THE BEATS!

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        Original Album: 10cc

Weirdo beat from this '70s rock band. It's kind of like a Tarzan vibe, unlike anything I've heard before. Me Mhat: have many wack beats… You Beat Junkie: desperate for whatever I offer… :) Features Kevin Godley on drums.

        Original Album: Toys In The Attic?
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.12

Okay, we're almost through with the white-boy rock beats here, but they're good beats, don't knock 'em! In fact, this one was even good enough for Run DMC, so there! This beat helped to pioneer a beautiful inter-racial musical performance, and...I think I'd better move on, I'm starting to get all teary-eyed... :)

TIGHT! This one's from me, and you know I da man, so get downloadin' and feel this one. From an icy, raw, rad, fresh—that's right, Dave, rad—song with a tighter-than-hell guitar riff that I sampled (so don't you go doin' it, too!), this beat goes rhythmically with the guitar and bass riffs that come in later. Definitely check this one out, with nice, clear snare and bass drums that add a good kick to the mix. Can't relate to the words, though, I got to get me the fuck outta' my job…

        Original Album: Who Put the Bomp?

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Love Drops? Is my mind in the gutter or is Barry Allen's? Because that sounds kinda' naaastay! NOTE: This loop was previously credited to Barry Mann but I've corrected it thanks to info. from Doug Organ.

Boomy bass and understated snare make this loop a little awkward, but it's funky and very usable nonetheless. If you listen hard to the hi-hat, it's damn funky, too, I wish someone had mixed this gem a little better, because it's a really good break. Recommended by Phatso with no exceptions.

        Comps: Breakdown!

Here's the best beat Shadow ever sampled, and maybe the best beat on this page. SOOPER props and shouts out to Erock for submitting this long, FUNKY-ASS solo, heard in its entirety (slightly chopped) in DJ Shadow's "The Number Song" and elsewhere (Organized Konfusion?). I can't say anything more about this PHAT loop right now, because I'm getting too emotional, got a Kleenex, bro? Is it "Tony Avalon" or "Tony Alvon"? PLEASE, anyone with an original, hook up the 411!!

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        Comps: Status Breaks v.1

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        Comps: Vinyl Heaven Vol. 2

This file's got three CUE'd segments for you. They're all basically a conga drum and cowbell groove with a nice chill backbeat. The first is the most simple, the second adds a couple more snare hits, and the third has a fill at the end. Very chill, mellow, and slow. Note: 8bit

        Comps: Heading In The Right Direction

That's What She Said... Okay, that's played-out, I know. This beat sounds like a Mike Clark loop from the Master Drummers v.3 album on Ubiquity, but it's not (duh). Actually, it's almost identical to "God Made Me Funky". Just so you get the vibe… It's also got a really deep, full bass drum that the Master Drummers 3 album sorely lacked. High recommendation on this one from Australia.

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        Original Album: Befour

Nice cowbell on this one, and some latin percussion. You all know this tune, right? This version's percussion-heavy, with a 4-on-the-floor kind of vibe.

        Original Album: AWB ('74)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Chopped due to instrumentation, and features some quiet humming in the background. So, ya got me, it's not a true open break, but then again, neither is...YOUR MOTHER! (What the fuck did that mean?)

        Original Album: Cut The Cake

A classic breakbeat that's been sampled up the ass. This is the one with the krayzee jingle bells shit that makes you want to grab a ho and get busy...I mean the Santa kind of ho. Although, I do live in Oakland, so hos are easy to cum by... But that would be bad, and then Santa would bring me coal for Christmas. You know, one time when I was a kid, my parents gave me coal for Christmas, because of the stupidest thing: they caught me JUST ONCE with a whore in their bedroom when I was 6. Can you believe how much they overreacted? The nerve... And I couldn't even go to kindergarten all the next week because my dad kept her locked in the basement and he thought that I would tell someone or something. God, parents... Oh yeah, this beat was also submitted to us by Erock, who had NOTHING to do with the sick & bizarre comments I just made about that whore who's in my basement... er, I mean WAS in my basement...(shit!).

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.2

This is a major player drumbreak, I can totally picture Ice T cruisin' around with this shit bumpin in his car, making his pink fuzzy dice shake around on the rear-view. Anyway, I like this one, and so you must, too. :)

        Original Album: Kid's Stuff
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.13; Best Of Babe Ruth;

And all this time I thought Babe Ruth was just some fat baseball schmuck. Here ya' go, a nice beat with a good chopability quotient. And especially good if you consider the fact that it was recorded by a fat, dead white baseball player.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.1

Slightly hoopty drum beat used by Special Ed ("special" is right...)and Wu-Tang. It's sort of Green Acres, but it's bumpin' nonetheless…

        Original Album: "Gordon's War" Soundtrack

All right, Mr. Picky, this one isn't a true "open drum break", there's some funky-as-shit guitar in the background, but it's damn quiet in this section, so after months of pondering, I decided to post it. This is one of the most groovin' loops ever, it's kinda' got that "Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" vibe that just chugs along and takes you with it whether you wanna' go or not. This one's a serious swinger. Another phat track, thanks to Davisk. Updated 12/17/2000 to ADPCM (original file submitted by Davisk)

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.5

This one's cold chillin'. I really don't know what much I can say about it, but I really like it, even though it's kinda' straight for my tastes. Anyone who knows anything about this group: lemme' know! This beat has been sampled on: "Talkin' All That Jazz" by Stetsasonic, Coldcut's "Say Kids, What Time is It?", GangStarr's "Speak Ya Clout", Prince's "Get Off", Public Enemy's "Yo! Bum Rush the Show", and Third Bass's "Steppin' to the AM". (Thanks to Supervinyl for tha 411). Note: 256KBits/sec, VERY hi-res.

Nice, simple, old-school big-band break. Just two measures with a single hit on each beat. Ends with a phatty little band hit, too. :)

        Comps: Status Breaks v.1

Philip Davis dropped this one on me, which he snatched from "Status Breaks", and which I think I chopped just a tad. This is a nice loud sampling of this hard one with cool ride hits goin' crazy in the background. Also features a nice little fill in the second half, so don't you go pressin' STOP before the drumma'-man does, ya' hear? Just so you know, Jammy and Philip both submitted this one, but Phil's had more stuff, so I done choosed it.

        Original Album: Can't Buy A Thrill ('72)?

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        Original Album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

This is the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise" track from the original album, complete with fan noise and extra percussion and insanity.

        Original Album: Anthology 2

This is the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise" track from the Anthology 2 album, without fan noise and extra percussion, but WITH great insane screaming at the end!!

        Original Album: Wired
        Comps: Drum Crazy 1

This track is off the "Wired" album by Jeff Beck. This track, however, features Mr. Ed Green bangin' away on them skins in a funky fashion, as I hope you would expect from me by now. This was previously only on the Mystery Drum Loops page, but now it's here, thanks to homey McClellan and his phat collection of McWax. Very nice beat: especially funky and heavily sampled by the big guys. Second verse, same as the first: I am Henry the VIII I am... Well, actually, my real name is Phatso, but you can call me Hank8 (or OctoHank) if you really wanna'. The second half doesn't have that little guitar string-slide sound in it, so it's less distinctive, but you're not gonna' fool anyone into thinking you played it anyway, because if you do, I'm telling, and also, pants on fire hanging on the telephone wire. So there.

        Original Album: Bedlam ('72)
        Comps: Drum Crazy v.2

I refuse to cut up this beautiful, awesome loop, so I .mp2 compressed it instead. This is one of the best tracks that appeared on the Drum Crazy Series, and it's by far one of the best I've ever heard. Now you can hear it uncut and in its original awesome state, complete with boomy bass, great hi hat, and perfect snare. Comes from drummer Cozy Powell (who also played for Jeff Beck), and from an album prodced by Felix Pappalardi of Cream fame. No wonder it sounds so damn good.

You'll never guess who submitted this one, so I'll just have to tell you. It was his majesty, the almighty Erock, peerless library of beats and knowledge. Okay, okay, I'll get my lips off his ass for a minute and tell you about this here loop. Wrote a song about it, wanna' hear it, here it go! Lemme' tell you a story 'bout a loop named Nassau; 'twas funkier than hell, cymbals cut like a band saw... Now you know why I was kicked out of Pharcyde! Anyway (I can rhyme, really I can!) this is a short, 2-second break with nice cymbal and snare work, fast and to-the-point (but not to-the-counterpoint!). Nice one, thanks E.

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I don't know how many £s this one's worth, but it's very snare-happy. I like. A nice, loud snare that seems to be popping in your ear almost every half beat, but it gets away with it because it's so funky and raw sounding, just like many of these beats. You know, I'd like to take this moment to just sit quietly and reflect on how thankful I am to have phat drum loops in my life, each one so unique and funky...(those three periods are me reflecting, by the way). Well, I feel better now, don't you? Check these great, soulful, yet frantically raw, drums and, as always, enjoy.

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Part 1 with crazy "tssslrp!" sound effects.

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Part 2 without the crazy "tssslrp!" sound effects.

Jammy hooks us up again with free shit to soothe the soul. This is a great one to use in your mix. It starts out with a really nice simple bass-hat-snare-hat pattern on a great sounding kit, somewhat similar to "Mixed Up Cup", which you probably know is one of the all-time best loops.

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Very very cool, sounds extremely similar to "Chicken Yellow" by Miami. Here's a couple CUEd parts from a very long break with lots to choose from.

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Never heard it before (if you can believe that), but incredibly nice loop.

        Original Album: Unfinished Business

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Circa 1976-7 funkiness. Good vintage.

        Original Album: Keep On Running?

Another classic, rare break submitted by Erock this one's hard to come by, and worth the search. Phat bass and tight snare set off this wicked, chill groover with double hi-hat hits. This is one of those ultra-usable beats that you could layer on top of anything and make a hit. If you can't use this beat for good, then you're pure evil, man, pure evil. This beat was featured on Bulldog Breaks, by the way, on a track that was VERY deceptively titled "Kimba Zoo". My ass is like Sherlock Holmes and shit solving that baffling enigma of a puzzle...

        Comps: Trippin': The Groove Merchant Compilation

Here's a really long clip from this intro drum break. The whole thing is way off the meters, with distortion up the kazoo. But it's damn funky, of course. It doesn't loop properly because I didn't want to deprive you of the single snare hit at the beginning, so it's one 8th note off from looping right. I'm sure your Cool-Editing ass can fix that ish though!

Another PHATT, PHATT, PHATT one submitted for free, for you, and for me by Jammy, this has been sampled (I think?) on a Bulldog Breaks track, back before Dan Prothero became too good for sampling and moved on to his new galactic undertakings. I'm just playing, Galactic is an awesome band, you should see them live sometime if you can, that drummer (Stanton Moore) can play! (He's one of my people, the pigmentationally-challenged, by the way.) So, in conclusion: Jammy=good; Stanton Moore=good; This beat=good; John Tesh/David Hasselhoff "Best of Christmas Favorites" collaboration album produced by Leonard Nimoy and engineered by William Shatner=BAD. (No, there is no such album, that is one of the prophetic, biblical signs of Armageddon.)

        Original Album: Black Sabbath

Submitted by Jammy, so YOU KNOW IT ROCKS! Several people think it's called "N.I.B.", but it's actually "Behind the Wall of Sleep", so now you can rest easy. I've heard this one before on an awesome mixtape a Sureel friend made for me, and now you can hear it, too. This is obviously a rock-band break, with lots of reverb, a nice snare that stands out, and a kinda thin bass drum that sounds awesome amid the unobtrusive rumble and reverb. Very cool, just like all Jammy's loops. Updated 10/1/99.

