Super Breaks: Essential Funk, Soul, & Jazz Samples and Breakbeats

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Overview

Like the rest of the Super Breaks series, the first volume is ostensibly built around records that have been sampled by hip-hoppers, but can really be enjoyed by anyone looking for some quality obscure soul funk. The 20 tracks here span the late 1960s to the late 1970s, balanced between little-known tracks by noted artists (Jackie Wilson, Isaac Hayes, the Blackbyrds), mid-level soul artists (Syl Johnson, the Emotions, the Detroit Emeralds, the Soul Children, Fatback Band), and non-hitmakers, with a couple of actual well-known cuts (Joe Simon's "Drowning in the Sea of Love" and Lowell Fulson's "Tramp") to boot. It's the variety and quality that make this and its companion volumes worthy standouts, particularly in a genre that wasn't (as of 2000) over-mined to death. You have sultry female-sung grinders, hot instrumentals, soul-jazz crossovers (Cannonball Adderley's "Walk Tall," Burning Spear's flute-motored "S.O.U.L."), go-go music in the Ramsey Lewis mold (Googie Rene Combo's "Smokey Joe's La La"), even cheesy then-futuristic synth funk (Jean Jacques Perrey's oft-sampled "Eva"). It's not all killer; some of the later-vintage offerings are more in the standard soul-turning-to-disco form. It's one of the better anthologies to start with, though, if you're looking to collect stuff in this style beyond the norm. [This U.K. import is not available for sale in North America.] ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	04/24/2007
Label:	Bgp
UPC:	0029667512619

Tracks

1. Intro  -  Soul Children
2. Ike's Mood, Pt. 1  - Isaac Hayes
3. Light My Fire  - Jackie Wilson
4. Different Strokes  - Syl Johnson
5. Thinking Single  -  Counts
6. Blind Alley  -  Emotions
7. Take Yo' Praise  - Camille Yarbrough
8. What a Man  - Linda Lyndell
9. Tramp  - Lowell Fulson
10. Smokey Joe's La La  -  Rene
11. Eva  - Jean-Jacques Perrey
12. Rock Creek Park  -  Blackbyrds
13. Got to Learn How to Dance  -  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  -  Otis and Carla Band
19. Chick a Boom  -  Pazant Brothers
20. Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)  -  Detroit Emeralds

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Pazant Brothers   Primary Artist
Joe Simon   Primary Artist
The Soul Children   Primary Artist,Spoken Word
Camille Yarbrough   Primary Artist
Cannonball Adderley   Primary Artist
Pleasure   Primary Artist
Lowell Fulson   Primary Artist
Linda Lyndell   Primary Artist
The Detroit Emeralds   Primary Artist
S.O.U.L.   Primary Artist
Jean-Jacques Perrey   Primary Artist
The Counts   Primary Artist
Googie Rene Combo   Primary Artist
Otis and Carla Band   Primary Artist
Googie Rene   Primary Artist
The Emotions   Primary Artist
Jackie Wilson   Primary Artist
Isaac Hayes   Primary Artist
The Fatback Band   Primary Artist
The Blackbyrds   Primary Artist
Syl Johnson   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Joseph Hall III   Composer
Jim Morrison   Composer
Nick Robbins   Mastering
Harry Jensen   Composer
Mose Davis   Composer
Johnny Cameron   Composer
Jim Rein   Composer
Stephen Johnson   Composer
Alvin Pazant   Composer
John Zachary   Composer
Ray Manzarek   Composer
Marie Perreault   Composer
David Porter   Composer
Leon Huff   Composer
Orville Saunders   Composer
Dean Rudland   Liner Notes
Aaron Thompson   Composer
Richard Landrum   Composer
Jeanne Vikki   Composer
Abrim Tilmon   Composer
Richard Cornwell   Composer
Donald Hepburn   Composer
Bill Curtis   Composer
Perry Smith   Composer
Queen Esther Marrow   Composer
Jean-Jacques Perrey   Composer
Joe Zawinul   Composer
Dave Crawford   Composer
R. Evans   Composer
Kevin Toney   Composer
Isaac Hayes   Composer
Kenny Gamble   Composer
Jimmy McCracklin   Composer
Lowell Fulson   Composer
Camille Yarbrough   Composer
Robby Krieger   Composer
John Densmore   Composer
Andy Badale   Composer