Beastie Boys Reissue Paul's Boutique

Check out the new Official Site for the remastered Paul's Boutique.

The Beastie Boys was already a rap phenomenon when the group's raunchy debut Licensed to Ill dropped in 1986. But the New York trio became a hip-hop legend after the brilliant, sample-based production of its 1989 follow-up, Paul's Boutique, put it over the top for good.

Now that 20 years have passed, the Boys are going back to the well with a remastering of that foundational effort.

Until Feb. 10, the trio is releasing limited-edition CD, vinyl and digital (including FLAC and Apple lossless) versions of Paul's Boutique, complete with videos, swag, posters, commentary and other treats from its official site. But that's all just repurposed ear and eye candy.

The true treats still lie within the recording itself. Two decades after the Dust Brothers-produced epic exploded the limits of sample-based hip-hop and musical production, it sounds as fresh as ever. Mostly because Paul's Boutique mined pop culture for all it was worth like few releases before or after.

Via - Scott Thill, Wired Blog