Nice fast loop with really tight drums and a prominent double-time hi-hat. Starts and ends with a little band hit and bass drop-off. Dope-diddlyumptious. Dana sez the drummer's name is Raymond Genovese.

Nice tight drums with ride-bell hits on the up-beats and conga drums riffin' quietly throughout. A simple rhythm, but definitely dope, I know you'll dig this one…

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.5

This is one of the most-sampled drumbreaks in history. Check Pharcyde, Naughty By Nature, and all other krayzee shit I ain't never heard of. You GOTSTA DIG THA' SHIT, MAN!

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        Comps: Drum Crazy 1

Another ex-mystery beat, upgraded to full non-mysterious status thanks to Mr. McClellan. This is another rock band, pretty much, but this is a nice, different kinda' beat as far as that sorta' shit goes. It's a slow, chugging groover, one might even describe it as slightly lugubrious at times, but then again, one might be very odd and prone to flights of verbal fancy... I don't really like that he hits the bass drum every time he hits the snare (4-on-the-floor), but I guess that's his style, and that's what makes this beat distinctive, so I won't complain. But, as a side note, you might try filtering out some bass from the snare hits to fix it up a little, but you didn't hear that from me. Oh yeah, a Cue list and Playlist are both set-up already for this track in CoolEdit, just go to the Playlist and press "play".

More props to Erock for this beat, which is unfortunately just a very small snippet of some funky-ass drumming. This beat is VERY similar to "We're So Happy" by Medeski, Martin & Wood (see below), but it's a fraction of the length, and there's a pretty serious cymbal crash running through the whole beat, so that makes it less of a practical loop, and more of a curio. Feel free to peep the raw New Orleans funk, thanks to Erock and Eddie Bo.

From Jammy comes this nice beat with a good metallic-sounding snare...sorta' pops out at 'cha', like President Clinton... It'll add some nice highs to your mix if that's what your mix be lackin'.

This one's pretty damn phat! Great reverb on the set, and a really appealing live sound to it all. Sounds similar to the way the "S.O.U.L." loop does… highly recommended.

        Original Album: Unknown (and it doesn't matter)
        Comps: Unknown (and who the fuck cares?)

Just a quick fill from an extremely bad, non-beat-having piece of shite band. :)

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

Just a nice intro fill to this track…

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

Pretty much exactly the same loop as "Can't You See" by Tower of Power (Dave Garibaldi). So, that said, you know what it sounds like, and you know it fucking rocks.

Beware, this one's a little large (151k), but it's cool and I chopped it up special for your ass, so eat it up and don't complain, there's children starving in Ethiopia, you fat, lazy American consumer! Okay, back to the beat at hand: I chopped it to remove the horns that interrupt the beat, but I recreated it just like it was under the horns so you could hear how phat it was. On the serious tip, please don't use it without my permission, okay? Really nice fill at the end (so don't get bored at around the 6th second and stop it early), and nice chill "Kissing My Love" type drums for the main loop.

        Original Album: Demon In Disguise?
        Comps: Out of the Blues: Best of David Bromberg

Submitted by Jammy, this is off an enigmatic song by the enigmatic David Bromberg, whose music has been described as soul/blues/bluegrass/folk/rock. And the song is about a spineless (literally), seductive female circus freak, my favorite subject... Whoah, someone was smokin' some heavily-controlled substances the night they wrote this one... Anyway, nice bass and snare, if unfortunately obscured by a few too many poorly-placed open hi-hat hits. Check it out, though, it's a good one.

This one is PHAT and crazy, with really nice double-open hi-hat/bass hits at the end (you'll see what I mean). This one's great for choppin' (no, not Chopin, with your classical-music-knowin' ass), so grab a cleaver and get to it! I suggest either Ginsu2000 or CoolEdit, though the latter is preferable for safety reasons.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.19

This is a classic break available now on several comps, but this mix is special (just like me). It's chopped up so that the bicycle horn ain't there no more. Why? Because I didn't like it. I woulda' posted the original, but I don't have it handy, and I'm too damn lazy to go dig up UBB and redo it. Tight beat, though. Nice offbeat accents with the cowbell.

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Really nice one with vocals saying "Ooh… So Fun-ky". Very cool. PLEASE USE PLAYLIST in CoolEdit to listen to this one, it's been CUEd already.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.12; In The Jungle Groove

Perhaps the most sampled drum beat of all time. If you don't already have this in your collection, there's a problem with your priorities. Here it is, though, as heard in hundreds of rap songs and more recently chopped- and sped-up in dozens of jungle jams.

        Original Album: Sex Machine
        Comps: In The Jungle Groove; Kurtis Blow Presents The History Of Rap vol.1

Suggested by Erock, this one you've heard here, there, probably even at a funeral. You can't escape the funk. Clyde lays down (I think) his most impressive performance ever. I mean, just listen to it closely, and you'll wonder, "How the fuck does one man make all those hits on the drum set at once?" Check it, I mean there's a hi-hat and snare hit on every single eighth/sixteenth note (depending on how you count it). God DAMN, Clyde is the man, does anyone know him? Can I meet him? Please? I just want to see him once. If you don't think this is funky, fuck you, motherfucker, you're white beyond hope. Your Wonderbread-Clorox-ass has no bid'ness up on this web site! So stay the fuck out the ghetto, or I'll sick Treach on you!

Submitted by Erock, another James Brown sample, so you know that it's top notch. Here we have a fast, funky, busy loop, courtesy of Jabo Starks, another of JB's funky henchmen. Very groovy, baby!

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.21

I'm not sure, but I'm just gonna' guess that this is Clyde on the skins again, bangin' away and funkier than all hell. This solo is so phat and funky that I had to put the whole thing up here, despite the file size. The whole thing's here in its entirety, so you can listen to it over and over... Clyde is God, that's all there is to say…

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This one's hard. A very funky drum solo, this is just a part, but definitely go grab a record with this track on it. This drummer can blow...I mean, he doesn't really blow, but he does that other stuff that drummers do, um, hitting and stuff…solo follows…

Here's a huge-ass solo from this track. You better thank me for this one, because it's fuckin' huge and awesome!

        Comps: Lift Off! With Apollo Sound

Here's a long one that kind of starts out with some light percussion and builds. It's interesting, though, with a cowbell and some rhythmically different drums. Not your standard drum loop, more of a curio from Hungary.

        Original Album: Buffalo Springfield
        Comps: Forrest Gump Soundtrack

This is the song that was recently butchered for "He Got Game" by Pubic Enema or someone...I forget. You can hear the guitar harmonics a little due to track bleed-through, but this is a nice little slice of whitey funk that could easily add some pizzazz to your pie, if you're into pizzazz, that is...or pie.

        Original Album: Single

Here's another version of this classic intro drumbreak. It's not as amazing as the Lee Dorsey or John Schroeder ones, but it'll add a nice flavor to anything you wanna' add it to. Was there ever an un-funky version of this song recorded?

        Original Album: Sweet Sixteen (12")

You can interpret this one in two ways:
1) As a nice "backwards beat", with the snare hits on the downbeats and the kick drum on the upbeats. All this with a dope ride cymbal keeping it all moving…or 2) As a normal beat. :) You decide.

        Original Album: In My Own Dream

This one's kinda' noisy (that's what happens when you buy at the flea market), but who the fuck cares? Not too much to say here. It's a nice beat, though, with a cool fill at the end. :)

        Comps: Sound Of Funk vol.2

Tribal funk from the Buck-Wild Souls! (No, I just made that up.) This is a sooper raw one that I really like, even with the crazy, incessant conga shit. Nice tambourine, nice snare roll-outs and nice off-beat emphasis on the (sort-of) fill at the end. Good, weird one.

Courtesy of Erock, this beat is dope, man real dope, on the real. Well anyway, I said "toot toot" she said "hey beep beep". Don't know where that came from, but anyway... This beat sounds VERY similar to the "Think" break by Lyn Collins, but it's not. Rhythmically, it's virtually identical, but it don't got no crazy screaming in the background. This one's the bonus break from the remix, according to Erock, but I don't know which remix he means, being so vastly inferior to him in collectinghood. Check this one for sure, you'll leave with a smile. Don't forget to drop Erock a line and thank him for all this free dope shit!

Here's another clip of this track, from Philip Davis, this one's off a 12" record called JB's 40th Anniversary. I suspect that it's the same as the one above, except it's slowed down so it really sounds awesome. So, perhaps 'twas redundant of me to put both here, but hey, whoever said that being redundant was a crime? Who ever said that being redundant was a crime? Who ever said that...

Erock strikes again, this time with an exclusive, chopped beat from JB sideman, Bobby Byrd. I have this song myself, and I don't know how Erock cut out all the guitar like that, but I'm glad he did. This remix sets the drums free to breathe on their own after decades of being trapped behind the virtual bars that were a guitar loop! The guitar loop, actually, is pretty phat, too, but you know me: I've got a thing about drums...

        Original Album: Black Byrd ('72)
        Comps: Blue Break Beats v.1

Harvey Mason on the drums. This is a nice loop with that super-produced Mizell Bros. sound we all recognize from Donald Byrd's later albums. Good shit, nice sound, and some funky bongos. It's all CUEd for you by Mr. Kakon.

        Comps: Blue Break Beats v.1

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Harvey Mason at it again.

Submitted by Erock, this beat features a killer hi-hat that could hold the whole 4.284 seconds together on its own if it wanted to, and a high bass that kicks with the best of 'em. A couple measures here, and a good selection of stuff to chop and remix: in short, a great beat. Erock for president!

I cut this one a bit, but I didn't change the rhythm of it, just cut out some instrumentation or something. So, here's one that's gonna' need more chopping anyway to get rid of the loud, monosyllabic gruntings of Mr. Campbell. Starts out with a nice fill, goes into a nice loop with clapping (and aforementioned monosyllabia), and pretty much makes you think to yourself, "Self, what the fuck is 'Campbell Lock' supposed to mean?" Don't ask me, I just work here…

Submitted by Jammy, A.K.A. "I Have So Many Beats, I Got Bruises All Over My Body!" A.K.A. "I Got So Many Beats, My Ass Is Like An Omelette and Shit..." A.K.A. "Shut the fuck up already, you weirdo, and get down to bid'ness!" Okay, point taken. Starting out with a nice guitar drop-off, this is the kind of beat that goes through my head all day, I tap it on desks, tables, steering wheel... It's catchy and funky, and, by the way, I don't recommend tapping beats on other people, I learned that the hard way last night and ended up in a damp alley with nothing on me but a garbage can lid and some cabbage. :)

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

Fuck yeah! Starts out with four beautiful descending tom-tom flams, then kicks off with a crash cymbal. There's a few dope loops to choose from here, but they’re all funky as hell with nice double-time hi-hat hits and great snare work.

        Comps: Deja Vu

VERY funky, New Orleans groove from funky (though repetitive) Chuck Carbo. This has been used by DJ Greyboy and myself, but mine sounded better... :)

        Original Album: The Cross & The Switchblade Soundtrack
        Comps: Drum Crazy 2

From Dave's Records comes this real short, but funky one from a movie that sounds pretty damn funky itself. Ya' see, it's the touching (and poignant) story of a young kid (God, played by Ralph Macchio), who has to decide between saving the world or running with a biker gang (played by the New Kids on the Block). In the end, as we know, humanity is saved, and Ralph Macchio is crucified, which just goes to show you: maybe he should have chosen the biker gang instead. (Yeah yeah, I know, I'm goin' to Hell...) But seriouosly, Erik Estrada is in this movie…all the more reason to skip it and just get the soundtrack!

