Double Dee & Steinski

Double Dee and Steinski is a duo of hip hop producers, composed of Doug "Double Dee" DiFranco and Steven "Steinski" Stein. They achieved notoriety in the early 1980s for a series of underground hip-hop sample-based collages known as the "Lessons".
Although they never had a hit record, they proved highly influential for subsequent artists such as Coldcut, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, the Avalanches, and Girl Talk. Their music was not widely available on CD until 2008 due to their use of copyrighted material. There have been occasional illegal re-issues, and several internet sites have mp3s of their music available for download.
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== Links To Peel ==
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”With hip-hop, there are so many elements brought into play and brought in from such random points - I mean, like just sampled speech and sampled rhythms and sampled bits of guitar and so on – I mean, there’s just so much going on there’s almost too much happening in a lot of the records, where you have to listen to them quite carefully, quite a lot, in order to identify everything that’s going on.”(John Peel, Peeling Back The Years 5 (Transcript) (1987-10-24), before playing of ‘The Payoff Mix’ by Double Dee & Steinski)
Double Dee & Steinski’s “Payoff Mix” (aka "Lesson 1") appeared as a rare example of Hip Hop in the Peeling Back The Years series, indicating the importance Peel placed on the landmark recording, created originally for a Tommy Boy label contest in 1983, while “showing that there is life after the old guitar, bass, drums” (in the words of producer John Walters). On his 16 August 1990 show, the DJ was still complaining that his copy had been stolen in Amsterdam (in 1985).
Peel continued to play releases created to Steinski (usually with Mass Media) until 2002.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
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== Sessions ==
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== Other Shows Played ==
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*05 June 1985: The Payoff Mix (Mastermix Of G.L.O.B.E. And Whiz Kid's: "Play That Beat Mr. D.J.") (12" - Lesson 1,2 & 3) Tommy Boy TB 867
*10 June 1985: Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix) (12" - Lesson 1,2 & 3) Tommy Boy TB 867
*Peeling Back The Years 5 (1987-10-24): The Payoff Mix (12” single) Tommy Boy
*16 August 1990: (JP: 'I wanted at this stage to play you Lesson One by Double Dee & Steinski, but alas it was one of the records I had stolen in Amsterdam, and I've never been able to replace it, perhaps not surprisingly. So instead…) - Lesson Two (James Brown Mix) (12"-Mastermixes)' (not on label)
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*07 January 1987: We'll Be Right Back (12") 4th & Broadway
*13 January 1987: We'll Be Right Back (12") 4th & Broadway
*21 January 1987: We'll Be Right Back (12") 4th & Broadway
*10 February 1987: We'll Be Right Back (12") 4th & Broadway
*18 February 1987 (Radio Bremen) We'll Be Right Back (12") 4th & Broadway
*22 June 1988 (featuring D.J. "Sugar" Kane): Let's Play It Cool (12") 4th & Broadway
*27 June 1988 (featuring D.J. "Sugar" Kane): Let's Play It Cool (12") 4th & Broadway
*30 October 1992: It’s Up To You (single) Ninja Tune
*13 November 1992: It's Up To You (12") Ninja Tune
*06 May 1997: The Motorcade Sped On (v/a 7" - NME's Hat-Trick)
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*06 March 2002: N.Y. N. Y. (single) Howlin'
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official site
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