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The album starts off with 3 great instrumentals including a track called "Cosmic Assassins" with Q-Bert. Incredibly good album consisting of a combo of straight-up turntable instrumentals and remixes of great hip-hop tracks. Then the mixes commence starting with Gangstarr, KRS-One, and so on. The album's fast-paced and will keep your head nodding. Mixmaster Mike's turntable skills and his talent for remixing hip-hop tracks are on full display. In my opinion, there's not a single weak track on this album which terminates in a new version of "Three MCs and One DJ" which is different from the original on the Beastie Boys' "Hello Nasty" CD.Great album all around. I highly recommend it.
9th called "deadly dj cuts" and his tracks were the best ones on the entire cd. i looooove mixmaster mike. You can listen to some of it on thumprecords.com/deadlydjcuts. i was listening to this and i couldn't stop. i'm an intern at universal music so i recently got to listen to this new album on thump records that just came out on sept. they're also giving out a pair of new turntables.u gotta get this. it's dope.
alright, the people who gave this album anything less than 4 stars have no idea what they are talking about and have never touch a set of turn tables. some times he'll blow your mind with ultra fast scratching and at other times he throws in abstract out of time beat placement causing a confusing effect of beats and snares hitting the wall all at the same time, but i asure you everything he does on this album is intentional, not sloppy like another reviewer mention. mix master mike is a genious for putting this album together because it combines underground hiphop elements with some jiggy-type rap. the scratching technique is brilliant. Buy this album, if you're a REAL hiphop fan, i guaranty you'll like it. just look at the track list for god sakes.
This CD is worth buying soely for the Positive Contact remix.
If you listen closely, with the right kind of ears, you can hear it. He was also part of a group of revolving turntable technicians known as the Invisbl Skratch Piklz, which included the DJ's(among others)Qbert, Flare, Shortkut, and Disk. He puts his heart into his songs. ADD A LITTLE BIT OF HEART, AND YOU HAVE ONE OF THE BEST MIXTAPES FROM ONE OF THE BEST.
Mike's is no different, it's (as expected) pretty fast paced, and flows quickly. What does he like to cutup most. He does also a much needed dose of a special flavor to his mixes that people rarely use. All consisting of his excellent boom-bap production skillz, and constant track title mispelling. To those who don't already know, yes, he is a member of the Beastie Boys.
Well, Mike sets it off with an intro used from his "Anti-Theft Device" album. From then on superfast skratching and hilarity ensues. Back in the days, this was a way for a DJ to show his true unique skills and techniques. Say it with me now, Heart. Anyway, onto the album.
All perfect in there own right. What can be said of Mixmaster Mike. I found myself rewinding constantly, in a kind of "WTF" kind of mode. The pace of a mixtape is always important.
The most important thing about a mixtape, is that it is like a journey into the Dj's head. What are his favorite songs. p.s.
So far in his solo career he has put out about four albums. Is there an unedited version available. As stated before, he has about 4 other solo albums.
This album strays away from his usual albums and venture off into the mixtape foray. This album sounds to me like mike just chilling in his room, making a mixtape not for any commercial reasons (most of the acts are underground, very underground) but he just wants to have fun. That would be my only gripe.
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