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Mixtapes: 100 Breaks – Hip Hop Breaks & Samples (2006) DarkSide Crew Mixtape (2006) Young Salemme Mixtape (2006) Science Skateboards Promo Mix – Download (2006) Book of Breaks: 100 Breaks Part II – (Coming Soon Fall 2006)
This afternoon, while giving a coworker a ride in my car, it became blatantly apparent how strange and obscure my musical tastes have somehow become. Immediately upon starting my engine, Diplo & Tripledouble’s entitled AEIOU vol. 2 break mix began playing and funky soul organ music was blaring out of the Olds. Both she and … Read more
In order to save valuable time and money, I like to be able to use each and every resource possible when I’m out searching for vinyl . Back in the day I used to walk around with a tiny notepad in my back pocket, nowadays I use the Sprint PPC 6700 cell phone instead. It … Read more
Check out this promo video for the Kings of Diggin’ compilation featuring Kon & Amir along with DJ Muro. Kon speaks on some of his adventures in record digging which include face masks, crack rock and rare $500 gems.
About a year ago I went through a bit of a strange phase where I felt the need to hunt down every single beat making video that I could find on the net. Like many of my endless obsessive hunts, I took this to the absolute extreme and ended up having to eventually purchase a … Read more
It is fairly tough to find decent information about diggin’ and sampling and I usually can’t stand to read sholarly material about Rap/Hip Hop by such people as Sociologists or Ethnomusicologists. However, despite moments of cringing, such as the author definition of a “break” and what “digging in the crates” means, Making Beats by Joseph … Read more
Beat Diggin’ is a must for all of you that have been looking for some good record diggin or production videos. It’s actually only about 30 minutes long, but it’s jam packed with record digging goodness and is heavily focused on mid 90’s underground legends such as DITC, Da Beatminers, along with a couple of … Read more
A couple of months back I found myself debating with a coworker the finer points of Hip Hop, all-time greatest albums and a bunch of other things that could never fully be settled for any reasonable period of time. Like the usual banter it ended up going on and on with no end in sight, … Read more
Another shout to my man Trends for putting me on to this breaks/rare grooves thread that somehow got started! This one is offering downloads of Demon Fuzz, Fela Kute, Magnum, David Axelrod, Cannonball Adderley, and Harlem River Drive. Ahhh man!!