{"product_id":"this-is-the-breaks-1966-1975","title":"This Is The Breaks 1966 - 1975","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Is The Breaks\u003c\/i\u003e is a 12-track look at the history of the break −\n and they’re all great jazz, funk and soul records. We have not only \nincluded tracks that were sampled back in the first golden age of \nsampling, but also tracks that have been utilised by some of today’s \nbiggest names.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe curtains open with Millie Jackson’s \nversion of ‘If Loving You Is Wrong I Don’t Want To Be Right’ originally a\n hit for Luther Ingram in 1972. This version recorded in Muscle Shoals \nand produced by Brad Shapiro was the opening track of Jackson’s “Caught \nUp” LP released in 1974. The use of a beat with sweeping strings as a \nsample, usually at a slow to medium tempo, as pioneered by the Wu-Tang \nClan, seems to be especially in vogue at the moment. ‘If Loving You Is \nWrong I Don’t Want To Be Right’ has been used over 50 times over the \nlast few decades and was sampled in 2023 by NLE Choppa on ‘Pistol \nPaccin’’. A similar sound is culled from Debbie Taylor’s 1969 track \n‘Let’s Prove Them Wrong’ which was sampled in 2021 by JID on his cut \n‘2007’. It was also used in 2023 on ‘Release Me’ by Nasty C.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf \nthis suggests that sampling can be fashion-led, another example is \nLittle Ann’s ‘Deep Shadows’. Ann was a Detroit singer who released only \none single − 1968’s Going Down A One-Way Street (The Wrong Way) produced\n by Dave Hamilton for Ric-Tic Records − but left a handful of soul \nmasterpieces in the vault. While two of those − ‘What Should I Do?’ and \n‘Who You Trying To Fool?’ − are up-tempo northern soul dancers, the \ndowntempo ‘Deep Shadows’ is atmospheric, with a plodding beat, memorable\n vibes and piano parts. Finally released in 1998, it has since been \nsampled dozens of times by artists like Grand Puba on ‘Think Of U’ \n(2016), Loyle Carner on ‘You Don’t Know’ (2019), and more recently in \n2024 by Your Old Droog’s on ‘DBZ’, featuring Madlib, Denzel Curry and \nWu-Tang Clan’s Method Man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of hip-hop’s greatest producers is \nDJ Premier of Gang Starr, whose beat picking is exemplary and the way he\n uses those beats raises him above almost all his peers. Take his \ndeployment of Joe Simon’s ‘Drowning In The Sea Of Love’, which he edited\n and manipulated to form the hook of Gang Starr’s 1997 single ‘You Know \nMy Steez’. He was also the first producer to sample Billy Garner’s \nDetroit street funk cut ‘I Got Some’ which went on to be sampled time \nand time again. From the same Motor City studio − Dave Hamilton’s − came\n Chico \u0026amp; Buddy’s ‘Can You Dig It?’ which was one of several samples \non House of Pain’s 1992 hit ‘Jump Around’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClassic golden age \nsamples are present in Lowell Fulsom’s ‘Tramp’, which has been sampled \nover 50 times including by the Wu-Tang Clan and EPMD, and the Fatback \nBand’s ‘Gotta Learn How To Dance’ which was used by Kool G Rap and DJ \nPolo on the tough rap of ‘Streets Of New York’ in 1990. For dance music \nfans it was also the sound of Groove Armada’s ‘My Friend’ in 2001. \nAnother UK dance hit sample is Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie’s ‘Heavy Soul \nSlinger’ which was used by the Prodigy on their 1995 hit ‘Poison’ and by\n Massive Attack on their 1998 track ‘Mezzanine’. Lonnie Liston Smith’s \nbeautiful ‘Summer Nights’ has been sampled mainly in dance music by \nartists such as Moody Man and the Swedish House Mafia. New Orleans \nsinger Tami Lynn’s version of the Doors ‘Light My Fire’ was sampled by \nmusician, producer and DJ Howie B on ‘Sore Brown Eyes’ (1997) and also \nby the Dilated Peoples on ‘Triple Optics’ (1998). Gil Scott-Heron’s \nharrowing tale of drug addiction, ‘Home Is Where The Hatred Is’, from \nhis 1971 LP “Pieces Of A Man” was sampled on the Kanye West and Common \ncollaboration ‘My Way Home’ from West’s “Late Registration” album \nreleased in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst the music on \u003ci\u003eThis Is The Breaks\u003c\/i\u003e has \nbeen sampled to construct brilliant new songs the originals have stood \nthe test of time. In fact, someone, somewhere in the world is probably \nslipping some of this music into a new song right now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, drop the needle and challenge your friends to play a guessing game of who used what sample and when.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BGP","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50412407390539,"sku":"2222754","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/BGPD_1117_THIS_IS_THE_BREAKS_LP_66578694_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726667431","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/this-is-the-breaks-1966-1975","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}