Steve Stein a.k.a Steinski is a hip-hop producer, advertising exec, copywriter and hiphop luminary who achieved notoriety in the early 1980s for a series of underground hip-hop sample-based collages known as the Lessons. So influential were these records in the cut-and-paste approach to instrumental hiphop production you can find a special shout out to Steve on the inside cover of DJ Shadow’s ‘Entroducing’.

Add to this the fact that his Lessons records (produced with creative partner Double Dee) played a major part in bringing Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow together for the first time (Both artists made records titled Lesson 4 in tribute to Steinski – At the time, Cut Chemist was apparently unaware of the existence of Shadow’s similarly-titled “Lesson 4″ from two years earlier; the two would later collaborate on several “Live Lessons”) and it’s obvious this man has played his part in the history and further development of HipHop.

Steve has played at various ChoiceCuts events over the years and was also a headlining guest at Sweettalk in 2008 – This is why we are delighted to have this unreleased, exclusive cut and paste bomb entitled ‘Mindbender‘ available for download courtesy of Mr. Stein himself:

Steinski – Mindbender by ChoiceCuts

By the way, Steve has released his 23-year retrospective double CD titled ‘What Does It All Mean‘ on Illegal Art (more info here) which you should check out – and if that ain’t enough Steinski for you then get over to his blog (www.steinski.net) for biting satire, engaging politikin’ and a peak inside the world of the Stein)…