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Nabbed this from emusic last week. I hadn't heard most of this stuff since high school, 24 years ago. Damn.

The "Lesson" singles are still considered among the important early hip-hop records, and they spread mostly through bootlegs. Waaaayyy too many samples to clear & release, even for the 80s.

It's hip-hop reduced to pure samples and DJ cutting. The rappers are pushed far to the background when they can be heard at all. A reduction of everything to its hottest 15-second breakbeat.

Listening today they're still remarkable. They grasped what a lot of mash-up artists today are missing; the joke's not funny if the beat's not funky. They're the most unstoppable novelty records ever made.

Any other fans?

bobzilla77 said:

Their songs came out on the DJ pool series called Disconet originally which a friend and I dug up.

There was also this handy 2002 compilation which continues to tell the story with Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow's lesson 4's. There was a volume two as well that had more cut-and-paste songs.