Antidote Releases Burning Out Of Control (The Sugarhill Mix) 2003 Melle Mel Freestyle (Steinski's Additive Remix) 12" 2003 Press Steinski (advertising writer, DJ and record collector Steve Stein) produced his first record in 1983. In response to a nationwide call for entries by Tommy Boy Records for the "Hey Mr. DJ Play That Beat Down By Law Switch The Licks Mastermix Contest," he and partner Double Dee (engineer and studio wizard Douglas DiFranco) produced "The Payoff Mix". A panel of 10 judges, including Afrika Bambaataa, Shep Pettibone and Arthur Baker, unanimously chose the Double Dee & Steinski mix as the winner. Within two weeks "The Payoff Mix" became a Top 10 record on urban radio nationwide. The mix couldn't be sold due to clearance problems (of course), and it is still one of the most desirable and prized bootleg recordings in hip hop. "The Payoff Mix" became the first record in a series now known as The Lessons. Double Dee and Steinski followed up with cut and paste landmark "Lesson Two: The James Brown Mix," which Fatboy Slim called "the record that always gets the crowd going." Then came "Lesson 3: The History of Hip Hop." The Lessons series quickly became highly sought after collectibles and led to homage records by DJ Shadow (Lesson 4), Cut Chemist (Lessons 4 and 6), DJ Format (The English Lesson), and DJ Bombjack (Lesson 7). When Double Dee left the team in 1985, Steinski continued with his dark hip hop narrative about the Kennedy assassination, "The Motorcade Sped On." It was popularized when the UK music magazine NME stapled a Flexi-disk of it to their Jan. 31, 1987 cover. Steinski followed with We'll Be Right Back" (Island) and sometime later with "I'm Wild About That Thing" (Ninjatune) which were both picked up for UK TV ad campaigns (Ovaltine and Pretty Polly Bras, respectively). Double Dee and Steinski reunited in 1998 for "Jazz," a remix of Afrika Bambaataa And The Jazzy 5's "Jazzy Sensation," for Tommy Boy's 15th Anniversary. They followed that with "VoiceMail," a megamix of the Sugarhill Records catalog for Rikki Tik/Castle (UK). Shortly after, Steinski and friend Ill Chemist remixed Frankie Goes To Hollywood's classic "Relax" for the Ben Stiller film Zoolander. Steinski's also remixed "Your Reality's A Fantasy" (featuring Chuck D) for Japan's Boom Boom Satellite, and contributed original tracks to anthologies such as "Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo" (Motel) and "Constant Elevation" (Astralwerks).

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