HIP-HOP
1980
110 BPM
C minor
The Breaks
One of the first hip-hop tracks to be extensively sampled by electronic music producers
Kurtis Blow
"The Breaks"
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Original Track
Kurtis Blow - "The Breaks" (1980)
The original track containing the legendary 4.6-second drum break
Break occurs at 0:30 - 0:34.6
The History
One of the first hip-hop tracks to be extensively sampled by electronic music producers. Showed the circular nature of sampling - hip-hop sampling back into electronic music.
One of the first commercially successful rap singles
Later extensively sampled by UK jungle producers
Shows how hip-hop became a sample source for electronic music
Essential to understanding sampling's circular nature
Who Sampled It
LTJ Bukem
"Horizons"
Logical Progression
1993
Adam F
"Circles"
Colours
1995
💡 This breakbeat has been sampled 2 times in our database
Tags
hip-hop
kurtis-blow
jungle
drum-bass
circular-sampling