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If anyone is going to attack this from a unique angle, let it be Boba Fettucini. Dude is the master of leftfield breaks, already putting out some of the most entertaining ones to date: Arcade Breaks, Borat Breaks, Fat Albert Breaks, Spiderman...
expand review Breaks, Napoleon Dynamite Liger breaks, etc. Finally he gives the treatment to Dark Knight. Don't expect no Danny Elfman over a James Brown break neither. All the beats seem to be taken from the original Batman show with Adam West. With the exception of the Batman theme song, the samples are so cleverly flipped, I dare you call him out on them. Also includes mad drops from some of his favorite villians. Kinda wish he put more actual samples of the Bat himself, but that's getting nit picky. All I gotta say is, put a Doom acapella over this and have heads trippin'. -C'mish
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Doo Doo Breaks was a cult hit, quietly selling over 300 copies through our website. Now that Boom Bip has gained shine through his work on Lex, this excellent tools record should be no surprise. Doo Doo Tones is a densely packed...
expand review record with an inexhaustible supply of original sounds and snippets, with each sample seemingly put through a high standard of quality control. No filler here. 18 subsections with titles like: raver girl on prozak, my pet rock, I hate trance, duborama, rapapella, and listen to the drummer. -the mgmnt
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GAWD-DAMN! That's all I gotta say. 23 tracks of the heaviest drum tracks I've ever heard, straight from the funk gods at Stones Throw. If anyone knows beats, its these dudes. Don't bother scratchin' your head, going "where is this loop from?"...
expand review I'll tell you - they're all written and performed by Dan Bitney, John Herndon and John Mcentire of Tortoise. If you don't know Tortoise, don't worry. Just know that they are masters and everyone of these tracks is a gem. Anywhere you drop the needle is going to be like the golden sample record at the end of a 3 week digging spree. It's that good. To humor you, check "A Safe Balm(1)," "...As Bond Did(2)," "Crass Jenny(3)" and "Craven(4)." See how the funk just seeps out yo' speakers? Oh, not enough? If you want some slumpy scratch beats, check "Sniper Growl(5)" for that hardness. And I've only mentioned cuts from the first LP (it's a double!). With people like Egon and PB Wolf on the creative team, they wouldn't leave anyone hanging. Whatever genre you're feeling, whether it's funk, disco, jazz, or rock - they got something for everyone here. Only questions left are, "How long before these drums get sampled for a hit?" and "How many copies does Gaslamp Killer have?" I see you. Highly recommended. -C'mish
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From the creators of Video Game Breaks comes this collection of theme songs, sound effects and dialogue from the cartoons of the 80s all the way to the present. Cartoons covered include: Looney Tunes, Jetsons, Tom & Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Fat Albert,...
expand review Transformers, Thundercats, Voltron, Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead, South Park, Futurama, Simpsons and more. Recommended. -the mgmnt
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3rd installment of DJ Rob's Video Game Breaks. Not only are these useful for routines, battles, and production, I get a wave of nostalgia just browsing through these. I'm not really the best for identifying samples, but there's a gangload of familiar...
expand review sounds from classic Sega and Nintendo, new Nintendo and Playstation. Also includes battle dialogue from Vice City. There's so many samples, it's pretty inexhaustable. -C'mish
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Okay, so you got your DJ Rectangle box set, your Dirty South beats, even Titts & Ayres' Bmore club locked grooves ... but it just feels like something's missing from your collection of regional party music breaks, no? Man Recordings has you...
expand review covered! Label head Daniel Haaksman, long-running funk DJ Sandrinho and DJ Beware have compiled on this one record basically every single loop or sample you could possibly desire for your carioca set/production. Sandrinho's side has some classic hard-hitting funk beats plus tons of rare acapella snips, like "A VEM!" and "TOMA QUE TOMA TOMA TOMA!" Even got some funky JB drums and (best of all) a locked inner groove of the boilerplate funk drum rhythm. Haaksman & Beware's side is lighter on vocals, heavier on super useful breaks and tones. This was way overdue, real glad Man did it right. -Chris Lemon-Red
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An interesting selection of reggae-tinged beats and loops. Starting with some soundclash-style movie dialogue, the record moves into 10 well conceived loops, most with slight variations to keep things interesting. Sources range from Grace Jones' "My Jamaican Guy" and "Nightclubbing" to the...
