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Legendary producer reveals untold Beastie Boys collaboration stories

By Lee Keeler

Jul 10, 2025
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We all have doodles, little bits of forgotten art in the margins of our lives. In the case of Mario Caldato Jr., these were remixes and B-sides that were recorded between larger tracks that he produced for the Beastie Boys.

It can be easy to over-fetishize the Beastie Boys. You can find yourself walking a line between toxic nostal…

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