        Original Album: Single 45

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Just a simple bass and snare loop, but sounds mighty tasty! Highly recommended by Dave's Records, so you know it's dope!

This Part is just a nice, loud Shaft kinda hi-hat, with some nice, deep congas over it. This would be a nice addition to many other drumbeats, if you want some more percussion isht in the mix. There's an intro-fill into the next Part at the very end, so you may want to download both parts if you want ALL the pieces from Part 2, even if you're not interested in Part 1. Confused? Good, me too.

Like "Cookies", here's a good example of a very nice drumbreak that has the drums mixed waay too low and the congas (they're cool, don't get me wrong) mixed way-the-fuck too loud, completely drowning out the funky drums except for the hi-hat. I don't know what to say, it brings tears to my eyes, skillet. Oh, my bad, I forgot I was fixin' some chopped onions (my favorite poverty main dish) for dinner (I'm on a tight budget, and onions were on sale today). Yumm, nothin' like fresh-chopped raw onions, lightly salted, with a dash of onion skin. And I'm living in half a soggy refrigerator box in someone's dumpster, I hope the garbage men don't come again tomorrow morning...that hurt last time. :)

A swing beat, with just shakers, bass drum, and hi hat. Nice weird finger-chime sounding thing makes it really unique and possibly a nice addition to a track.

Just a weird little percussion break from a Chicago album. It features a shaker, a clave, and maybe a guiro? Just real short...kinda unique, though, so it caught my ear.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.20

This one's got some of that funky bongo action, too, but this one is probably the least annoying of all the bongo grooves. In fact, you may not even notice them at all. I like this beat, though, and since I'm such a nice guy, and since I'm so funky-to-the-core, I even threw in a nice little fill at the end for you. Now you can have your fill and eat it, too.

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

A nice little snare fill introduces this one, then a single ride hit lets you know it's about to drop. A fast, hot little loop, almost exactly like a faster version of Jimmy McGriff's "The Worm".

        Original Album: Lot Of Bottle ('70)
        Comps: Sack Of Soul v.?

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        Original Album: Rich Man

Slow simple one, but those are always the best, aren't they? Very vibrant highs on the hi-hat and snare, and a relatively high bass drum. Cool band…John Cuffley on the set.

Davisk strikes again, this time with an extremely slow, bassy loop that sneaks in a little bass guitar in the end (I know, I'm slippin' here). Anyway, this is a really nice loop with lotsa' bass, some ultra-quiet bongos, and a totally chilled-out vibe.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.18

Very interesting and unique. Starts out with a fill and then goes into this percussioney (differently tuned cowbells? Or maybe agogos?) break.

        Original Album: Evolution
        Comps: Kurtis Blow Presents The History of Rap vol.1

Here's the entire 50-second break…

        Original Album: Evolution
        Comps: Kurtis Blow Presents The History of Rap vol.1

You'll remember this one from "Bust A Move" by Young MC. Now he's Old MC, but this beat still kicks. This one's so pumped-up and pulsing, it's like the Frugal Gourmet at a Boy Scouts meeting...god DAMN, that's a scary image.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.6

Take a Coffey Break, another one with bongos-a-plenty. But this one has weird bongos, so at least it's a little different, and a nice intro fill, too. As you would imagine, it's somewhat similar to Scorpio, but it's inferior, because it's just the Son Of... It's hard to compare to Scorpio, though, you will be pleased with this one. Updated 11-27-99 to include the whole 28-second break!

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.

Slow with nice tambourine and bass drum. It's a goddamn duck-billed phat-a-pus! I think it's actually "(Runaway) I Wouldn't Change A Thing", but I put the second half in parentheses instead so it would alphabetize better.

Majorly chopped, you can still hear the remnants of the "OOF"s on each major snare hit, but it gives it a nice unique sound, though it's clear that it has been edited. Tough shit, though home run, because you'll download it and like it! There are children starving for breakbeats in Ethiopia, so eat up!

Jammy sent me this Rolling Stones cover track, performed by the one and only Collection (didn't it sound like I knew who they were there? I don't). No cowbell in this mix, but a nice, prominent, metallic hi-hat and un-trebly, solid bass and snare hits. A good straight, normal beat for those of you who are into that; and a good crazy, swingy beat for those of you who are deaf.

        Original Album: Think (About It)
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.16

Oh, shnap! This is the joint! We've all heard this one before… I hadn't posted it before, since it had the screams in it, but fuck it. This loop is so goddamn phat, I couldn't NOT post it!! So, here it is, in all its screaming glory!

        Original Album: Think (About It)
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.16

We all know this track, right? Well, here's just the very, very unique tambourine loop from the middle.

Jammy, Jammy, Jammy, where fore are't thou Jammy? Thou are't but an electronic acquiantance, a mere blip on the computer screen of life, yet you bring me such joy, such glee... God DAMN, you know what that means: getting sleepy! Well, I'll stick it out and perservere with the obligatory description: fast, very quiet, recorded a little hot, and with a nice low-tom fill at the end, unlike any I've heard before. Nice double-time hi-hat and one open hit, in case you're searching for one to use. That just about does it, then, see what you think, and I'll go get some ravioli and listen to some tunes.

This one's got some instrumentation over it, which is unlike the standard fare around here, but there's some tight drum shit goin' on here that I just had to share with y'all. A syncopated, Clyde Stubblefield sorta' beat here keeps the groove in between a nice guitar hit and some "UH!"s from Mr. Colt. Check Part 2 below for some great excerpts from later on in the song!

Here's a selection of drum clips from later on in the song, spliced together in my usual, seamless manner! :) Nice Steve Colt-isms in the background, and the same funky-ass drums as Part 1, but with more variety, a nice fill that I think I mighta' cut up to make, and twice the length. Great tune.

        Original Album: Machine Gun
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.16

The first half of this long break is a funky "Na Na Na Na"-sounding beat, very heavy, and with people screaming "Ho!" on the first beat of every measure (kind of annoying, but definitely funky). I like it a lot. The second half of this beat still has the "Ho"s every measure but is a lot more interesting and syncopated, kind of like a DJ Shadow remix of the first half. And there's a great, totally ahead-of-tempo 1-2-3-4 countdown at the end that just emphasizes how excited these people were when they recorded this: so much so that they had to scream "Ho" about 50 times and then mess up the end of a cool drum break because they just couldn't wait to get to that next measure!! :)

        Original Album: School's Out

This is probably my favorite beat in this batch [originally posted 9-24-98] next to "New Heavenly Blue". The drums just sound awesome, that's the main thing. The beat isn't that innovative or something, but the drums just ring when homeboy hits 'em, and it makes me happy, man, happy: Happy to be an American, happy to be alive, and happy to have CoolEdit! If only Hitler could have heard this beat one time so long ago, perhaps we never would have had to sit through "Schindler's List"…

        Original Album: I Am What I Am
        Comps: Self Portrait/I Am What I Am

Here's the second funky break from the Ruth Copeland album, not alphabetically, but in the order I posted them. This one's nice, especially with the CUEd playlist that's setup in CoolEdit. It's like the opening drums in "Fortunate Son" by Credence, but without the bass playing over them. Very simple, with a nice fill that you could use elsewhere easily, and the kind of drums that are perfect for chopping or using as a basis for layering other samples.

        Original Album: I Am What I Am
        Comps: Self Portrait/I Am What I Am

This is one I heard about from raremusic.com, who always managed to come up with the obscure, choice funky shit. You'd never have guessed from their name, though, huh? Well, this is a break on a folky track off a folky album. I was hoping it would be a lot funkier, since Parliament was supposed to be doing backup, but it's fairly un-funky, as these things go. A very nice drumbeat, though, worth buying the CD for alone. The second half has a little muted guitar fuckin' 'round in the back, but it's mellow and unobtrusive, so I ain't e'en 'bout to complain. Plus there's a tight-ass fill at the end, very simple, but I love this fill, and all others like it. Simple, yet funky. As the world should be, am I wrong? Nice one, thanks Raremusic! Now if I could just get you to sell me your copy of "Who Got The Number" by B.Y. & The Turnettes…

This one was suggested by Erock. This one's a nice fast groover that makes you wanna' get up and scream, "I'm Black and I'm Proud!" But you probably shouldn't do that. You're not black... To paraphrase the words of Erock, "...like 'Tighten Up'; this one's basically a version of this song with organ instead of vocals. (Dyke & the Blazers also do a version of 'Tighten Up' with a breakbeat)." There ya' go, beat mining tips and 411 from a guy who knows his shit.

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - A couple different parts spliced together since the beginning has a nice hall effect and then it fades out.

        Original Album: Images [Blue Thumb, '78]
        Comps: Way Back Home [box set]

This is probably the smallest file on this whole site… I like this little fill, though, it's that classic "ba-dum-dum" kind of lead-in. Very cool. However, it's off of the "Images" ablum, which is available in quintuplicate at any garage sale, any time, any day for a nickel. :( That's right, it's not their best album…

        Comps: Sound Spectrum

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Fast and furious with all da' cymbal you can handle, hombre!

Here's one I ain't heard of before, thanks to Drusca, the patna'-man! A little fast one here, snare-wise, with a metronome-like hi-hat that keeps the shit chugging along and sets off the snare work nicely. Check Part 2 below for more...

Part 2 of this Drusca-submission is similar to Part 1, but without the fancy snarework. It's just a simpler, more standard loop, so in case you liked the drum-sounds in Part 1, check this one and throw 'em together for pure percussion ecstacy! (?)

Check this one for seriously high-pitched bass drum. I don't know what the drummer was thinking, but he's about to bust that head by the sound of it! Erock sent me this one, just so you'll know who to thank when you download it and drool all over your new shoes.

        Original Album: Sweet As Funk Can Be

Submitted by Erock, this is a great one from an album he claims is easy to find...nope. Still want the album, still can't find it! Good, unique beat with good tonality, light open hi-hats on every major snare hit, but not cumbersome. Moves along nice and definitely is sweet as funk can be.

        Original Album: Prelude

Awesome cut with Billy Cobham on the skins. The second half is more crazy, with latin percussion up in 'nere!

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS, .mp2-compressed file!

        Original Album: Whirlwinds ('74)

This loop is nice! Great sounding drums with a chill bongo/conga loop over it. Nice bass, snare, hi-hat…it's all nice!

        Original Album: Derek And The Dominos In Concert ['73]

This track is really noisy, since it was recorded live at a concert, but it's one of my favorite drum loops anyway. The ride cymbal is mellow and just keeps it all moving, while James Gordon (the drumma man) throws in some really effective open hi-hat hits to keep it fresh. Very funky, and if you clean it up a little, it'll kick major ass. Tips: layer a nice bass drum hit over all the current ones, EQ out some of the mud, and add some treble.

        Original Album: Unknown, On LP, NOT SINGLE
        Comps: Red Hot Beats

This is often mistakenly credited as the beat from the 45-SINGLE version of "Funky Worm". However, many beatheads suspect that Westbound Records just spliced this beat onto the beginning of this song from "You're Getting a Little Too Smart" by the Detroit Emeralds (from the ALBUM version (not the single) of that song, also on Westbound). (YES, it's confusing.) If you listen to the Detroit Emeralds track, you can hear that the drums stay the same and sound indentical throughout the entire track… In any case, this is one of those "gotta' have it" beats that you hear everywhere constantly and never get sick of. If this beat were any funkier and phatter, they'd have to re-name it Dom DeLouise. Hardcore bass, hi-hat, and snare, all you could ever ask for in a drum loop. Another beat you gotta' get on wax or CD. If not, go to your room and sit in the corner until you decide to buy it! Anyone care to donate a copy of the "You're Getting A Little Too Smart" album? Please...?

