Track Listing
1. Payoff Mix
2. Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix)
3. Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop)
4. Jazz
5. Voice Mail (Sugar Hill Suite)
6. Motorcade Sped On
7. It's Up To You (Television Mix)
8. I'm Wild About That Thing
9. 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
1. Tonight From Ny Intro
2. Swingset (10 Beautiful Girls Mix)
3. Opening Credits
4. Greatest Man Alive (Man's Game Mix)
5. Id (Small World Mix)
6. Let's Get It On (Big Daddy Mix)
7. Hit the Disco (Mc Enuff Mix)
8. Lolita (Burning Mix)
9. Hot Spot (Terrible Love Mix)
10. It's a Funky Thing Pt. 1 (Special Feature Mix)
11. Bboy Breakdown (You Got the Job Mix)
12. B-Beat Classic (Airwave Interlude Mix)
13. Funk Construction (Prodigal Son Mix)
14. Them That's Not (Cash Mix)
15. Swan Lake (Beat Poets Mix)
16. Here We Come (Death Mix)
17. Product of the Enviroment (Redfern Gowanus Electro Mix)
18. By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm & Bobby Mix)
19. Art of Getting Jumped
20. I Like It Like That (Scratch It One Time Mix)
21. Solid Air (Junk Mood Mix)
22. Country Grammar (Hydro Mix)
23. Let's Get It On (Reprise Mix)
24. Muscles (Mistake Interlude Mix)
25. Easin' In (Pedro's Letter Mix)
26. It's Time To Testify (Mc5 Mix)
27. Acid Test
28. Silent Partner (Peace Out)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 2 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | SRD | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Among the most influential, if not unlikely, examples of early sampladelic hip-hop came about as a result of a remix contest for Tommy Boy Records in 1983. Former ad man Steve Stein teamed up with studio wiz Double Dee to create "Lesson 1 - The Payoff Mix," a dizzying collage of funk breaks and pop culture sound bites. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN 1983-2006 collects nearly everything the pair recorded together, along with Steinski's later solo efforts, including an hour-long mashup mix prepared for the BBC radio show, Solid Steel. An essential collection of early plunderphonic art that is sure to interest casual listeners and mash-up enthusiasts alike.
Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- [What's] impressive about this handsome anthology of barely legal rarities is how well tracks work as songs. The early party joints build and ebb with intractable momentum, and later pieces tell unlikely stories.The Wire (p.57) - [U]tterly essential....[A] double disc retrospective of the greatest cut 'n' paste artist this side of William Burroughs and Kurt Schwitters.Vibe (p.61) - The tracks on this stupefyingly essential, surprisingly cerebral, legally questionable two-CD retrospective of Steinski's mastermixes/breakbeat pranks are all so important to the history of hip hop, they should come with a textbook.Blender (Magazine) (p.79) - 4 stars out of 5 -- [H]is music is a utopian version of how culturally cross-referential -- and funny -- sound collage might be.
Rolling Stone
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