Heavenly Break... Reupped

Eli Escobar: Heavenly Break (AIFF)

Late Xmas gift by the man himself. You won't believe how many requests I got for this this year, just because I once posted it after Eli's original link had died.

I'm Late...

I know I'm late with this, but forgive me, I've been knee deep into festival business and haven't had any time to spend on the blog really. Anyway... Bladerunners' interview with DJ Riz is essential reading so make sure to check it out. Also make sure to DL his classic Westwood Show mix from 1994 as it's still SICK.

Deep In Brooklyn

From rap to dancehall to house, all in all Big Beat was a real solid label through most of the 1990's. Some of my favorite things are the handful of party breaks they put out and as far as I'm concerned the Deep In Brooklyn mix of Kenny Dope's Supa is still one of the dopest in the genre. Dancehall vocals over rap beats always work for me and the Louie Rankin loop here is especially addictive.
Kenny Dope presents The Mad Racket: Supa (Deep In Brooklyn Mix)(1991)

Heavenly Break

As simple as it is I think this is one of the very few timeless new things I found on the blogs ever. I kinda forgot about it too, until B.Cause played it last Saturday. Eli originally posted this in August '07, but the link is still up so here we go.

Ok so that Zshare wasn't co-operating, here's a re-up.
Eli Escobar: Heavenly Break (192)
(click to preview or right click save as to DL)

Freshest Jam

Freshest Jam and the rest of Swedish Brandy releases now available for purchase at all major digital stores.

Six Million Ways To Die

Funkmaster Flex: Six Million Ways To Die (1993)

BONUS:
Another two killer party breaks with big dancehall loops.
If anybody knows anything about the New Stile jam please get at me. It's from an old UK white label with no info whatsoever and doesn't really show up on Google either.

DJ Eclipse: Blunted (1996)

Unknown: New Stile (1994?)

Funky Sensation

The definition of a classic.
Gwen McCrae: Funky Sensation (1981)

BONUS:
An essential MAW party break, Funky Sensation with a Hihache loop.
Masters At Work: Get Up (1994)

Rude Rydims

Before Jigmastas and way before his later house career I knew DJ Spinna as the other half of Rude Rydims. The other half was this dude called Nkansa. They put out 2 hot party records in the mid-90's and did some cool remix work as well.

Rude Rydims: Everybody Bounce (1995)
from Rude Rydims Experiment
Rude Rydims: You Could Even Dance (1995)
from Rude Rydims Experiment II

BONUS:
Capleton: Tour (Rude Rydims Bonus Mix)(1994)

Everybody Bounce is my jam, I used to play it A LOT back then and kind of rediscovered it last year. You Could Even Dance is from Volume II which I actually didn't even have until I got one in Tokyo and it's really good too. The Capleton remix is from the same Tour 12" that features another remix by a very young Jonathan "Lil Jon" Smith. I'll post that one later, together with some other dancehall things he did back in the day.

More AV8

Two faves back from the early AV8 days, both based on classic loops. While Handz Up is a straight DJ tool Rainy Dayz actually has a bit of composition to it (and a nice dreamy vibe lol)
Davey Dex: Handz Up (1996)
Steady G: Rainy Dayz (1997)

BONUS:
My favorite party break of 2007, if you missed it first time around you'll still find it useful as Paper Planes is not going anywhere anytime soon (the remix single is finally out in a few weeks)
DJ B Cause: Annie Lennox Paper Planes

Give Da DJ A Break

Back in mid to late 90's I used to buy just about every party record AV8, Nervous and Nubian Crackers put out. At one point I did long sets of nothing but party breaks. Obviously that got tired real quick, but after 10 years I still enjoy playing some of them. Below you'll find a few big AV8's, all from 1996. A few people here call the DJ Eclipse joint "The Worldwide Song", named after a club night we used to do. It was played every single time for years and years.

DJ Eclipse: Dedication
Crooklyn Clan: Juice+Gin
Davey Dex: Bounce