Pitchfork

Steve "Steinski" Stein has long been celebrated for his deft hand with the sampler and an almost total disregard for copyright law. So throw another honor on the pile: a career overview, spanning two discs and over two decades.

The veteran producer/masher-upper is set to release What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective, which gathers 14 Steinski/Double Dee & Steinski gems on its first disc and the pastiche classic Nothing to Fear on its second. Nothing to Fear, in particular, impresses, gathering as it does little bits and pieces of some of your favorite tunes in a masterfully-sequenced way.

Indeed, it's all a bit reminiscent of that Girl Talk feller, and fittingly, it will arrive May 27 via Girl Talk's label home, Illegal Art.

What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective:

Disc one: Retrospective:

01 Double Dee & Steinski: "The Payoff Mix"
02 Double Dee & Steinski: "Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix)"
03 Double Dee & Steinski: "Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop)"
04 Double Dee & Steinski: "Jazz"
05 Double Dee & Steinski: "Voice Mail (Sugar Hill Suite)"
06 Steinski: "The Motorcade Sped On"
07 Steinski: "It's Up to You (Television Mix)"
08 Steinski: "I'm Wild About That Thing"
09 Steinski: "The Big Man Laughs"
10 Steinski: "Vox Apostolica"
11 Steinski: "Is We Going Under?"
12 Steinski: "Ain't No Thing"
13 Steinski: "Everything's Disappeared"
14 Steinski: "Number Three on Flight Eleven"

Disc two: Nothing to Fear:

01 Tonight From NY Intro
02 Swingset (10 Beautiful Girls Mix)
03 Opening Credits
04 Greatest Man Alive (Man's Game Mix)
05 The Id (Small World Mix)
06 Let's Get It On (Big Daddy Mix)
07 Hit the Disco (MC Enuff Mix)
08 Lolita (Burning Mix)
09 Hot Spot (Terrible Love Mix)
10 It's a Funky Thing Pt. 1 (Special Feature Mix)
11 B-Boy 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 Swab Lake (Beat Poets Mix)
16 Here We Come (Death Mix)
17 Product of the Environment (Redfern Gowanus Electro Mix)
18 By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm & Bobby Mix)
19 The 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 The Acid Test
28 Silent Partner (Peace Out)