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.5

Is it "Hit And Miss" or "Hit Or Miss"? Do you care? I'm just curious, so if you know, share the wealth, homey. This is another one that's fully CUEd for CoolEdit, with an intro fill and a couple parts up in 'nere. It's got that funky bongo action goin', that seems to be the trend with this batch of breaks, but who are you to complain? They're all free! So, I'm not all that hot on this one, but it is nice, as are almost all drums. I kinda' wish I had sampled the crazy "la la la la" part that comes in after the drums, that's the best part of the whole song: totally retarded. :)

        Original Album: Dog Soldier

I love this beat! Really low bass drum and nice sounding set. This is a longish break, but it's worth the download.

        Original Album: Dog Soldier

PHAT PHAT PHAT!!!! If you ever see this album for sale, grab it. This bass drum is like buttah! It's lower than a midget in the Grand Canyon… it's deeper than…well, it's deeper than a midget in the Grand Canyon as well. :) Definitely download this one, and check the double-time hi-hat on this slow, deliberate groover. Very noisy thanks to the flea market, but I ain't complainin'.

        Original Album: Scorpion: Live At The Cadillac Club

Here's a classic break courtesy of Leo Morris, A.K.A Idris Muhammad. Seems like this cat played on every single Blue Note album between 1967 and 1971, and that's good news, because Idris is largely the key to why those albums are all so damn funky. This track features the man working out on the set in a nice syncopated beat, with a nice live room sound (it was recorded live at the Cadillac Club). You just can't fade Idris, so I gave you three whopping clips and a phat solo break. See below for lots more.

        Original Album: Scorpion: Live At The Cadillac Club

Another funky clip from this master drummer…

        Original Album: Scorpion: Live At The Cadillac Club

The third of the small clips, this one's like part one but without the screaming. Next up's the solo.

        Original Album: Scorpion: Live At The Cadillac Club

This is a few parts from the solo toward the end of the song. It's a great solo, because it just keeps going on and on and on...so there's lots to grab and use. There's a few pieces cut together here that I thought you'd like. Check this album, though, for some classic Idris Muhammad riffs (and classic Lou Donaldson as well).

        Comps: Blue Break Beats vol.3

Basically, this is a pretty hoopty drumbeat. Don't take me wrong, it has been sampled a lot and sounded cool, but as it is, it's kinda'...well, different. It's one of a kind, though, that's for sure, ain't no other beat like it. It kinda' takes that "Theme From The Planets" snare drum shit and just rolls with it...literally. I can't diss Idris, though, he 'da man, and this is a tight beat, I'm just fuckin' around. I think it sounds really good in lo-res, better than the original sounds, but here's the hi-res, by popular demand.

IDRIS! Moving along through Lou Donaldson's musical safari of funky wildlife, we come now to the petting zoo, where you'll find the funkiest turtle you ever saw. It's whole job is just to sit there all day and let little motherfuckers climb all over it like jack-asses. Same thing with this beat, except instead of letting little motherfuckers climb all over it like jack-asses, it fucks like a mother and jacks asses, baby, yeah! Man, am I weird, I even surprise myself with this shit sometimes... Anyway, this is a fast beat with LOTS of snare and tom hits scrunched into a small space, puntuated by a couple bass drum hits from a bass drum that sounds like it is being mic'd by a Sony My-First-Walkman Microphone or something...Fisher Price maybe. The second half of the beat has lots more accents and creativity, but, at its core, based on the same basic underlying rhythmic principles upon which the prior was based. I like this one more, but it's too busy to use for a main loop over and over, unless you're a mother-fucking, ass-jacking, funky giant sea turtle or something.

        Original Album: Takin' It To The Streets ('76)

Here's what Sonic has to say about this one:
"Here it is...I'm giving you the whole she-bang. Starts with just the drums, and then a groovy conga comes in. Both are panned to the right and left (this is the 70's ...you know), so it's possible to pull them apart and do whatever with them...I can't believe this beat hasn't been plundered by a zillion people. I think it's a great loop."

        Original Album: Single; Great Googa Mooga?

As heard in "Just a Friend" by the Biz. That guy's a freak, but damn he's got some tight samples.

Another Dorsey groove from my main Dorsey source, Drusca. This is a standard swing beat, but the snare is REALLY metallic and nice, in case you want to snatch it up and plop it into another loop or something. Not that there's anything wrong with this beat as-is, but just that...well, there's something wrong with it. :)

Drusca DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS!

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        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.25

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Is this the correct title, I mean is Makeup one word, two words, or hyphenated? And it IS Lemont Dozier, right? Damn, I'm clueless!

Nice, simple, and hardcore one from this lesbian biker gang. Did I get your attention there? Good, now put on your thinking caps, because this will require your full attention. "Dyke" is a derogatory term, and I don't EVER want to hear you use it again! Instead, try, lesbo, butch, carpet-licker... Um, I'll just move along before I get arrested or something...Okay, nice tight drums here, with a pingy sound (you ever try describing 200 drum loops before, it's hard to be original after awhile!), and fast. You'll probably want to slow these down a bit if you're gonna' use them for anything (which you should), but they're nice as they are. Another sound file submitted by the always-generous, omniscient Erock.

        Original Album: Lee Michaels
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.17

This is an extremely hardcore beat, very unique sounding drums, and would be a chore to mix into a nice track. I really like this beat, though, so I took the time to chop it a little for you so it'd loop well. I didn't fuck it up, don't worry!! Enjoy!

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.4

Here's a great uptempo cowbell-havin' happy drumbreak from a crazy screaming kind of song. They musta' been having a phat party when they recorded this shit...I always wonder how they get the cows to play the cowbells so well...Tequila?

        Original Album: Long Run ['79]

Think big! Think loud! Now turn that volume UP!! No, it's not all THAT, but it's a cool, loud, straight, fast rock fill. :)

        Original Album: The Need Of Love

Groovy, baby! Shaker shaker shaker! I think every piece of percussion these cats own is getting used here… Nice loop, definitely funky.

        Original Album: Discovery ('79)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Very nice big, loud one, extremely similar to the Sgt. Pepper's Reprise with the cool shaker-sounding percussion along with the hi-hat.

        Original Album: Go Moog [Smash Hits Moog Style]

Dan sez: "A break from the LP "Go Moog! [smash hits moog style]", a record full of bad songs played on a bunch of moogs." I like this one, it's simple, but possibly usable.

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

This is an incredibly dope break! It starts out a little uneven (the two drummers don't start exactly together…), but then it just jams! It's a slow groove with some (I think) timbales goin' off on this simple funky pattern, with a shaker going the whole time…all this over a funky trap kit loop. Definitely the bomb, and with a dope fill at the end!

        Original Album: Love Beach
        Comps: Drum Crazy 1

A TOTAL rip-off of "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin, but entirely without the fluidity and groove of the latter. Honestly, it sounds like a half-assed attempt to copy the beat directly without delay effects, but rather by playing each of the delayed hits, and this just don't cut it. I'm sure this is a cool beat, but not if you've heard "Levee". This is from ELP's "Love Beach" album, and shows, to me, the band in its bad years. They had previously released awesome records with innovative ideas and themes, including a mind-blowing pipe organ solo and oft-imitated drum solo in "The Three Fates". You'll have to pardon my harshness on this one, but this beat is merely a cheap imitation by a once-pioneering band that was just starting to lose it here...sorry, that's just my opinion: deal.

Highly recommended by Dave's Records, so you know it's dope!

        Original Album: Sesame Street Fever

This one's really fast and very odd. I grabbed it off of a Sesame Street album. If you slow it down to about 125-130%, though, it's actually kinda phat! Weird… Features Richard Crooks on set & George Devons on percussion, if it matters…

GREAT, live-sounding drums that ring! Great! Here's an obscure little groover with a fast tempo and some crazy drums that refuse to calm down, just like me. Over 8 seconds total, with a damn nice funky fill at the end. Check it and thank the lord for Ernie & The Top Notes…

        Comps: Trippin': The Groove Merchant Compilation

6.426 seconds of pure funk fo' ya' ears. It's one of those beats that sounds better in lo-res, for some mystical reason... Anyhoo, here's another wicked track from a Luv 'N Haight comp ("Trippin'"), and we all know this was a James Brown joint originally, so you know there's potential already. Some nice weird percussion shit in the background, other than that, nice tight drums with some serious kick.

Weird! This is an oddball loop that I'm putting up just because it's a drum loop, sorta, technically, kinda'. I'm dissing it too hard, it's not all Corky-retarded or something, but it's almost like Oompa-loompa-disabled-equivalent, but a couple steps above "Thank you for the help that I like it", yet a step or two below "I was runn-ning!" Got it? Confused? Me, too, move along Lieutenant Dan…

        Original Album: Wild Thing

This beat is PHATT, PHATT, PHATT! This one was featured sped-up on a Drum Crazy album, but I haven't found the track yet. This beat is so nice, I just used it in a track I'm working on, and it really worked out great. Nice use of the open hi-hat/bass drum combination, as you'll hear and recognize as a standard funk trademark, and a bass drum that somehow sounds punchy slow or fast. VERY usable, and highly recommended, even for chopping or speeding WAY up...more below. This beat's of off Fancy's "Wild Thing" album, which I just gave away to Dave, since I'm such a nice guy (and since he's given me so much over the years, and he's the man, and you should go to his site and buy LOTS of stuff there and be happy forever). That's the problem with friendship, it makes you do nice shit all the time! That's cool, though, I'm just playin'. This track has this delish fill in the beginning with these awesome, full-sounding toms (easily sampleable as drum pieces), then has some cymbal crashes. (I can't believe I said "delish" before...)

        Original Album: Rock & Roll Survivors

Here's the first of 3 beats in this batch off the "Rock and Roll Survivors" album by Fanny. This one, as do the others, features Brie Howard bangin' away in a swing-type groove. I don't know how useful this beat will be to you for hip-hop production, but it's got a nice bass drum, and it's the best beat off that album. Too bad the woman's named after some cheese…

        Original Album: Rock & Roll Survivors

Here's the cheese-mistress again, eight on the floor, and cowbell in tow. This beat is pretty bad, too, but here it is anyway, from a pretty bad girl-group that seems to be kind of a predecessor to Heart or something... Heart was waay better than these chicks, and you should see the album, they be ugly! Man, sorry about that, that was really un-90s of me, and I would like to apologize personally to Fanny for that... but I can't, because it's true. : )!!

        Original Album: Rock & Roll Survivors

Here's probably the best of the three beats from the "Rock and Roll Survivors" album. Well, it's probably a tie with "Beggar Man". This one could be put to good use and redeemed somehow. BUT, don't think that Fanny or the cheese-bitch concocted this all on their own, because I had to step in and fix it up for you. It was a tragedy when I found it: it had this REALLY annoying triangle that came in all the time, for no apparent reason other than to completely sodomize the whole beat, so I edited it out with CoolEdit. So here's the exclusive M.C. Whyte Mark-Ass Bitch remix of this once-weak beat, completely transformed into something a young white man could be proud of. Fanny should ashamed...a triangle, of all things!

