Thread by @micro_chop, 1) A Breakbeat Lou/'Ultimate Breaks & Beats' reading list. 2) Ultimate Breaks [...]

1) A Breakbeat Lou/'Ultimate Breaks & Beats' reading list.

2) Ultimate Breaks & Beats: An Oral History

How one essential vinyl collection transformed the sound of music and helped funky beats conquer the world

Article by @unkut via @CuepointMusic

https://medium.com/cuepoint/ultimate-breaks-beats-an-oral-history-74937f932026

3) Amen, Brother: Breakbeat Lou and The Legacy of “Ultimate Breaks and Beats”

Breakbeat Lou is the man behind nearly every classic hip hop beat made from 1986-1997. Sweeney Kovar speaks with the original 45 king.

By Sweeney Kovar via @Passionweiss

https://www.passionweiss.com/2014/11/21/amen-brother-breakbeat-lou-and-the-legacy-of-ultimate-breaks-and-beats/

4) "There’s a certain way that I edited ‘Impeach The President’ – there’s a slight pop on one of the edits that you can hear – and people tend to sample that and they have no idea that I can tell."- Breakbeat Lou

Article by Robbie Ettelson via @unkut

https://www.unkut.com/2015/06/breakbeat-lou-the-unkut-interview/

5) "There’s a lot of stuff that people are looking for, for samples or boom bap drums, that’s simple. I’m looking for… I love structures of records, the full soul of a song that you can really feel."- Breakbeat Lou

By @jamieGroovement via Groovement

https://groovement.co.uk/2015/10/interview-breakbeat-lou-peanut-butter-wolf/

6) "Your mixing skills had to be on point because you had very little pitch control...you had to know how to throw the records in because the slb-101 belt drive would drag if you didn’t know what you were doing."- Breakbeat Lou

Article by @djleanrock

http://www.leanrock.com/2011/in-the-crates-with-breakbeat-lou/

7) "I would put the record in the bathtub with water so the label completely comes off. So, you wouldn’t know anything."- Breakbeat Lou

Article by @justinstrauss1 via @acehotel

http://reader.acehotel.com/music/just-talk-justin-strauss-with-breakbeat-lou-flores/

8) It Only Takes Six Seconds To Hear The World’s Most Sampled Song

Article by @dgoldenberg via @FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-sampled-song-of-all-time/

It Only Takes Six Seconds To Hear The World’s Most Sampled Song

Fans know that when a new Beyoncé, Kanye or Diplo track drops, it will likely contain a musical sample — an instrumental or vocal nugget from a song of yestery…

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-most-sampled-song-of-all-time/

9) "It changed so much that in 1995, in the Billboard top 100 singles chart, of the 52 weeks in the year, for 37 weeks there were records [charted] that sampled something from Street Beat Records."- Breakbeat Lou

Article/video by @SerkoFu via @RBMA

https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/breakbeat-lou

10) “Again, you gotta understand something. Our collection was like a subculture. Only hardcore DJs and hardcore diggers and producers gravitated to them."- Breakbeat Lou

Article by @jamieGroovement via @nowthenmag

https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/breakbeat-lou-breakbeat-lou-ultimate-breaks-and-beats-on-tour

11) Discogs Mix 44- Breakbeat Lou

Article by @shooezgirl via @discogs

https://blog.discogs.com/en/discogs-mix-44-breakbeat-lou/

12) Building Blocks

Article by @monkuno via @waxpoetics

https://songwriting2018.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/ultimate-breaks-beats.pdf

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