These Are The Breaks - The-Breaks.com
February 8, 2008 4:27 pm Funky Education, Hip Hop
After checking out the “Ashley’s Roachclip” post on the awesome Funky16Corners blog, we saw that Larry put up a list of songs that sampled the funky track from the Soul Searchers. Larry pulled this list from The-Breaks.com.
So we went to check out the site, and there’s a ton of great information compiled on sampling from all different types of music. The site divides sample lists by genre and artist, and there’s also a search function that makes it’s easy to find out who took what from whom.
Here’s an example — a list of songs and artists that lifted elements from Kurtis Blow’s classic track “The Breaks.”
The Breaks: (Mercury 1980)
“The Breaks”
Chemical Brothers’s “It Began in Africa”
De la Soul’s “Brakes”
DJ Shadow’s “Basic Mega-Mix”
KRS-One’s “MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know”
Not Enough ft Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks”
Poison Clan’s “Rough Nigga Gets Busy”
T La Rock ft Jazzy Jay’s “It’s Yours”
So the next time you want to track the journey of a sample, visit The-Breaks.com and find out quickly where samples originated and where they turned up.
On a side note, my buddy Saif still owes me money for stepping on my Kurtis Blow 12-inch and busting to pieces my copy of “The Breaks.” I haven’t forgotten bro…