★★★★★
Just in time for the holiday season, the renowned turntablist Mix Master Mike has a "Suprize Packidge" of holiday goodies on this long playing CD single, with a special guest assist by everybody's favorite "Modeling School" graduate The Automator.The remix of "Surprize Packidge" doesn't actually turn out tobe a huge surprise at all. The remix by The Automator has familiar audio loops heads will recognize from sources as disparate as Missy Elliott and Pharoahe Monch...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Listening to most turntablism albums is like putting porn on the TV, turning up the volume really loud and leaving the room to masturbate. The interdependence of sound and vision are such that the spectacle of some character flipping his leg behind his neck while he juggles two records is perfectly reasonable as long as those two records are an old funk 45 and a Godzilla sound effects platter...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Although he's a member of the up-and-coming turntablist posse The Invisible Skratch
Pikilz, Mix Master Mike is probably currently best known as the man behind the
needles on the new Beastie Boys album. That's right, he's the guy that the group
seemingly wrote an ode to with their track "3 MC's and One DJ." If you haven't heard
any of the newest turntable hip-hop, the style of that track is probably your best
introduction to what lies on this album...
- www.almostcool.org
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Hip-hop scenester Mix Master Mike has been keeping himself busy. When
not DJing for the Beastie Boys or the turntable collective the Invisibl
Skratch Piklz, he's doing it solo. And Anti-Theft Device, the follow-
up to his 1996 full-length debut is not only inventive, it's danceable.
The tracks are, for the most part, relatively short and packed with samples
from old rap records and b-movies (a few of which have pretty obvious sources)...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
As the Beastie Boys' official DJ, winner of numerous DJ competitions, and principal member of
the Invisbl Skratch Piklz, Mix Master Mike's got a resume that commands respect, and that's even
before you hear him on the tables. Eye of the Cyclops, Mike's fourth EP release, clocks
in at a mere 22 minutes, a fact that had escaped me until just a few minutes ago.
For the past three weeks, I've had Eye of the Cyclops in exclusive rotation in our
kitchen...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
It's difficult to come up with a serious discussion of a major turntablist release without asking the question of whether turntablism is art. It's a silly question, really, when you consider that the garbage collage is becoming a viable genre in the modern visual artsif one can use cast-off artifacts to put together a legitimate piece of art in a visual medium, why not in an aural one? Mix Master Mike's instruments of choice are two turntables (no microphone) and a seemingly unlimited supply ...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Mix Master Mike, the three-time DMC world champion, the guy who attracted Beastie Boys, and the same man who helped found the Invisibl Skratch Piklz (a group of the most talented turntablists the world knows) is back and surprising the world with something he's never done before -- at least commercially...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
It's not that Mix Master Mike's Bangzilla isn't exciting; it is. The turntable master throws plenty of wild sounds at the listener, the pace is hectic throughout, and if you don't giggle at any of the numerous quirky samples you're probably the sour type. Problem is, Bangzilla is missing that something extra for all those who don't worship at the altar of his usual crew -- the Beastie Boys -- or those who don't own a ton of vinyl with words like "breaks" or "beats" on the covers...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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