        Original Album: Upon This Rock ('74)
        Comps: Drum Crazy 2; CTI Sampler: Masters of the Saxophone

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Main Loop, no hi hat

        Original Album: Upon This Rock ('74)
        Comps: Drum Crazy 2; CTI Sampler: Masters of the Saxophone

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Second Loop - Very cool swing hi-hat

        Original Album: Upon This Rock ('74)
        Comps: Drum Crazy 2; CTI Sampler: Masters of the Saxophone

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - mp2-compressed solo

This is a song about the comraderie of siblinghood, a song about being hassled by "the man," and a song about enjoying life. It is only fitting that these drums relay those same messages to me, only instead of actually speaking the english language, they say "boom" and "tap". Um, I mean, like, the "boom" part is like, saying, "Keep on", and the "tap" part is, like, saying, um, like, "brother", or something... I mean, that's what I hear them saying, at least, like...when I'm tired. Anyway, a little uneven tempo-wise, but you've come to expect that around here, right? Who cares, let's overlook that and just listen to the drums, who very clearly say, "boom" and "tap"…

Okay, you got some slightly muffled drums, some muffled funky cowbell action, and some people talkin' smack at each other (party style, baby). Also, there's some flute in the mother, so you can pretend to be One Lone-ly Beas-tie and hook it up into a phat track with lots of nasally white-boy rap over it. What am I on? This beat is nice, even though it's subtle and gots the party-smack, flute-smack, and cowbell-smack up in the mix. That's a lotta' sweet, honey smack if you ask me, dig it? Ribbit…

        Original Album: Fat Mattress

From their self-titled album, this is really a scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel beat...one that I probably shouldn't have bothered to put up here... Well, that aside, this beat is really useless, the drums are all muddy sounding and shitty. The beat itself sucks, too, I mean, it's unusable. Don't download it. Really the only reason I put this beat up here is so that people would see that I have a Fat Mattress album, which is honestly pretty pathetic. My favorite track is "Petrol Pump Assistant". It's about an alien that comes to Earth and tries to befriend a gasoline pump, unsuccessfully. Groovy, huh?

I heard this one for the first time recently, and it blew me away. And I'm a heavy-set person, so it takes quite a lot to blow me anywhere. Back to the beat, though... This one may seem deceptively commonplace at first, but if you turn it up a little, you'll hear that it fu*kin' grooves as hard as Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. Check it out, and worship me for sharing it with you.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.25

Hip Hop Hooray. What more need I say? Peace & Chillitude to Dave'sRecords for straightening me out with this one.

        Original Album: Single (with "Shoo Fly Pie")

From the 45-rpm featured on www.raremusic.com comes this song about Mom & Pops doin' tha naaasty!! YUCK! I chopped this shit a little bit, but didn't alter the underlying beat, ya know? So don't you worry, it's still got all the naaastiness of the original, and you can still fulfill your disgusting, incestuous desires from the privacy of your own computer. I can't believe that I've become a purveyor of smut...I'm such a whore! Anyway, nice beat here, good soul tune, hard drums, choppable, and all the free incest you can handle! What more could you ask for? (Besides live streaming video...)

        Original Album: Bare Trees

Very similar to the Rolling Stones' Honky Tonk Woman. Got the cowbell and alla'dat! Nice one from a band I used to dislike…they're starting to look like the Sons of Champlin now, how many beats they've got! Thanks goes out again to Dave's Records for alerting me to Fleetwood Mac's secret dopeness…

        Original Album: Heroes Are Hard To Find
        Comps: Fun With Drums

This is a supremely phat beat. Really full bass drum hits, slow and simple. It's fuckin' awesome. Actually, it's embarassing to say, but this whole album is kinda' tight. Yeah yeah, I know, I'm like SO white! This beat appeared in mystery mode on the "Fun With Drums" compilation. Thanks to Dave's Records for cluin' me in on this one! (Does anyone know how to spell "cluing"? Clueing…?)

        Original Album: Game Of Love
        Comps: Several "Best Of" comps…

Davisk's arsenal of beats knows no bounds! Here's one he sent me about 5 months ago (aren't you glad you're not paying me for this?) that I am just now getting up here. This is a REALLY BIG (sounding) beat, with crash cymbal hits on every beat and echo like it was recorded in the BatCave (TM) or something. Nice, though, definitely, because it's a drum loop!

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - The classic 1975 discoey tune that's at the same time revoltingly stupid and uncomfortably likeable…

        Original Album: Jazz Dancing - Jazzercise With Frank Wagner

Another crazy drum loop from one of Dave's rare aerobics records.

        Original Album: Jazz Dancing - Jazzercise With Frank Wagner

Submitted by Dave's Records, here's an obscure one that even the Soulman doesn't have! This loop is from is from an aerobics album Dave found somewhere in this great big, bizarre planet. The best part about this track, even though it's not up here, is when the instructor is talking about relaxing the body, and he says shit like, "Relax the neck, the shoulders...", etc. But then, all of a sudden, while listing body parts to relax, he slips in the word "unit"!! Yeah, that's right, you heard me: "unit"!! So, all you players out there, don't forget to relax your unit before a workout!! :) Thanks, Dave, that shit made me laugh for like an hour!

        Original Album: Judy In Disguise ('68)
        Comps: Several "Best of" comps…

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Nice faster one, very simple with great solid drums that pack a punch.

        Comps: James Brown's Funky People

Just a double-time hi-hat loop by itself for you to layer. Note: the song is actually called "(It's Not The Express) It's The JBs Monaurail (Part 1)", but I can't start it with a parenthesis or it won't alphabetize correctly.

        Comps: Trippin': The Groove Merchant Compilation

This bass drum is like a TR808 or something. I don't know off-hand when it was recorded, but it sounds electronically enhanced (like the "Love's Theme" break). And if you slow this one down, you get bass that's so low and phat, you could literally destroy your speakers, so be careful! Unless you have Cerwin-Vegas, then do whatever you want! :)

        Original Album: Out Of The Frying Pan

From the "Out of the Frying Pan" LP. I think I chopped this one a bit, so whatchu' gone' do 'bout it! Nice lively drum break with some excited exclamatories in the background. Also features cowbell and hand-clapping - you know what it sounds like without even downloading it, huh? :)

        Original Album: Funkadelic
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol. 8

Extremely famous beat, and one of the best ones around. This is some extreme funkiness right here, and I'll be posting a cleaner sample of it as soon as I can. You really have to hear this one to believe it, because it's all about the sound of the drum set, which is so damn open and live. Very very awesome beat, and this is a long clip from the beginning if this track, featuring one of the (or THE) coolest fills of all time! Sampled by Us3 and many others (Dave's Records had a PHAT-ASS loops with this before, but now it's gone…) Note: 64Kbits/sec. mono.

        Original Album: Funkadelic
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol. 8

More funk for the folks. This clip is much shorter, and has some bleed-through of the bass. However, it's still funky as hell, and worth the couple seconds to download. :) Note: 64Kbits/sec. mono.

Submitted by Erock, submitter of submitters, submitter to the stars, so submissive he stunt-doubles in porno bondage films on the weekend. Whoah, you guessed it, it's gettin' late! And once again, that pillow is just lookin' so fine! NO! FOCUS! People's lives depend on you to acurately describe these drum beats, boy! Snap out of it, your country is relying on you! Okay, okay, I'll describe, I'll describe! This one's for the Gipper! Okay, meanwhile, in sanity-land... This beat is a short, loopable snippet with some deep, rich drums, and bass hits with every snare hit, great reverb that would phatten up a mix, and a chill open hi-hat that gangsterizes the shit out of it all just fo' kicks. It's only 59K, for chrissakes, download it! You'll thank me later, if you can make it to later through this progressively incoherent insanity...

        Original Album: America Eats Its Young

Sounds similar to "Planets Theme" by Dexter Wansel… nice drums, but a lot of clavinet instrumentation bled through from the other channel, so it's somewhat soiled. Check it, though, the instrumentation sounds interesting since it's all reverbey and barely audible. :) Note: This file contains 2 separate breaks strung together; 64Kbits/sec mono.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.2

Starts out with a really nice fill, then goes into a kinda weird, discoey beat. It's nice, and it's definitely unique, but I couldn't really see myself using it for anything. Perhaps it's my just lack of vision, but then again, maybe it's my complete irreverence and utter lack of respect for art. The fill is great, though, and of course, the whole thing's all CUEd for you.

Thanks to Erock, I'm throwin' another nice one your way here. Fast, simple, recorded a little too hot, and very versatile for your own uses. Not too much to say here, I've never even heard this song, so I'll just shut the fuck up.

Davisk strikes again, here's another one from his archives, a nice one with some vibrant treble and krayzee bongos, and lotsa' insanity. Naw, it's not all that insane, but I'm in a weird mood, and I run this here place, so what I say goes!

        Original Album: Superfunk

This one's fuckin' awesome: great reverb, nice open sounding drums… Very very funky, and some subtle bongo action kickin' it old school in the background. Sweet! Vinnie, this one's for you…

I can't stress this one enough! It starts out with one of the coolest, if not the coolest, "hit" sound, and then the drum beat...oh, the drum beat. This beat is so Phat that if it had to wear a belt, it would be size equator... This beat is so phat, that Richard Simmons wouldn't even try to help it. But that's good for us, because that guy gives me the creeps, and he better stay the fuck out the ghetto! Download this beat immediately: every minute you delay is another minute you could be enlightened!

        Original Album: Hangin' Out ('73)

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        Original Album: Hangin' Out ('73)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Part 2 featuers a lot of cool bongo play and has a nice crisp sound - lots of higher mid. Cymbal crashes every measure.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol. 8

Notes by Davisk: "Street Talk is by Funky Constellation. The song was the 2nd of 3 songs on the ASide of UB&B Vol.8. It actually has 3 breaks, but the one I've labelled as Street Talk 1 is repeated again later in the song, which runs for 10 and a half minutes. It's one of my least favourite songs on the UB&B series, and the breaks are not anything to write home about (if you listen to the actual song, you'll notice that the drummer and the percussionist (who plays a cowbell in one break and a "Mardi Gras"-like bell on the other break) are not very well in synch, which I find annoying."

Very high bass drum, and prominent hi-hat. This is prime shit, with a unique sound that will definitely make your track jam. Highly recommended.

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

Nice fast one, recorded poorly and sampled from some scratchy-ass vinyl… But you don't mind, do you? Starts off with a quick little snare fill and then rocks through a busy funk pattern (I suspect this one would sound really nice slowed down a bit). If you listen REALLY carefully with good headphones, you can hear a little agogo riff running through the background… Try it, you'll like it…

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

Here's another loop from the end of the same track… By this time, the drummer has progressed to ride cymbal. Other features include an out-of-place guiro hit, some crazy conga shit, and a "what's up" right in the middle of it all… I give this loop a 1 out of 5 stars, but I'm a dick…

        Comps: Status Breaks v.1

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        Original Album: Disco One

Swing loop with lots of bass drum and some "Uh!". Pretty gay, but at the same time uncomfortably attractive…

Extremely phat break, featuring a ringy snare drum with nice triplets. Extremely talented drummer, whoever this is… Swings, rocks, and gets down. Note: 11KHz, 8bit, mono.

No, your eyes did not deceive you, this is Part 2, and there is no Part 1 here. The Part 2 is actually part of the actual title of the actual song, not my own little creation. So, on to the task at hand. This is one of my favorite beats on this page (and another one that I first heard on raremusic.com). It's nice, with some party-smack-talkin' in the background (check out "Hey, who's that drummin' on the cowbell, man?") and some (surprise surprise) cowbell. It's nice, though, extremely oppressive, phallic, and inappropriately forward in its sexual advances like...well, you think of an analogy, the best one written-in goes right here. Okay, I know the suspense is killing you, the answer is Clarence Thomas. The beat, though, is awesome, and I looped it in a really unique way for you: I looped it at 10 beats, that way you can hear the whole thing through twice without it repeating the same pattern, and you can pick which parts you like best. Maybe that's confusing, but loop it and you'll see what I mean. The starting point the first time around is different from the starting point the second time around, as the listener perceives it. I'm such a fuckin' innovator!

