When Breakestra appeared on the scene just at the start of the millenium, they immediately grabbed the attention of longtime hip-hop listeners with their Stones Throw debut, The Live Mix Vol. Two. Reason being, was because like the group’s name suggests, their album was an hour long mix of classic funk and soul breaks [cont.]

        There is an interesting sub-culture among hip-hop fans, one that s mission is to unearth every sample used by their dream team of producers, from Erick Sermon to DJ Shadow to Showbiz to the Dust Brothers. Where the obsession comes from, most likely stems from the fact that hip-hop music was birthed upon the doubling up of [cont.]