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I forgot to mention…

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• Sunday 18th January 2009

…Spin Magazine named my retrospective What Does It All Mean? as the #1 reissue of 2008. Since the review’s not online, allow me to tell you what they said:

The patron saint of copyright violation and groundbreaking inspiration to sample jockeys Prince Paul, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Fatboy Slim, and countless others, Steve Stein was a nice Jewish boy and former adman who, through his witty, danceable “Lessons,” helped sketch the curriculum for new-school hip-hop production in the late 80′s. This two-disc CV collects all his singles and the hour-long “Nothing to Fear” mix, which mines Alec Baldwin’s ball-busting turn in Glengarry GlenRoss.

Quite nice of them, although it would have been pleasantly accurate to credit Douglas DiFranco in there.