I got this courtesy of The Smoking Section:

Steinski – What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective

The back story is great: Steve Stein, collegiate dope-dealer-turned-suit at the Doyle Dane Bernbach ad agency, enters a hip-hop-remix contest with a pal in 1983 and smokes the competition. His entry, The Payoff Mix, is a funky train wreck of uncleared samples — the Supremes, Little Richard, Culture Club, Humphrey Bogart — crosswiring Grandmaster Flash’s mixology with the pop tune punch lines of Dickie Goodman’s Seventies novelty collage singles. Payoff, included here with its offspring Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix) and Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop), inspired crate-digging producers from Prince Paul to DJ Shadow to Girl Talk, and permanently raised the bar for rap track makers. Influence aside, what’s just as 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 Motorcade Sped On” samples newscasts on the JFK assassination; the chilling “Number Three on Flight Eleven” documents a flight attendant’s 9/11 call for help. And the hilarious, hour-long “Nothing to Fear” megamix proves that this guy didn’t just pioneer the mash-up, he’s still the outlaw genre’s dean.

http://www.myspace.com/steinski

1-1 The Payoff Mix (5:23)
1-2 Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix) (4:23)
1-3 Lesson 3 (History Of Hip Hop) (5:03)
1-4 Jazz (5:04)
1-5 Voice Mail (Sugar Hill Suite) (5:35)
1-6 The Motorcade Sped On (4:00)
1-7 It’s Up To You (Television Mix) (5:05)
1-8 I’m Wild About That Thing (4:46)
1-9 The Big Man Laughs (4:19)
1-10 Vox Apostolica (4:38)
1-11 Is We Going Under? (6:38)
1-12 Ain’t No Thing (6:33)
1-13 Everything’s Disappeared (4:12)
1-14 Number Three On Flight Eleven (7:48)
NOTHING TO FEAR
2-1 Tonight From NY Intro (1:31)
2-2 Swingset (10 Beautiful Girls Mix) (3:21)
2-3 Opening Credits (1:16)
2-4 Greatest Man Alive (Man’s Game Mix) (2:31)
2-5 The ID (Small World Mix) (3:23)
2-6 Let’s Get It On (Big Daddy Mix) (1:25)
2-7 Hit The Disco (MC Enuff Mix) (3:48)
2-8 Lolita (Burning Mix) (1:36)
2-9 Hot Spot (Terrible Love Mix) (2:49)
2-10 It’s A Funky Thing Pt. 1 (Special Feature Mix) (5:18)
2-11 Bboy Breakdown (You Got The Job Mix) (2:29)
2-12 B-Beat Classic (Airwave Interlude Mix) (0:36)
2-13 Funk Construction (Prodigal Son Mix) (3:00)
2-14 Them That’s Not (Cash Mix) (2:10)
2-15 Swan Lake (Beat Poets Mix) (3:06)
2-16 Here We Come (Death Mix) (2:18)
2-17 Product Of The Environment (Redfern Gowanus Electro Mix) (1:41)
2-18 By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm & Bobby Mix) (2:07)
2-19 The Art Of Getting Jumped (1:08)
2-20 I Like IT LIke That (Scratch It One Time Mix) (1:02)
2-21 Solid Air (Junk Mood Mix) (3:23)
2-22 Country Grammar (Hydro Mix) (2:33)
2-23 Let’s Get It On (Reprise Mix) (0:46)
2-24 Muscles (Mistake Interlude Mix) (0:23)
2-25 Easin’ In (Pedro’s Letter Mix) (1:27)
2-26 It’s Time To Testify (MC5 Mix) (1:54)
2-27 The Acid Test (0:52)
2-28 Silent Partner (Peace Out) (0:53)

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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
–Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust
A project by Saul Williams, produced by Trent Renzor of NIN.
Saul told my partner Tyren once that he wouldn’t need music to get heard.
I don’t know about that, but this definitely prove that he doesn’t need a record label.

Head over to www.niggytardust.com for all the details.

The long story short:
Users can download a 192kbps MP3 version of the entire album for free, or pay $5 to support the artist and be given the choice of downloading 192kps MP3 version, 320kbps MP3 version or lossless FLAC version.

This what Trent Renzor had to say:

There are obvious similarities in how Radiohead just released their new record and the way we’ve chosen to. After thinking about this way too much, I feel we’ve improved upon their idea in a few profound ways that benefit you, the consumer. You obviously will be the judge of this in the end. One thing that IS very different in our situation is that Saul’s not the household name (yet!) that Radiohead is, and that means we need your support on this more than ever. If you like what you hear, spread the word.

