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Judging by the cover you're probably asking yourself,"What the hell is this?". I know break albums are infamous for incorporating dumb names, but this one is just plain ridiculous. Dj's Casual T, King SMOP, Nati Kid, Mike B, DQ, Dirty...
expand review Ru & Haiku, play the culprits to some major scratch absurdity with this one. The entire album is breaks and routines, performed live, by their scratch team and set up track by track. I know it sounds weird, but seriously you wont find this kind of playful turntablism unless you time machined yourself to back to '99-'00. Its almost better just for listening than actual battle or routine use, but there are samples nonetheless. A great record if you missed out on that rare era, where beat junkies, dibbs, and of course the piklz, had the spotlight, and lab didn't have a dance section. -C'mish
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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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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
Swamp rules. He's basically the death-metal god of scratch, providing you with scratch tools that are always super useful and always on point. This digital version of Scratch Tools is an excellent look for all the digital DJs out there, featuring 99...
expand review tracks of pure Swampy goodness. It's a mixed bag of classic scratch samples (you get your "ahhh"s and "fresh"es in a number of variations), new and orignal sound effects, plus a number of hard hitting practice loops to get loose on. Not many of these scratch records on CD yet (thought there should be). Recommended. -snackmaster
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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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