        Original Album: Gov't Mule (Relativity Recordings, '95)

A nice loop with a killer snare! Feature Matt Abts on the kit.

This is the first part of this famous break, which has some craziness with clave, and a little drum machine snare roll… The second part kicks ass, this part is so-so… Updated 12/17/2000 to hi-res ADPCM (original file submitted by Davisk)

BEAUTIFUL! We all know this one, right? Well here it is, all CUEd up for you (thanks, David!) and sounding great. Updated 12/17/2000 to hi-res ADPCM (original file submitted by Davisk)

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.24

This song is weird, it sounds like a Monkey's song or something, and then in the middle, all of a sudden, this beat busts out, and it's like - bladow! I was surprised. Seriously. In fact, I think I may have soiled myself, I feel damp... Dude, I'm tired as hell, so you'll just have to excuse me, it's almost 1:00am, and I have one more beat to write about, so you'll have to pardon me and just download this one and review it yo' damn self. It's a small one, very simple, and phat (and almost fits into the white-boy rock drum category, but not quite). In the words of Jim Carrey, "I like it a lot".

Here's a nice unique one with some very cool rim hits. This and "Sneakin' In The Back" may be the only two of that kind on this page, actually. Rim hits are so chill, you gotta' love 'em. Peep this funkaccino thanks to (surprise surprise) Erock. Updated 12/17/2000 to CUEd ADPCM (original file submitted by Erock).

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats v.7

This is a really long one, and if you're into disco with the occasional timbale thrown in, then this is right up your alley. Your alley is weird, though, truth be known. Anyway, it starts off with a 3-beat fill (how annoying) and then goes into a cool discoey groove, with said occasional timbale hit, finally climaxing in a fast 4-beat fill that's weirder than Dennis Rodman. Why didn't I CUE the whole thing for you? Because I'm too damn tired and lazy.

        Original Album: 45rpm single on the Jewell label (1965)

Nice weird little loop. Very obscure I'm told…

        Original Album: West Coast Boogaloo

Here's the Greyboy Allstars' drummer, Zak Najor, bangin' away. This boy can fuckin' play…unfortunately, they always mix his drums into the fucking ground so you can't hear them. Either that, or he plays with toothpicks or something… In any case, this ish is phat, and you can hear the style right here.

        Original Album: Some Shapes To Come

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - mp2-compressed from 1.7MB, really long awesome break.

        Original Album: American Woman

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DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Really cool one from Harvey Mason, two parts fully CUEd for CoolEdit's Playlist feature.

        Original Album: Thrust

Here's the Funky Headhunter, Mike Clark, goin' at it again, givin' Stubblefield a run for his money. This isn't a particularly impressive technical showcase of Clark's abilities, but it's damn funky, and I double-dare you to say otherwise! From the classic "Thrust" album, a nice funky gem that's fully choppable and irresistibly funkadelic. Damn, my ass sounds like Gene Shalit or something…

        Comps: Sound of Funk vol.?

A nice long one (so excuuuuse me for the large file size!), this one's off one of the "Sound of Funk" comps, I think, because otherwise, how the fuck would I know who Tyrone Harris was? Anyway, you probably know him, but you're much cooler than me, so just go on ahead and know him, see if I care. Oh yeah, the beat here is a nice fast one, with a VERY familiar feel, but not just familiar because you are so tight with Tyrone, because other drummers use it, too, get it? Okay, I'm moving on now...I think this Tyrone shit has run its course…

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.4

Chef scores again! This beat is phat! It's kinda' like Funky Worm mixed with the underground music from Super Mario Brothers 3, remember that beat, when Nintendo was trying to be the mack? Anyway, this beat is for makin' sweet love to Kathie Lee by the fire! Get it on, my little cracka's!

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.11

This is Mike Clark at one of his funkier moments. The Headhunters were Herbie Hancock's backing band during some of his funkiest years, and Mike Clark is the drummer featured here. You can hear him fuckin' get down on the Master Drummers Vol.3 CD available from Ubiquity, definitely a must if you're into drums...and if you're not, then you're fucking retarded for wasting all your time reading this... Oh yeah, Mike Clark is white, too. Go white boy go white boy go! I like the second half more than the first, personally, because it has this cool syncopated percussion shit going on in the background, and it makes the whole thing more interesting and funky. Mike Clark makes me less ashamed to be a white male in America. God bless that boy. Yes, so you know, I tweaked the intro fill, sorry.

        Comps: The Best Of Uriah Heep ('74)

Very nice sparse loop with a ringy snare and chunky hi-hat hits. Killer triplet fill at the very end.

Submitted by Erock, perhaps because he couldn't stand it anymore and needed to unload it? :) I'm just playin', calm down! This kinda' sounds like a Junior High School Jazz Band running loose in the percussion section of Guitar Center or something, and is that someone's pager beeping around the middle of the loop? I know, they didn't have pagers back then, it's probably someone's Digital PCS mobile phone. Regardless of everything I just said, I really like this loop, just, I couldn't see looping it for too long at a time without enraging a couple neighbors. Aw, who cares, you decide.

        Original Album: Sunburst
        Comps: Blue Break Beats vol.2

Another funky track available as a reissue on the Blue Break Beats v.2 comp. This has a little bit of that New Orleans flavor, with the open hi-hat on the first downbeat, and the unusual rhythm, and also, what is a Kumquat? Do you eat it with crawdads or something? Tight loop, check it, crawdads or not. (And while I'm on the off-subject, what's the difference between crayfish and crawdad, and what does gumbo taste like?)

Dave's Records & Davisk - DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS! - Updated 4-24-99 better sound, includes intro flam.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.4

This beat is extra phat in all the right places. Very hardcore, very funky, and chillin' like a villain, baby! Nice fill at the end (I put it there, by the way, so it'd loop well). I highly recommend this one from an obscure band comprised of future-members of Z.Z. Top and Marden Hill. Seriously, though, Z.Z. Hill isn't a band, it's just one guy, a blues singer.

A phat main loop and a nice simple fill with some toms. Sounds like there's some tambourine hiding back there somewhere, but don't hold me to it, because I'll just buckle under the pressure. Nice prominent drums, and another bass drum that really packs a punch. But my favorite thing is that there's a song called "Tormented" by someone named Johnny Holiday… hee hee hee…

Another DOPE beat submitted by Erock, here ya' go with some PHAT delayed reverb and a rhythm that makes this beat instantly recognizable. Check this beat on the track "The Real Vibes" by The Wiseguys on the "Give 'em Enough Dope Vol.1" album, nice. Thanks again and mad props to Erock for unveiling this heretofore mystery beat.

        Original Album: Black Motion Picture Experience
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.6; Sound Spectrum

This is a nice, funky beat from master drummer Billy Cobham. There's some instrumentation over the second half, but I thought you might like it anyway, since you're such a freakin' cultural, worldly type a' mothafucka'! Please note that the ALBUM is called "Black Motion Picture Experience" (on Buddah Records), NOT the Artist.

        Original Album: Black Motion Picture Experience
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.6; Sound Spectrum

Just the intro fill from this track. It's like 3 notes…

        Comps: Greatest Hits; 45 on Collectables

Here's a nice bongo-ey loop some might describe as "like Apache", but then again, some people (Jet) might describe everything as "like Apache;" so let's break with tradition and describe it as "harnessing the very essence and mysticism of the tropical papaya". I don't think any beat's been described like that before, and you heard it here first, so next time you see that description in Goldmine Magazine or Grand Royal, let me know so I can collect my pseudo-psychotic-poetic royalties!

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.11

You've heard it all over the place. Now you can loop it in your ear for hours. Well, maybe just one hour at a time. Five Star Phatness rating.

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

Whoo, hiss and crackle central! I tried removing some of this crackly shit, but it just makes the loop sound even worse, so I left it… This is a really simple loop that repeats 4 times but has a little open hi-hat hit at the very end. The drum set definitely sounds similar to "Impeach The President", but it's hard to tell since the sound is so awful…

        Original Album: Rockin'

Here's a nice intro fill into an annoying-ass song… No reason to ignore this part, though! In fact, there's a nice drum loop on the track "Hot 'n' Nasty" on this album as well, but I'm not gonna' post it 'cause there's too much other shit over it. It's choppable though, check it out if you see this album sometime!

        Original Album: Blacks & Blues
        Comps: Blue Break Beats vol.2

Suggested by Erock, sampled by I, here's a nice slow groover that was featured on the Blue Break Beats vol. 2 album, which is cheaply and readily available if you can't get the vinyl. Nice break with mellow, uncharacteristically-behaved bongos and chill snare-rim hits (by Harvery "Funk in a Mason Jar" Mason) set the tone for this whoridin' gangster tune that later provided a wicked guitar sample for Ice-T's "New Jack Hustler".

Good sloppy-ass one by someone who probably wasn't really supposed to be a drummer, but hey, that's how we got "Momma Miss America" by McCartney, right? I ain't complainin', 'cause this fucked-up beat has serious potential, nice snare (and nice rim when he accidentally misses it once!!!), good hi-hat, chop out the fuck-ups, and you could even pretend that he can play, fool your friends! Great fun at parties! Only $19.95 US, $22.95 Canada! Don't you feel sorry for Canada, they always get ripped off for that extra couple bucks…

        Comps: Status Breaks v.1

Philip Davis done stole this one off of "Status Breaks", so you know where you can find it if it turns you on... For some reason, this reminds me of something that would be on "Drum Crazy", which obviously means it's a good one, and which also means that you should download it. This is the first of two parts with slightly differing tempos, from a track with lots of drummage to offer, including some phat fills and great stuff. Fairly fast, and likely the product of a good drummer's efforts.

        Comps: Status Breaks v.1

This is Part 2 from the Philip Davis loop we just heard a minute ago. You can hear it starting to slow down in the end, which it continues to do long after this clip cuts it off. But what the heck, we're creative people living on a craetive planet, we can live with it. Right? Okay, fine, don't live with it, see if I care. :)

        Original Album: Natural Illusions ('72)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Very nice, slightly large file, but that just means more beat for ya' buck!

        Comps: Love Oh Love [on Charly]

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DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - mp2-compressed, since I didn't have the heart to leave any of this awesome break out. There's lotsa wholesome goodness in here, so eat up!

        Original Album: I Gres: Exotic Themes For Film, Radio, And TV
        Comps: I Gres: Exotic Themes For Film, Radio, And TV

Very tight, smooth, produced drums with a double-time hi-hat. This drummer seems pretty steady, and there's some nice hi-hat work here: lots of accents on the open hat throughout, making this beat both unique and technically impressive. (see Part 2 below)

        Original Album: I Gres: Exotic Themes For Film, Radio, And TV
        Comps: I Gres: Exotic Themes For Film, Radio, And TV

This Part is much simpler, both in the hi-hat work and the overall vibe. It's definitely funky and very usable, so I recommend that you download this jammin' little scoop of gelato and stick it in your sugar cone. :)

Fitting nicely into the burgeoning "funky zoo" section of this page is the third of 3 beats that were graciously submitted to me by Escape. This one's pretty hardcore, good chunky hi-hat and snare and nice tight bass drum. Hey, Ike was a hardcore kinda' guy, what'd you expect, home fry? Check it, I suspect that it would be even fatter slowed down a bit, but I haven't experimented with that yet. Props to Escape for hookin' us up. Anyone else care to donate anything? Feel free, just ask before emailing it! (Extreme lo-res, not my fault, sounds phat anyway.)

