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Steinski

Tommy Boy, New York, USA

It all began in the early '80s, when Steinski, an incurable beat junkie, started schooling his friend Doug DeFranco in the joys of hip hop. A short while later they entered the Tommy Boy - Hey Mr. DJ Play That Beat Down contest with a track made by using tape and a razor blade, received a standing ovation from the judges, who included Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, Shep Pettibone and Jellybean Benitez. The track was the first of its kind to be created with samples - it's closest contemporaries being tracks by Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash, who made sonic collages using only turntables. They financed a pressing of Lesson Two themselves, and distributed it to DJs and radio stations. Lesson 3: The History Of Hip Hop perhaps pushed the copyright infringement a little far, and their Lesson was ordered to be removed from shelves: making their bootlegs some of the most sought-after mixes in the history of hip hop.  

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