VA - Super Breaks: Essential Funk, Soul, & Jazz Samples and Breakbeats Vol.1, 2 & 3 (1999 - 2002)

Here it comes! Another tasteful compilation series of highly selected funk music!

Whether you are on the famous samples hunt or you`re another funk collector, these comps will fit just fine. Way more concise than other series on the same issue (like Dusty Fingers, Strictly Breaks, Ultimate Breaks and Beats and so on..), Super Breaks comprise only 3 volumes intead of 10 volumes or more.

I won`t write anything more about it, just check the tracklist and you will find everything you got to know to understand that you will need these!

VA - Super Breaks: Essential Funk, Soul, & Jazz Samples and Breakbeats Vol.1 (1999)

Tracklist:

1. Intro - The Soul Children
2. Ike's Mood - Isaac Hayes
3. Light My Fire - Jackie Wilson
4. Different Strokes - Syl Johnson
5. Thinking Single - The Counts
6. Blind Alley - The Emotions
7. Take Yo' Praise - Camille Yarbrough
8. What A Man - Linda Lyndell
9. Tramp - Lowell Fulson
10. Smokey Joe's La La - Googie Rene
11. E.V.A. - Jean-Jacques Perrey
12. Rock Creek Park - The Blackbyrds
13. Got To Learn How To Dance - The Fatback Band
14. Bouncy Lady - Pleasure
15. Drowning In The Sea of Love - Joe Simon
16. Walk Tall - Cannonball Adderley
17. Burning Spear - S.O.U.L.
18. Tramp (Instrumental) - Otis And Carla Band
19. Chick A Boom - Pazant Brothers
20. Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms) - The Detroit Emeralds

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VA - Super Breaks: Essential Funk, Soul, & Jazz Samples and Breakbeats Vol.2 (2001)

Tracklist:

1. Dance To The Drummer's Beat - Herman Kelly
2. Cramp Your Style - All The People feat. Robert Moore
3. Hard Times - Baby Huey
4. Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalmistic - Isaac Hayes
5. Be Thankful For What You've Got - William De Vaughan
6. You're Gettin' A Little Too Smart - The Detroit Emeralds
7. Unhooked Generation - Freda Payne
8. Heaven And Hell Is On Earth - 20th Century Steel Band
9. Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth - The 24-Carat Black
10. Our Generation - Ernie Hines
11. The Breakdown (Part 2) - Rufus Thomas
12. Papa Was, Too - Joe Tex
13. Just A Groove In G - Wilbur Bascomb & The Zodiac
14. Kool Is Back - Funk, Inc.
15. Joyous - Pleasure
16. Put Your Love (In My Tender Care) - The Fatback Band
17. I Like It - The Emotions
18. Funk It Up - Caesar Frazier

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VA - Super Breaks: Essential Funk, Soul, & Jazz Samples and Breakbeats Vol.3 (2002)

Tracklist:

1. I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Johnny Jenkins
2. T Plays It Cool - Marvin Gaye
3. Web - Hampton Hawes
4. Soul Pad - The Coasters
5. Nappy Dugout - Funkadelic
6. Trip To Your Heart - Sly & The Family Stone
7. The Rose - Fifty Foot Horse
8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Jimmy Ponder
9. Get Out My Life Woman - The Mad Lads
10. Music Man (Pts. 1 & 2) - Pleasure Web
11. No Strings Attached - The Mad Lads
12. After Laughter Comes Tears - Wendy Rene
13. Rivers Invitation - Freddie Robinson
14. This House Is Smoking - B.T. Express
15. Holy Ghost - The Bar Kays
16. The Masquerade Is Over - David Porter

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I hope you guys enjoy it!

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ASAP!

Hey up, guys!

I'm not coming here much often and to be sure I`m not in front of computer that much too. But good news come..

I've got some "new" stuff, clearly secondhands as you can see.

It's not the best goodies one could wish but it`s the best my surface-diggings could find and the best my pockets can afford by now and, in a broder sense, these are good clue for the few hour I've got to enjoy'em..

So give this blog a change and keep coming! maybe you find some old-new thing in the next time!

I might have some uncomplete post to be published for you to enjoy while I can`t get the time the task takes.

Sorry about the crappy picture and..
..See you!

Picks of the weekend..

I know many people out there still didn't realized what is going on.. I know there are many questions that need to be ascertained and many gaps that need to be filled to establish “market stead-state”. History tells us that many said it loud that radio would kill musicians, that movies would destroy theater arts, that digital music would put an end on CD which was once supposed to exterminate vinyl. Have any of these things really happened?

Ok, now let’s check the news! These are the gems picked this Saturday:

At first, BIRD NAM NAM’s self titled debut!

If you’ve been following this blog or checked the old posts, you might know this album. One question for the PhDs standing: Would I ever have bought it if I didn’t know it??

On the other hand, If that girl who was taking care of that “store” during lunchtime knew it too, she wouldn’t have dealt it for about only 5 dollars. Anyway, that’s what ones would call market opportunity or bargaining..

Only 5 dollars… For another amount like that I could also get a good compilation from Smashing Pumpkins. It’s called “Zero” and it seems to be a kind of bootleg but I will check that further. Some greatest SP tracks inside: “1979”, “Disarm”, “Tonight, tonight”, “Bullet with butterfly wings” amongst some others. Take a look!

While blind by the faith that internet will crash the music, some people can’t look to the fact that we need to think the whole thing in a different manner in which the market is REALLY fair. Primarily, it needs to be fair for the costumers who need to know what they are throwing in their shop-bags and who have to pay an affordable price.

On the other side, it needs to be fair for the artists who create music and must be rewarded by their value (sales, shows, donations and merchandise). However, the major questions seems to be involved with those between the artists and costumers who want to win from both sides.

Remember, artists and costumers will always exist.

See you, good-guys!

Chicken Lips – Echoman (2000)

Over the 00`s, the decade of the new style disco forms, I`ve read and heard lots of “disco this, disco that” but the fact was that finding a good nudisco album became a real hard task. Maybe only a handful of artists could reach the level achieved by Chicken Lips in Echoman.

I`m not a specialist on the theme but I guess the union of some of the ideas of Andy Meecham and Dean Meredith made the avenue in which many artists have been walking through during 00`s. Some would say they are pioneers of the spaced-out dub nu disco.

I´d say that it`s like a combo of electro-dub influences glancing disco, perhaps.. Check out the original post where i find it at The Light Of The Night. The one behind that dark red pages knows the matter, few word that say everything. Once there, check the disco and funk tags, I guess you`ll find something cool.

Tracklist:

01. Echoman Prelude (0:35)

02. Eggy's Pause Button (5:28)

03. Boiling Point (7:48)

04. Meet Me At The Freezer (7:34)

05. 3 Soaps In One (6:57)

06. 100 Sovereigns (0:19)

07. You're Not Ready Yet (6:49)

08. Is That You Or Me (7:51)

09. Do It Proper (7:18)

10. Jerk Chicken (6:58)

11. Man In His Element (6:21)

12. Lipservice (0:18)

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See you around, guys!