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Steinski
Creative License: Steinski's Rough Mix

Single US 2011 on Illegal Art label
Hip-Hop/Rap and R&B/Soul (Cut-up/DJ, Electro, Funk)

Cover is a photo Eye To The Needle: Wizzard K-Jee at Hofstra U by Hip-Hop activist Harry Allen. From liner notes: "Creative License: Steinski's Rough Mix" bursts with songs and artists discussed within Kembrew McLeod & Peter DiCola's book "Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling" (published in April 2011 by Duke University Press). It features hundreds of songs and samples mashed together by Steinski, the sonic cut-and-paste artist best known for a hugely influential series of early-1980s twelve-inch singles popularly known as "The Lessons." Peppered throughout the mix are soundbites from McLeod's co-produced documentary Copyright Criminals, which was recently re-released as a box set titled The Funky Drummer Edition. Illegal Art is hosting a free download of this mix, available in both FLAC and 320kbs MP3 formats, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. Notes by Steinski from his official blog: "Kembrew Mcleod – author, teacher, artist, filmmaker, and debonair man-about-town – wrote a book specifically about hiphop sampling called Creative License. It's a companion piece to his film Copyright Criminals. He asked me to put together a mix of Golden Age hiphop stuff to accompany the book, and you can download the 40 minute piece from Illegal Art, label of the stars".

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