I love this one! It's all a solo with the drummer kinda' making sounds in the background (you can tell the brother is serious into his shit). This solo isn't like a funky loop solo, though, and it's not like a random, hitting-everything-around-you thing either, it's this very unique, almost marching-band cadence-sounding solo that manages to get you bobbing your head and gettin' into it. Highly recommended for a nice change of pace and some great funky drumming. Sort of long because I didn't want to fade it.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.3

This is an old-school favorite, wicked crazy, and a surprisingly funky remake of an old surfing song. Hang ten, homey.

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        Original Album: 45 rpm single

Nice one! Groovy bongo/conga riff atop a nice disco break with double-time hi-hats. I'm basing the artist name on THIS PAGE

Another George Semper-produced track (even though I haven't mentioned his name before, several of these beats were borne of his production) with that irreverent New Orleans style of off-beat emphasizing. Nice open hi-hat hits, really raw and un-processed drums, like they should be. Definitely recorded before the dawn of the drum machine or John Tesh. Why do I mention John Tesh? Well, it's quite simple: he sucks.

        Original Album: Heavy
        Comps: Drum Crazy 1

A nice one, for sure, and another ex-mystery beat brought into the spotlight for a shining moment. Props this beat definitely deserves, so get 'em ready and loop this little slice of phatness for a few hours. Thanks, Iron Butterfly. Won't you be, my neighbor?

        Original Album: In A Gadda Da Vida

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Main Loop, PHAT! From Drummer Ron Bushy on Iron Butterfly's Debut Album from 1968.

        Original Album: In A Gadda Da Vida

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Submitted to me by Tommy, here's a slow, quiet gangsta' loop that makes me hungry for some gangsta' cornbread! And why don't you get 'cho bitch-ass in the kitchen and make me some pie! I'm not fat, I'm big-boned!

From the "Arrives!" album on Motown. I think this is one of my favorite beats submitted so far by Erock. This beat is really raw and has a nice original vibe to it, good ambience! (HA! I made it through a whole one without saying something fuckin' vulgar or insane!)

        Comps: 18 Greatest Hits

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Nice extreme chill groove with quiet, high-pitched kick drum and rim hits instead of snare. Very very cool, just add some kick!

A very short fill, but features nice vibrant drums, so I posted it.

This one's got that x-tra phat potential that we CoolEdit users can appreciate. :) Very vibrant drums, they'll make your ears perk up. Chop it up and serve it hot - and everything goin' be kickin' like mom's chicken! (Thanks, Hi-C)

One of like four hundred and ninety-three beats submitted over the past couple weeks by my man Erock, this is a nice one with sort of light sounding drums. Perfect as a second layer over something a bit louder or bassier. Short but sweet, there you have it.

        Original Album: We Went To Different Schools Together

Nice tight, woody snare. Vibrant hi-hat, unique in that it starts out double-time and then goes to a one-hit-per-beat deal. Nice drum sounds.

        Original Album: Life Is A Fight ('76)

Nice double-time hi-hat with this otherwise discoey loop. Very nice, with great bass and a nice snare with some ring to it.

        Original Album: Two ('75)

Another funky drumbreak from Boob James (oops, I mean Bob James). Seriously, the man's got breaks, but his tracks are wack as shit, for the most part. Now, you can go on and disagree, but after listening to one of his albums straight through, I feel like I've just taken a bottle of Ex-Lax. This one's CUEd since it's really long and has one main loop and one part with a cool fill at the end. Updated 12/17/2000 to ADPCM (original file submitted by Davisk)

        Original Album: Two ('75)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - STEREO file with drums more prominent on left and bells more prominent on right. Steve Gadd (or Andrew Smith?) on Drums. This file is fully CUEd for CoolEdit, so you can loop the whole shit proper.

        Original Album: Two ('75)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Part 2 with the krayzee-ass loud bells part that sounds like an ice storm in Hell… (?). As sampled by PM Dawn and many others.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.15

Post-"Jefferson Airplane" but pre-"Starship". Okay, only a few more rock music beats to come, but you have to admit, they're appealing in that special white, loud way of theirs. This one's nice, loud and big and all that usual rock beat stuff, but also funkily chillin' in some mysterious way. Who knows…

        Original Album: Ton Ton Macoute
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.16

This is by far one of my favorite beats. This one has an intro fill and two parts that are all already CUEd for your pleasure. VERY hard drums, very cool beat, and I can't wait to mix this beat up into some tracks (check Part 2 below).

        Original Album: Ton Ton Macoute
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.16

Here's Part 2 of this excellent drum beat, and I still don't know what a Gilded Splinter is, nor do I know who Johnny Jenkins is... Part 2 has some really nice syncopated percussion playing along, and it would make a really interesting and funky break in almost any track you could throw together. It's worth the 426k to download it! Updated 12-1-99 to include the whole fill!

I'm kickin' the habit, baby, I'm straightenin' out, can you dig it? Makes me feel so good... This beat is nice, from a chill little soul/funk tune I like. Nice snare and ride, uptempo. I chopped it a bit so it'd loop well for you, but you know that I only do that because I care. It's not like I HAVE to do it, I could stop if I wanted to. I could. What? It's not like all I think about is chopping beats and... Okay! Okay! I admit it! My name is Phatso, and I'm a chop-o-holic! I've been chain-chopping about 5 beats-per-day since I was four, and it's all I think about, it affects my job, it ended my marriage, I don't know what to do. I've got to get the turntable off my back!

Nice drumbreak here from a relatively gay song. Well, I like the song, but not this version. Well, it's not unusual to hate Tom Jones. Check the beat, though, I think you'll be happy like me, and I'm especially happy I don't own the Tom Jones album. Note: I chopped out the "Ugh" in the middle of this track, sorry. I think I'll stop doing that from now on…

Highly recommended by Dave's Records, so you know it's dope!

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.2

This is the ultra-rare 12" version of this song that supposedly goes for like £70 on the beat market, but what the fuck is a £? Anyway, rare or not, this is a very nice brrrreak (as Tony the Tiger would say). It's got that disco-vibe to it, which I usually don't go for, but it redeems itself with overall funkiness and manages to overcome that self-imposed affliction. Really nice snare, by the way, and don't forget all those £s you're saving, thanks to me!

        Original Album: Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun
        Comps: Drum Crazy 2

Submitted by Jammy, seemingly the quality beat source beyond compare, this is another Drum Crazy beat (I think), with a very unique, recognizable sound. Good variety of clips available from this selection, crash cymbal, open hi-hat, etc. Chop it to your heart's desire, or just loop it loud and piss off the neighbors, that's what I do…

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This is one of those great party drum tracks with tons of people in the background doin' they thang and shit. I don't know how you'd really use this one practically, but some things defy practicality-things like party drum tracks. So just loop tha' shit and be chillin', it's free anyway.

        Original Album: Kid Dynamite
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.14

Used by Ani DiFranco on the album, "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere" (a great album with some killer insights by Utah Phillips), this one's very distinctive and very interesting and extremely phat. The drums have a very open sound, and they'd be great layered with something a little more cohesive. What the fuck am I talking about? Who knows...it's 2:30am and this is the last beat I'm gonna' write about tonight! Leave me alone! :( Updated 12-1-99 to include twice as much phat!

Never mind the beat for now, I really like this song. If you ever see it in the store, like Safeway or Ralph's or something, you should definitely grab it. It should probably be in the produce section, between the turnips and the rhubarb. The beat, however, is very quiet, unfortunately. I guess I could reach over and turn the volume up, but I'm pretty tired, it's about 4 o'clock in the A.M., I'm your host, Lionel Osborne, and this is Perspectives. If you're just joining us, we're talking to King Tutt about rhubarb and the untouchable turnips. And on that extremely odd note, I'm going to SLEEP, baby!! Oh, but one more thing, very phat closed hi-hat on this one, definitely peep that, and just ignore all the groggy babble above. Peace.

        Original Album: Doin' It Right
        Comps: Doin' It Right (Ubiquity)

Highly recommended by Dave's Records, so you know it's dope!

This is just the intro-fill from this funky, krayzee little song. It's just something I thought you might wanna' use as a fill or a break or something. Not all that great or anything, but definitely funky enough to put up here, and from a really funky and bizarre song by a bizarre person. ...I wanna' be like Mike…

        Original Album: Unmasked (?)

Interesting! A Kiss loop… :) Pretty dope, with very nice ride bell hits and a tasty fill to kick things off…

        Original Album: Neither One Of Us

From the "Neither One Of Us" LP. Nice one! This was another random flea market find, but goddamn was this a jackpot! This is a long break with fuckin' awesome sounding, full drums, and a nice fill at the end. Perfection! The bass drum is just about all you could ever ask for. There's some quiet keyboards in the background, but I'm lettin' it slide, since this is so incredible.

This is a crazy-fast breakbeat from Funky George Brown, Kool's kickin' skinsman. Similar to "Give It Up" (below) but faster, would be tha' shit as a break in a hip-hop mix. Check the mad styles.

        Original Album: Message In The Music

Originally from the "Message in the Music" album, sampled for "Mr. Muhammad" by Tribe, and sent in by Davisk, this beat has been around the block. Gots some soundcard buzz shit, but oohhhhh...it ain't my fault. Really odd beat, sort of a straight swing, and a rhythm I ain't heard played this tight before. I dunno', you check it out, come to a conclusion of your own, and then write "I will not blindly accept other people's conclusions" on the chalkboard 100 times...

Here's another phat loop from Funky George. This one laid the groundwork for Eric B. & Rakim's "Don't Sweat The Technique", and it does a great job at that. A really interesting beat, very unique and hard, and from a great song that donated almost all the samples for "Don't Sweat The Technique". I guess Eric B. & Rakim thought it would be easier to match up a whole bunch of samples from the same song instead of being more creative...I shouldn't talk, though, that track was phat. :)

Submitted by Erock, here's the original version of K&TG's "Jungle Boogie", the version without the vocals. Fine by me, honestly, in fact, is that a tympani in there? That's some funky-ass orchestral percussion to be layin' down, I never even noticed it on "Jungle Boogie". I wish all songs had non-vocal versions, there's some great drum loops out there that are just being ritualistically opressed by needless verbosity and oratorical incontinence merely for the sake of the simplistic, commercialistic paradigms upon which this nation was founded. I mean, people should shut up and write more instrumentals... :)

Yeah, yeah, another beat from K&TG. Don't get an attitude about it, all their beats are phat, and there's still a couple more to come (below). Here's a mid-song solo from George, in his usual wicked-frantic-funky style. Gotta' love the guy. Check this, but turn down the treble!

        Original Album: Love & Understanding?
        Comps: Best of Kool & The Gang, 1969-1976

Nice quick fill, but somewhat interesting in rhythm. Good sounding toms make it a definite download.

        Original Album: Live At P.J.'s
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.17

Here's one of the all-time phattest beats. It's been used all over the place, and with good cause. This one'll get you movin' if nothing else will. Funky George scores again on the skins, and K&TG scores again for a DOPE song, too. DOWNLOAD IT NOW!

This one's special. First of all, it's all cut up and phunkdafied (by me), and also, I removed most of the guitar that was playing over it, too, with Cool Edit. It sounds pretty bad in lo-res, but it's slammin' in hi. Drop me a line if you want a hi-res copy of this "M.C. Whyte Mark-Ass Bitch" exclusive. But if you make millions off it, you better buy me a Coke or something...