expand review Police's "Shadows In the Rain&" (good choice), U Roy's "Tom Drunk" (aka that Reflection Eternal joint), the hip hop instrumental for "Dolly My Baby," the Sleng Teng riddim and others. A long scratch sentence drawn from a variety of Jamaican mic men (Jr. Reid to Sean Paul) rounds out the package. -monk
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This Dirtstyle imposter utilizes the useful sample snippet format popularized by JS-One and others. This record features vocal snippets taken from live comedy performances by such comedians as Chris Rock, Eddie Griffin, Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield, Eddie Murphy, David Chappelle, and others....
expand review The record is well organized with sections for intros, outros, insults, skits, etc. -the mgmnt
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This one is for all you jugglers out there. Juggler's Roulette takes all your surefire loops and breaks from the 90s and 00s - plus funk breaks and classic lyrics and disses - and compiles them into one continuous flow on four...
expand review sides of a double LP. Perfect for strengthening your skills for battle. Note: it's four sides of original material, so in order to really juggle these, you gotta cop two. -C'mish
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This new scratch library from Mediapile might not have "beats" per se, but it does have an inexhaustible supply of new dialogue samples, sound effects, bass hits, guitars, horns and more. They're not your usual scratch samples either. I carefully checked both...
expand review sides and could hardly recognize any of these! For the DJ/producer, I've found it's always good to have these libraries on hand as a production tool, just in case you hit that dreaded slump. Recommended for battling, live performance and mixtape use. -C'mish
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Paul Nice is one of the mainstays in this Break Record game. His 5 Fingers of Death series is one of our best sellers and a third one is on it's way. On this beat record, Paul supplies 14 brand new...
expand review breaks for your skratching enjoyment. Most are chopped up Paul Nice creations but some are recognizable like "Sittin on Chrome" with that ill bassline, and the break from that do the Pee Herman track. Pretty much straight up beats, useful in extended skratch sessions. Kung Food. -the mgmnt
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Paul Nice's 4th volume of rare drum loops. 2500 copy one time pressing. 22 straight loops. DJs skratch over it, producers please proceed to hijack it. -the mgmnt
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Pop and lock, slug-boy! Second volume in the this very popular series of looped b-boy breaks. Another all-linoleum selection includes: Jimmy Bo Horne's "Dance Across the Floor," The Barkays' "Holy Ghost," I Level's "Give Me," Average White Band's "Person To Person," Frankie...
expand review Beverly's "Before I Let Go," Michael Wycoff's "Looking Up To You," Gaz's "Sing Sing," Dennis Edward's "Don't Look Any Further," A Taste of Honey's "Rescue Me", and few others. -the mgmnt
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Extremely useful collection of old school breaks from late 70s and early eighties. Paul Nice crafts the tracks isolating and extending the best breaks and choruses of each original. 11 selections that I know that people are looking for including loops of...
expand review Whatnauts' "Help is on the Way," Pieces of a Dream's "Mt. Airy Groove," and Central Line's "Walking into Sunshine." Recommended. -the mgmnt
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LAB EXCLUSIVO! Shortee's DJ 101 & 202 DVDs have been top sellers ever since we started carrying them a few years ago. This is only the 2nd break album produced by the famed scratch DJ, but it's the FIRST break record produced...
expand review exclusively by female DJs, as Shortee works alongside her girl Step 1. As far as the construction of the breaks on here goes, the whole thing is pretty solid. Not so many frills and gimmicks, just pure DJ tools. A whole a array of perfectly mastered disses, mini breaks for juggling and four wholesome breaks lace both sides for those "deep" sessions. Gotta give it up on the pH balance quote, "Strong enough for a man, made for a woman," and the flip of the Dr. Zoggs Sex Wax can. Check out the samples and step your game up dudes... -C'mish
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Spinbad's first break record on the Stylus Wars label. The record starts off with one of the funniest samples I've heard in a while. From an actual "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire," Regis asking "In hip-hop lingo what are the "Ones...
expand review and Twos'?' Bass beats, turntables, cordless microphones, or dancers." She doesn't have a clue and asks the audience to help, and they pick "Bass beats." Spinbad cuts in some disses to put her to shame. This is followed by a lengthy battle dialogue section, 2 unskippable skratch combos, and 2 beats with the last one locked. Side 2 features 3 beats, (the second one is a Focus Selective Channel beat, with low and high separated in left and right channel), and 2 short snippet sections. -the mgmnt
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