West Street Mob
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In popular music a break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.
In DJ parlance, a break is where all elements of a song (e.g., pads, basslines, vocals), except for percussion, disappear for a time. In hip hop and electronica, a short break is also known as "the drop", and is sometimes accented by cutting off everything, even the percussion. This is distinguished from a breakdown, a section where the composition is deliberately deconstructed to minimal elements (usually the percussion or rhythm section with the vocal re-introduced over the minimal backing), all other parts having been gradually or suddenly cut out. (Brewster and Broughton 2003, p.79)
List of breaks
Mostly based on Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop
- Amen break
- "Soul Pride" by James Brown (1969)
- "Tighten Up" by James Brown (1969)
- "Fencewalk" by Mandrill, used by Kool DJ Herc (ibid)
- "Funky Nassau" by The Beginning of the End (ibid)
- "Funky Drummer" by James Brown (ibid)
- The Meters (ibid)
- Creative Source (ibid)
- The JBS (Toop, 1991)
- The Blackbyrds (ibid)
- Last Poets (ibid)
- "Scratchin'" by Magic Disco Machine (ibid)
- "Scorpio" by Dennis Coffey (ibid)
- "Super Sperm" by Captain Sky (ibid)
- "Mardi Gras" by Bob James, cover of Paul Simon's "Take Me to The Mardi Gras". Used by The Crash Crew on "Breaking Bells (Take Me To the Mardi Gras". (ibid)
- "Soul Makossa" by Manu Dibango (ibid)
- "Easy Dancin'" by Wagadu-Gu (ibid)
- "In The Bottle" by Gil Scott-Heron (ibid)
- "Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band. Used by Kool DJ Herc, The Sugarhill Gang in "Apache", West Street Mob in "Break Dancin' - Electric Boogie". (ibid)
- Mickey Mouse Club Theme (ibid)
- "C Is For Cookie" (ibid)
- TeeVee Toons' Television's Greatest Hits Vols. 1-3 (ibid)
- "Think (about it)" by Lynn Colins
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