Super Breaks Vol 2
The basis of dance music as we know it today can be pretty much traced back to New York City in the 70s.
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Soul
Label: Ace Records
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In Manhattan, disco was taking shape with pioneers such as David Manusso, Walter Gibbons and Larry Levan working on a club atmosphere built on continual music, themed mixes and exclusive extended and dub versions of tunes for the dancefloor. Up in the Bronx a group of young street kids were creating a unique new music out of the best bits of other people's records, because is was a way to keep the best dancers out on the floor, a sure sign that the protagonist was running the best parties. If this had been a bunch of white kids in a University town, arty music journalists would have been writing about the musical equivalent of Burrough's cut-up techniques (and it would probably have been no good for dancing). As it was they were ignored until it was too late to ruin - and the music burst through with a vengeance with the Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight. The idea of the sample was eagerly taken up by the dance community and now the idea of using parts of an old record to create a new one is the building block on which popular music thrives. Whilst the names of the acts that have been involved in significant sample clearance cases is legion - Oasis, the Verve, Madonna, All Saints - and as you can see far removed from the hip-hop hardcore.
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