Name: Super Breaks, Vol. 2: Essential Jazz, Soul and Funk Breakbeats [Vinyl]
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Super Breaks, Vol. 2

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Album: Super Breaks, Vol. 2: Essential Jazz, Soul and Funk Breakbeats [Vinyl]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Dance to the Drummer's Beat - Herman Kelly & Life	More Info...
2)	Cramp Your Style [Mono Version]	More Info...
3)	Hard Times - Baby Huey	More Info...
4)	Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalmistic - Isaac Hayes	More Info...
5)	Be Thankful for What You Got - William Devaughan	More Info...
6)	You're Gettin' a Little Too Smart [Mono Version] - the Detroit Emeralds	More Info...
7)	Unhooked Generation - Freda Payne	More Info...
8)	Heaven and Hell Is on Earth	More Info...
9)	Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth - 24-Carat Black	More Info...
10)	Our Generation - Ernie Hines	More Info...
11)	Breakdown, Pt. 2 - Rufus Thomas	More Info...
12)	Papa Was, Too - Joe Tex	More Info...
13)	Just a Groove in G [Mono Version]	More Info...
14)	Kool Is Back - Funk Inc	More Info...
15)	Joyous - Pleasure	More Info...
16)	Put Your Love (In My Tender Care) - the Fatback Band	More Info...
17)	I Like It - the Emotions	More Info...
18)	Funk It Up	More Info...

Album: Super Breaks, Vol. 2: Essential Jazz, Soul and Funk Breakbeats [Vinyl]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Dance to the Drummer's Beat - Herman Kelly & Life	More Info...
2)	Cramp Your Style [Mono Version]	More Info...
3)	Hard Times - Baby Huey	More Info...
4)	Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalmistic - Isaac Hayes	More Info...
5)	Be Thankful for What You Got - William Devaughan	More Info...
6)	You're Gettin' a Little Too Smart [Mono Version] - the Detroit Emeralds	More Info...
7)	Unhooked Generation - Freda Payne	More Info...
8)	Heaven and Hell Is on Earth	More Info...
9)	Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth - 24-Carat Black	More Info...
10)	Our Generation - Ernie Hines	More Info...
11)	Breakdown, Pt. 2 - Rufus Thomas	More Info...
12)	Papa Was, Too - Joe Tex	More Info...
13)	Just a Groove in G [Mono Version]	More Info...
14)	Kool Is Back - Funk Inc	More Info...
15)	Joyous - Pleasure	More Info...
16)	Put Your Love (In My Tender Care) - the Fatback Band	More Info...
17)	I Like It - the Emotions	More Info...
18)	Funk It Up	More Info...

Performer Notes

Like volume one of Super Breaks, this features funk songs from the late '60s to the late '70s that have been sampled for hip-hop productions. Whether that's the launching point of your interest in this material or not, it can be enjoyed as a crawl through some underexposed vintage funk music, some by fairly famous artists, some by unknowns. Actually, William De Vaughan's "Be Thankful for What You Got" was a megahit, but that's the only track of the sort on the CD (though Tex's "Papa Was, Too" was a fairly big R&B single). Isaac Hayes, Freda Payne, Rufus Thomas, Joe Tex, the Fatback Band, the Detroit Emeralds, and the Emotions are all heard from, though the tracks bound to arouse the greatest pique from collectors are the ones no one's really heard, like Baby Huey's cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Hard Times." Some of this is only average stuff for the style, to be honest, but there are more exciting tracks as well, like Payne's "Unhooked Generation," which will please anyone who liked "Band of Gold," even if it never got even a thousandth of the attention. All the People's "Cramp Your Style" and Wilbur Bascomb and the Zodiac's "Just a Groove in G" are decent obscure early-'70s funk workouts, of the kind that fill up those compilations of artists who James Brown worked with or produced, though Brown didn't happen to collaborate with these folks. Detailed liner notes explain which hip-hoppers used bits of these songs in later days, for those who are interested. [This U.K. import is not available for sale in North America.] ~ Richie Unterberger