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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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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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Just in time for Halloween kiddies! This is every single Horror movie flick soundtrack, fx, and dialogue clip I remember growing up as a kid: Hellraiser, Halloween, Psycho, Nightmare On Elm Street, Child's Play, Exorcist, Scream, and many, many more....
expand review Hear helpless teenage girls scream for their life as they get slashed, chased, stabbed, and deaded. You know when you watch them go into a dark alley to make out with their punk-ass boyfriend, its a cue for disaster. Just hope the director has enough sense to show a lil' gazungas before they get got. Mixes perfect with sadistic gangsta shit. Think Brotha Lynch Hung, ICP, Teck N9ne, Geto Boys, "Mind Is Playing Tricks One Me", and early Bone Thugs(pre-Crossroads). -C'mish
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Uh huh. This is the jump off. Hip Hop essentials: Scratch FX. Look, although my co-workers at lab don't know this, but I've been in the scratch game ferrrr days. I've seen it all, ever since the early...
expand review goofball days of 2 dj's on one set of tables and Baby G demonstrating his "crotch fader" juggle, bootleg Beat Junkies mixtapes(cassettes), and even the overtechnical days of the Asisphonics board. 3 click orbit flares, fading lasers, trubs, all that and then some. My secret, I haven't bought a break album since Hee-Haw breaks. Its got everything you need. Every sample you hear skratched on radio songs and peoples tracks is on that record. But guess what? After 5 years, even the most classic of scratch sounds gets old. I'm copping this one for sure. Call it an upgrade. This one has the best sound compilation out there. Everything from clean acapella snippets from every hip hop legend you can think of, essential breaks, sirens, and obnoxious noises and porn moans. Don't trust the audio sample, this has way too much to fit into 2 min. Pretty easy finding the sounds too, the whole record is organized by theme. Also, producers. Keep your eye on this. If you've ever wanted to find the acapella to a banging hip hop song just so you could flip one part, its probably on here. (sidenote: Snack noticed DJ Rob's covers are all rip offs of old dreamcasts games. We see you nerd!) -the Commish
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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 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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Okay, here's the deal. Guy sends Snackmaster a promo out of the blue for another skratch record. Great. When we get it, we walk over to the turn, put it on. Hmm, "Pretty good", Needle Drop, "Hey, this...
expand review beat is sick!", needle drop some more, "OK, I'm sold.(check side b)" Mind you, at the Pro Squad, we listen to EVERYTHING. This is definitely as foward thinking a break album as you can get. All tracks are ready for scratching over, routines, and battling. All the beats are complex and feelable, and even comparable to some of our dubstep or grime beats we carry. Lemme put it to you this way, we played a break album at Lab, and shipset crew asked,"What record is this?". Do you know how monumental that is? They never ask that. Whenever we put on a break album, its always, "Oh no, its the Cali Boyz with their scratch shit again.". Not anymore. This one just set precedent. Spoil yourself, just dont soil yourself. -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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In a previous life Ruckus sold hundreds of scratch sample records at Turnt(l)able. Fast forward to 2008, and after years of hibernating in stacks of dusty vinyl, Ruckus is back with a throwback DJ album full of sample play, swift cuts, and...
expand review a sense of playfulness that died out around the time when "jiggy" became a part of our vocabulary. When listening to this album, you undoubtedly will think about dudes like Kid Koala + P-Love, those old playskool toys, and the first time you ate shrooms. Check tracks: "How To Handle Grownups(1)," "Here We Go(2)," "Taking Turns(3)," "The Rebirth of Ruckus(4)," and "When I Grow Up(5)." 15 tracks in all. -Chris Lemon-Red
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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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The Groove Of Satyre (TGOS for short) give you a full library of experimental sounds from another dimension. If you're looking for "Aaah's," "Fresh's," and repetitive beat loops please look elsewhere. These guys are breaking the traditional break record formula, hooking up...
expand review turntable musicians (and producers) with unique and abstract sounds and drums to tweak, cut, and flip. The samples themselves were taken from vintage analog equipment including the Emu SP 12 Turbo, Roland VP 330 Vocoder, Mutron Bi-Phase, Fender Telecaster, Roland Jupitor 8, Korg PS3100, Arp 2600, Fender Precision, and many others. A powerful tool for anyone looking for new and unusual sounds to work with. -snackmaster
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