Saul Williams not a “household” name? In what households?
He was the star of the movie Slam, which won both the Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes Camera D’Or, introducing Williams to international audience.
His album Amethyst Rock Star was produced by Rick Rubin.

This just proves my point that with traditional and non-traditional promotion, this will be THE way music will be released by both independent and major artist, and killing the preferred CD format at the same time.

I was invited to attend this years,UNA-NY 2007 Humanitarian Award is presented each year in observance of United Nations Day. It;s on October 25th, which I cant make but I figured I’d post something about it.

This year’s theme is the “Global Water Crisis,” recognizing that 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water resulting in disease and premature death, particularly amongst children. A portion of the proceeds from the dinner will be donated to organizations working to alleviate the water crisis.

The scope of the Global Water Crisis is staggering. Every 15 seconds, a child dies from drinking contaminated water. Water scarcity already affects every continent and more than 40% of the people on our planet, and more than 2.2 million people, mostly in developing countries, die each year from diseases associated with poor water and unsanitary conditions.

it’s a good cause, click here to donate

Just an update the the Jena 6 situation that I wrote about last month.
Thank you for the email and the comments on that blog.
If you haven’t signed the petition, please sign it here.

Today, David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena.

“There is clearly a separate and unequal judicial process going on in the town of Jena,” Bowie said Tuesday in an e-mail statement. “A donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund is my small gesture indicating my belief that a wrongful charge and sentence should be prevented.”

(I wrote about MY brief David Bowie encounter in ‘02)

Bell was found guilty on second-degree battery charges June 28 by a six-member, all-white jury. Before the case was overturned by the state 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal, his sentencing had been set for Thursday.

The court said Bell, who was 16 at the time of the alleged December 2006 beating, shouldn’t have been tried as an adult.

As Danny Charles wrote in his comment:
‘When the Duke lacrosse case was going on, the media had something on the news on a daily basis, while the Jena Six case has been basically swept under the rug….”

Where is everyone else with the donations and support?

There will be a Jena 6 rally in Brooklyn tomorrow morning:

DEMAND JUSTICE

FOR THE
JENA 6!
“Justice for Jena”
Rally for Peace & Justice
THIS THURSDAY
September 20, 2007
9:30 am

Steps of BROOKLYN
BOROUGH HALL
209 Joralemon Street • Downtown Brooklyn
(2,3,4,5,A,C,F,M,R trains to Borough Hall)

No More Jim Crow Justice!
In Jena, Louisiana, white students hung nooses in a tree at the public high school, to warn black students not to sit under the “white tree.” The school dismissed this hate crime as a harmless prank. When black students protested, the local District Attorney threatened to take their life away with a “stroke of my pen.” After a schoolyard fight broke out between black and white students, the District Attorney responded by charging six black students with attempted murder. This does not just happen in Jena, Louisiana. Youth of color are treated this way all over America. Help us build a justice system that truly serves all our children.

The organizers of the rally, Assemblyman Karim Camara, Ms. Donna Nassor of Friends of Justice, and NYC Council Member Al Vann, will speak and have invited a number of other leaders to participate, including NYC Council Member Charles Barron; Rev. Herbert Daughtry of House of the Lord Church; Rev. Dr. Johnny Ray Youngblood of St. Paul Community Baptist Church; Hazel Dukes, President, NAACP New York State Conference; and activist/writer Kevin Powell.
There will be commentary, healing prayers, artists, and words of solidarity from various leaders and activists.

Info about various ways to support the Jena 6 will also be available.

To Learn More:
Friends of Justice website:
http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/jena-6

Watch Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org

Questions? Contact:
For more general information, please contact
Lauren Baranco of Assemblyman Karim Camara’s office
at 718.756.1776 or barancl@assembly.state.ny.us.

All media inquiries are directed to
AKILA WORKSONGS Public Relations
at 718.756.8501 or at pr@akilaworksongs.com

It’s almost hard to believe that blatant racism still runs rampant in America in the 21st century.
But it’s complete “Jim Crow” down in Jena, Louisiana that includes:
“a tree for ‘whites only and nooses,
and a black high school student who was involved in a fight with a white student was convicted by an ALL white jury and faces a sentence of 22 years….
Watch the report and see the facts for yourself

So far 26953 people , including myself have signed an online petition to the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Please sign the petition
by clicking here