Steinski is the rare guy who can claim pioneer status in both rap and experimental music. And Steinski is still patching together bits of stolen audio in ways that, more often than not, have a case to make. His latest effort is "Mitt Romney Vs. The Truth (Steinski's Fair & Balanced Hiphop Remix)," a track that throws bits of Mitt Romeny's voice over a nice succession of rap beats, including a bunch from Jay-Z songs. The track has fun painting Romney as a goofy, out-of-touch flip-flopper, and it's more fun [...]
Twenty years after the Iraq war referencing " It's Up To You ", Hip-Hop & Cut-Up legend Steve Stein aka Steinski has been sufficiently riled by the newly 'moderate' Mitt Romney to produce his own take on the US Election 2012 . " A piece I did to let off some steam. It’s up on reddit in politics, too, if you feel like giving it a boost . " Visit Steinski's label Illegal Art to download an MP3 or high quality FLAC for gratis. [...]
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Rising actor/comedian T.J. Miller ( Cloverfield , She's Out of My League ) releases his comedy-rap mixtape, The Extended Play E.P. Illegal Art ReMixTape , this week via Illegal Art. The effort is a reworking of Miller's 41-track debut, The Extended Play E.P. , a comedic take on a stereotypical rap album featuring fellow jokesters Bo Burnham, Doug Benson, Pete Holmes, and more. This go around, Miller has tapped DJs/producers The Kleptones, Jesse Case, The Bran Flakes, and more to refurbish eight EP favorites. "This record is basically a joke, but it's also [...]

On April 17, Cousins George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk (a/k/a Javelin ) are giving their first 2 self-titled Thrill Jockey EPs, Javelin 1 & Javelin 2 , a proper digital release via Luaka Bop . This here is an oldie but a goodie. Listen. Downloadable: Soda Popinski (mp3) Javelin plan to release their follow up to No Más later this year. Details TK. Upcoming (headlining) NYC show: April 11 @ Brooklyn Bowl [...]
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Time for a little bit of aural time travel. Let's look back, reflect, and contemplate... what were we listening to one year ago? Listen to the August 2010 Mix and find out. Downloadables: Golden Town (mp3) by Super Wild Horses Fried Egg (mp3) by Grass Widow I've Gotta Get (mp3) by Woven Bones Glitter (mp3) by No Age [...]

THE INDELICATES - DAVID KORESH SUPERSTAR Before the blog enters a period of silence - while I pop my Glastonbury cherry - a few tracks that really should've been shouted from the roof tops months ago. First up a concept album from The Indelicates, the band responsible for " Savages " a tune somewhat ridiculously awarded 2nd best track of 2010 by this here blogger - I say ridiculous because it clearly should've been No.1! Back in 2004 the Indelicates were busy rehearsing their hit fringe musical [...]

"In hour 2 Steinski hits us with an almighty mix of Golden Era hip hop created to accompany a book all about hip hop sampling called Creative License. The sonic cut and paste artist dips and dives through hip hop legends Public Enemy, De La Soul, Run DMC and Marley Marl, all interwoven with the music they sampled from Steely Dan, Kraftwerk, Candido and Parliament, and of course peppered with his trademark spoken word." No additional comment necessary. Tracklist below the jump. Download: (via Grand Good ) [...]

Indecently, we just posted a review on Dennis Coffey’s past and previous classic work and then we come across a smack-bang-up-to-date offering of Coffey’s ‘never gone away’ talents and latest offerings. We’ve certainly had our botty's royally slapped here ... Fresh from being awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award @ this years Detroit Music Awards on April 16th 2011, which also included a collaboration on stage with Michigan’s own soul legend in Mayer Hawthorne, Dennis Coffey has now released a whopping texture-based funk LP in the shape of yet another self titled album called “ [...]
Indecently, we just posted a review on Dennis Coffey’s past and previous classic work and then we come across a smack-bang-up-to-date offering of Coffey’s ‘never gone away’ talents and latest offerings. We’ve certainly had our botty's royally slapped here ... Fresh from being awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award @ this years Detroit Music Awards on [...]
Steinski was recently on the Solid Steel radio show from Ninja Tune with a mix of golden-era Hip Hop which was created to accompany a book called 'Creative License'. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get there own individual posts on here on GIMME TINNITUS, if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR [...]

Next up in our best of 2010 coverage is our list of favorite remixes. Enjoy. Crawl Back In ( Baths Remix) (mp3) by Brad Laner Wide Eyes ( Suckers Remix) (mp3) by Local Natives (d/l the stems @ stems.heroku.com ) Silverfish ( Junk Culture Remix) (mp3) by Signals I'd Be Insane To Say It ( Ape School [...]

This article originally feature in print in April 2008. What do 57 year old Jewish advertising consultant Steve Stein and 26 year old former biomedical engineer Greg Gillis have in common? Quite a lot actually. Both men are purveyors of highly contentious music based on samples of other artists' original works that thus far has avoided the clutches of the copyright controllers. Both have recently released albums with the Illegal Art label; Stein better known as Steinski with What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 , a retrospective of his work made available officially [...]
Ninja Tune continue their worldwide tour celebrating 20 years of the seminal label with a stop off in Bristol this Saturday November 13th, as part of the Bristol In:Motion season. Cutting edge electronica, hip hop, dubstep and live visuals comes from Coldcut, Mixmaster Mike, Steinski, The Bug & Flowdan, DJ Food & DK, Jammer, DJ Vadim, [...]
Please excuse the introductory self-promotion but the music industry types at Record Of The Day have rather surprisingly nominated this 'umble site in the best blog category for 2010. Results are due soon, and victory is guaranteed (as long as they accept multiple votes from the geographical area where purely coincidently my mother lives). JAMES MATHÉ AND THE GIANT PEACH The quality of music coming from artists associated with the Fife based " Fence Collective " is never [...]

It's time for the next installment of the Best Downloadables series. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page or download any of the tracks at your leisure. Listen. Downloadables: Highway Scratch (mp3) by Sisters Eyesore (mp3) by Women The Stroller (mp3) by Jaill I Don't Mind It (mp3) by Screaming Females [...]