Steinski compiles a sampler of five songs which showcase a variety of sampling techniques. Read the list and listen to the songs here. Humphrey Bogart may not have known much about it, but he was part ...

People who attended the much-blogged-about Chicago Journalism Town Hall (still working on my post), as well as people who are interested in the history of DJing, will be interested to know that ...

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 ...

New SEC filings from pharmaceutical companies reveal Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting measures could slow drug research and delay FDA approvals. The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is ...

There was something captured in the early 1980’s New York Hip-Hop culture that we may never have back: A carefree attitude, and the music to match it. In a year that eulogizes Run-DMC as the pioneers ...

Steve Stein may be the most popular hip-hop legend you've never heard of. But that doesn't mean no one else has. From DJ Shadow to Girl Talk to Cut Chemist and beyond, artists large and small have ...

Illegal Art, home of Girl Talk, celebrates sampling pioneer Steinski, who took hip-hop's tradition of reformatting existing material and made it a postmodern funhouse. Save this story Save this story ...

Humphrey Bogart may not have known much about it, but he was part of a musical revolution in the 1980s: the sampling revolution. These days, it's not just music: Much of our culture is sampled, and ...

underground legend of the truest sort. Thanks to the nasty killjoy known as copyright law, Steinski's wildly influential old-school sound collages (known as "Lessons") have been furtively passed from ...