Anti-Theft Device

Mix Master Mike - Anti-Theft Device

Anti-Theft Device
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Artist: Mix Master Mike
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-07-21
Music Label: Asphodel Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Ultra Intro
  2. Ill Shit
  3. Unidentifried
  4. Supa Wyde Laces
  5. Billie Klubb
  6. Sektor One
  7. Rebel Enforcer
  8. Sektor Two
  9. Jack Knyfe
  10. Radiation
  11. Sektor Three
  12. Well Wicked
  13. Deeportashun
  14. All Pro
  15. Vyce Grypp
  16. Gang Tackle
  17. Sektor Four
  18. Anti-Theft Device
  19. An Astronaut
  20. Mean Dirty Killer
  21. Government Secret
  22. Can Of Kick Ass
  23. Sektor Five
  24. Suprize Packidge
  25. Fur Coat
  26. Sektor Six
  27. Sloh Beat
  28. Electrocute
  29. Black Level Clearance
  30. Sektor Seven
  31. One Minute Massacre

Music reviews of Anti-Theft Device

Music Review: A Real Trip
Rating: 5 Stars

I got switched on to Mike's work on some of the Beastie Boy's later works and really haven't looked back since. A lot of people claim that he is either the best or one of the best DJs around and "Anti-Theft Device" really backs up this claim.

The way the album is put together is really interesting, in that there are various bits which seem to tell a story if you listen carefully enough. However, the story never seems to really finish - not even at the end of the album.

For DJS the album works as a "master at work" sort of thing - similar I guess to a trumpeter listening to Miles Davis - and as far as I'm concerned, my own skills will never come remotely close to the skills exhibited here.

The way I prefer to listen to this album is as a sort of game of sample-finding. Throughout the album there are vocals from various rappers (Beastie Boys, Guru and I think NWA) and also various bits lifted from movies and advertisements. As an example, one track samples Austin Powers' nemesis Dr Evil saying "welcome to my underground lair", at the time I heard this track I hadn't actually seen Austin Powers - now I have and can appreciate the irony with which the sample is used.

The real standout for me is the early part of the album. After Mike's intro and a sample of the Beasties, we get into one of the funniest sci-fi spoofs ever created. The story of "colonel Vlaha" is going well enough until we lean that NASA claims that the voice (which sounds familiar) was not Vlaha's. This then gives cause for a voice to tell you to turn up your speakers very loud to maximise the noise that will come through them.

Far from being some kind of monotonous beeping sound - as I had expected - it turned out to be another sample. This really is the story of the entire album.

Mike continually throws in bizarre samples which make you stop and think "haven't I heard that somewhere before?" before another one comes in which just makes you burst out laughing.

In short, this is truly a work by a master DJ and one which deserves inclusion by anyone interested in art of turntablism or of hip-hop generally. It is an album which will really grow on you with repeated listens and having had them you certainly won't be disappointed.

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Description of Anti-Theft Device

Mix Master Mike is a world-champion turntable battler, and it shows on his debut recording. The first half is full of furious high-energy scratching, complete with cartoon imagery and bratty jokes; it's an old-school hip-hop party that takes place in the Beastie Boys' 'hood. It's entirely appropriate that Mike, one of San Francisco's famed Invisibl Skratch Piklz, contributes to three tracks on the Beasties' Hello Nasty and replaces DJ Hurricane in their live show; they share a manic energy. But the second half of Anti-Theft Device offers some smoother, contemplative tracks--it's on par with the dense introspection of DJ Shadow's Endtroducing... but with more flow and less virtuoso scratching. It shows that the triple M is only beginning to work out all his ideas. --Martin Johnson

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