For reasons best known to us we haven't put a Funkadelic break onto Super Breaks yet, but now they arrive with the great Nappy Dugout which formed the basis of TCQ's Ham And Eggs from their magnificent debut album. And if your old school is the brilliant late 80s sounds created by De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest we have something for you. Those who like a good old school break are catered for here by the mighty T Plays It Cool from Marvin Gaye, BT Express' This House Is Smoking and the Bar Kays' Holy Ghost which between them surprise me in their much-sampled status as you would have thought the copies would have been worn out in the block party cutting contests. Both are beautiful slices of Memphis ballad soul. We also present Wendy Rene's Wu Tang-sampled After Laughter Comes The Tears and the GZA and Mary J Blige-utilised The Masquerade Is Over by David Porter. How about the Mad Lads, one of Stax Records' finest vocal groups, who by some quirk of fate find their records sampled regularly, or, showing that we know what to keep an eye on, the Jurassic 5-sampled (and Brainfreeze mix-tape utilised) Westbound curio Music Man by Pleasure Web, here featured in unedited form for the first time ever. The track itself and the album from which it is lifted is a brilliantly dark slice of swamp blues and has Eddie Hinton on percussion, so if I ever ask you the name of the last UK number 1 to feature Mr H you now know the answer.īut those are just two of our features. The same seems to apply to Johnny Jenkins' thunderous version of I Walk On Guilded Splinters which featured on both Beck's Loser and Oasis' Go Let It Out. We have it as no one else seemed to want to re-issue it (if I'm wrong here let me know at the usual address). Take Sly and the Family Stone's Trip To Your Heart which featured as the distinctive sample on one of the most incendiary pieces of hip hop of the early 90s: LL Cool J's Marley Marl-produced Mama Said Knock Me Out. Bitter? Don't be silly because, while they are not looking, I get to use some of my favourite breaks, which you'd have thought would have featured by now. If we issued Super Breaks 1 now we would find that its tracks were clogging up half a dozen other albums, but I'd just like to say - we had them first (bootleggers seem to be better at this sort of game, perhaps unsurprisingly, and are exempted from this particular criticism - but this one only).
The market is now stuffed with Breaks compilations, which for some reason seem content to recycle the same few tracks time and time again.
One listen to our latest offering should put you right on track with that. Volume 2 is a period of retrenchment, re-stating the basic formula, Volume 3 is where we truly get up, get into it and get involved. Some people may think that by the third volume steam is being lost and things are going downhill, but I'd argue otherwise. If you know of any others, please let me know.And so to Volume 3. This is the complete collection as far as I'm aware.
Strictly breaks vol 2 series#
Many of the songs in the Strictly Breaks series have been sampled into new musical compositions, mainly by hip hop producers. The common, but hard to define thread in all of these songs is that they are "funky". Some of the offerings are well-known ( the Psycho theme by Bernard Hermann ) but most are relatively obscure tracks treasured by music connoisseurs and DJs. Following in the tradition of the Ultimate Breaks and Beats series, the Strictly Breaks records contain an eclectic range of musical styles: mainly funk and jazz, but also including soul, rock, disco and pop. Some of the songs featured contain "open breaks" which are solo drum passages which enable djs to easily transition into them, as well as attractive to producers who loop or rearrange them to create new compositions. Strictly Breaks is the name of a series of compilation records of songs that are widely admired as break beats.
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