        Original Album: Live At The Sex Machine ['71]
        Comps: The Best Of Kool & The Gang (1969-1976)

Very large file, and has some quiet guitar bleed-through from the other track, but it's really funky, and is an essential break, so it's here. Recorded live, and features audience noise and hiss, as it was meant to be! Sorry about all the sentence fragments, I'm really trying to get these posted quickly for you!

        Original Album: Trans-Europe Express

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Sampled by Afrika Bambaata sampled it for "Planet Rock". Flanged.

        Original Album: Du Bist Heute Wie Neu

Thanks to Martin in Germany for this dope-ass break! This is the best perk of the www: people from all over the planet sharing what they've got! This drumloop is from a guy called Manfred Krug. He was a singer in (formerly) East Germany and he made some records in the late 70s. After this time he went to West Germany, made some TV serials, and today he makes commercials for the German Telecom. But nobody knows his records. Some of them are very funky. Martin has spotted them in CD-Shops in the Easy Listening-Category! The Beat is from the record "Du Bist Heute Wie Neu", so keep your eyes peeled mine kinder!

This is a couple loops from a song with several in it. I left the bass in the beginning, because I think it's tight, and you could easily leave it in there and mix it with other shit as-is anyway. Take it out if you dislike it, whatevah! Nice one from a nice simpleton song whose major gimmick is a small loop that just changes key chromatically up and down for a few minutes. Who ever said less wasn't more?

        Comps: 12" on Alpha-Omega

Suggested by Erock, here's one that you've surely heard about before. It's been sampled too many times to count, by major-players like Biz, De La Soul, and Naughty By Nature... Everyone would kill for an original copy of this gem, so if you have one, don't tell anyone, or you might wake up face to face with a ski-mask-clad man holding a gun in one hand and a portable turntable in the other. They'll track your ass down for this beat, I would… (see also, "hi-res" download)

        Comps: 12" on Alpha-Omega

Submitted by Erock, here's one that you've surely heard about before. It's been sampled too many times to count, by major-players like Biz, De La Soul, and Naughty By Nature... Everyone would kill for an original copy of this gem, so if you have one, don't tell anyone, or you might wake up face to face with a ski-mask-clad man holding a gun in one hand and a portable turntable in the other. They'll track your ass down for this beat, I would… (see also, "lo-res" download)

This loop doesn't really feature a prominent drum set, it's mostly a cowbell and nice deep conga drum, with very faint drum set in the background. Good if you're looking for a slow, funky percussion break, not for a drum set break to carry a track or anything.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.10

Kinda' discoey shit, but extremely funky and lacking the over-produced, boring qualities of a disco track. It's a four on the floor beat, even has some violin hits, but I still like it, and it's definitely download-worthy!

        Original Album: Nicolette ('78)

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        Original Album: 4

This is a great beat courtesy of some white guys. It has since been used by other white guys (The Beastie Boys), some mysterious Irish white people (Enigma), and a white girl (Sophie B. Hawkins), and of course it has also been heavily used by non-whities, too. Whatever your hue, it's a dope beat.

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

This one's basically a disco beat, but it kind of solos off and gets pretty funky. The more the drummer goes off on his solo stuff, the less he is able to maintain his hi-hat footwork, and the open hi-hat sound gets pretty cool as a result: sort of open and ride-bell sounding. Anyway, it all takes a standard disco loop and adds a lot to it, definitely qualifying this loop for official non-disco status.

Here is the first of 3 files that were submitted to me by Escape. This one's fast, funky, furious, and anything else that starts with "f", except "fucked", "fumigator", and "fellatio"...well, maybe "fellatio"...? (What am I smoking, and is it legal in 49 states? (sorry Tennessee)) This is just the first half, so I'll save the rest of my inappropriate, irrelevant insanity for Part 2 below. Much proppage to Escape for hookin' us up. If anyone else wants to donate anything, feel free, just ask before emailing stuff! (Extreme lo-res, not my fault, sounds phat anyway, and only 21k!)

Just when you though it was safe to go into the United Commonwealth of Independent Soviet Republic States, or whatever the fuck it's called. This time, it's personal, baby! This beat is actually phatter than Part 1, in my opinion. It's louder and crazier, just like me, and that's how I like it, home style, so lay off. And this one's in 11KHz, instead of 8KHz, and you know what that means: it's 3KHz cooler! Go on with your bad, high-resolution-sampling-self, Escape! I think that when the drugs wear off sometime in my late 60s, I'm going to come back to this page and just wonder what the fuck I was talking about. Do you know? Will you remind me?

        Comps: Loungin' With Lee

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Main Loop

        Comps: Loungin' With Lee

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Some Nice Fills, but the beginning of this clip was cut off, so it's like 7 bars total or something odd…

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - The relatively quiet drums are sort of overshadowed by the cymbalry here, but, as Davisk says, "A break is a break"!

        Original Album: Hustler's Convention
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.19

This is listed on "Ultimate Breaks & Beats" as being from the song "Sport", but it's not. I didn't hear it on that whole album ("Hustlers' Convention") without the bass riff over it. Does anyone know off-hand where this drum break is from? Anyway, this break is phat, nice drums (and the one with the bass line in it is fuckin' hardcore, too), and it features the unparalleled, funky musicianship of Kool & The Gang. Check this short, tight loop from the masters, from a weird-ass album by a weird-ass old-school rhymster who can't seem to grasp the concept of rhyming with the beat... :(

Similar to "Bootleggin'"… Highly recommended by Dave's Records, so you know it's dope!

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.9

There seems to be some confusion as to whether the song is Cavern or the group is Cavern, so I hope I chose correctly... This is a disco-bongo festival beat. Sort of like Apache mixed with Films (see below) or something. I like it, though, even though all those bongo breaks start to sound the same after awhile. Check it out, though, I think this is one of the Bongo's finer moments…

        Original Album: Conversations With The Silhouettes

Here's the first of 10 beats submitted to me today by Erock. This is an extremely phat beat from Little Feat's Dixie Chicken LP: slow and tight, awesome snare and hi-hat, and more choppable than a scantily-clad, busty babe in a Friday the 13th flick. Top that! Oh yeah, I can top that: Tribe Sampled It.

        Original Album: Black & Blue
        Comps: Jazz Dance Classics vol.4

Another one reissued by Ubiquity (Jazz Dance Classics v.4 - THANK YOU UBIQUITY!). This is one of the best drum loops ever laid down on tape. It's totally original, completely distinctive, and outrageously catchy. Hard as hell, relentless, and yet chill at the same time. This is by far one of the best beats of all time. I think it was used on a Bulldog Break, too, but whatever, it'll blow you away, and you'll be tapping it all over the place for weeks. Updated to hi-res and now includes intro fill!! 11-25-99 (Happy Thanksgiving, Beeitch!)

        Original Album: The Beat Goes On

Very lo-res loop, sounds similar to apache… Conducted by Phil Kraus

        Original Album: Out Here
        Comps: Out There; Drum Crazy 2

Here is what many consider to be the phattest beat ever recorded. It is truly awesome, laid down for us by the un-funkily-named George Suranovich, and this is really a very small part of a mind-blowing 7-minute+ solo that (in all honesty) caused me to...well, I soiled myself again. :)!! Okay, download this one immediately, and check below for Part 2 to get an idea of how eclectic this extended-super-break is.

        Original Album: Out Here
        Comps: Out There; Drum Crazy 2

Part 2 of the Doggone break (still just a small sample of the whole masterpiece), this one is entirely unrecognizable as the same break, comparing it to Part 1. Sooper-fast and great tom work, hyper-rolls all over the place, uninterrupted by switching toms, this guy is damn fast, if nothing else. I keep picturing him exploding at the end of this solo, like all those tragic blokes who drummed for Spinal Tap. Very nice syncopated beat, and maybe a piece you haven't yet heard of this infamous, though readily available, beat.

A 9-second, four-on-the-floor break with a little of e'ythang! Crash cymbal, nice piccolo-sounding snare, great fills at the end...check it out.

This is just a PHAT 4+ second fill from this funky tune, and one that's worth downloading. It's long enough that you could use different parts from it and pawn them off as different fills! And then you'd be the toast of the town! (What the fuck is that supposed to mean, anyway?)

        Original Album: Greasy Kid Stuff! ('70)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - mp2-compressed because it was just too damn long.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats v.8

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Nice one with great fills. Simple and discoey, but still offers a solid 10 seconds of uniqueness.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol. 8

Starts out with a nice fast fill, follows up with a cool groove. Features several cymbal hits, and a loosely open hi-hat, kind of funky rock style. Nice loose bass drum and toms make it nicer than its standard rock counterpart. Note: 64Kbits/sec mono.

        Original Album: The Mamas & The Papas
        Comps: Creeque Alley: The History of…Disc 1

This is the intro fill from this song. Trebly and really raw sounding, and totally awesome. Definitely one of the coolest fills I've come across for awhile. Hey, while I have your attention, did you know that the lead male singer of The Mamas & The Papas had an affair with the 16-year-old female singer while he was married? That would suck major dick to be his wife, knowing that he cheated on your crusty ass with a fuckin' junior high school kid. Damn…

        Original Album: If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
        Comps: Creeque Alley: The History of…Disc 1

Another version of this track, also done by the Turtles. This ain't some "kickin' ass all over the joint and takin' names" type isht, but it's slammin', and worth ya' time. Go Mama Cass! Go Papa Phillips! Go Ham Sandwich! Umm… that was mean…

This sounds like a fill. It's a set of 16 straight 16th notes, and that's it. Includes bass drum, snare, and hi hat. Pretty cool, nice fill.

        Comps: Vinyl Dogs v.2; 12" on Alpha-Omega

Phil Davis sent me this rocking kick-ass beat that's been sampled by Cypress Hill and WreckxNEffects, to name just two. It's the same rhythm as the "I'm Chief Kamanawanalea" beat, but totally more subdued and sans cowbell. Very nice beat, very clean, usable, and funky.

Space Funk! Well, back then, maybe they thought that space made all drum loops play in reverse, but thanks to modern science, we now know this to be incorrect: space only makes John Tesh music play in reverse, all other music is unaffected. Well, maybe if you played something while traveling at light speed it would go in reverse, but then again, your ears would hurt from all the wind rushing by so fast and you probably wouldn't notice that much anyway. Okay, in case you haven't noticed, this beat is reversed somehow, but not completely. I mean, if you unreverse it, it still sounds fucked-up, so don't go doing the whole light-speed thing just on account of you wanna' hear this beat un-reversed, because you'll be let down, and then NASA will be on your ass about "borrowing" their top-secret experimental photon-beam transport system that's powered by David Hasselhoff music. I know, 'cause I'm writing to you from the slammer. Them boys at NASA done caught up with my light-speed-travelin-ass...they broke out some Richard Simmons videos and - booyeah! - I was out of commission. That shit is like kryptonite to my ass!

Man, if you made it through that last description, you deserve a reward. Here it is, a non-reversed, funky drumbreak with some mellow conga drums that don't ruin the whole thing like non-drum-set percussion can do sometimes. Like, don't you hate when there's a phatter-d'n-shit drumbreak and it has some jackass playing cowbell all retarded over it or something? The perfect example is "Cookies", which has a cool break and even a cool cowbell, but then it has a bicycle horn and one of those wooden noisemaker things just to fucking taunt you mercilessly. This one doesn't do that: no bicycle horns or party favors, guaranteed.

Quick fill, heavy accents on the upbeats. Slight swing.

        Original Album: Ratamacue

A slow, sooper-produced loop, kinda' like on the R&B tip, but really kickin' bass drum makes it worthwhile, and the snare is kind of interesting, too, sorta woody sounding. The rest of this album is SO DAMN BOOTY, though, that if I EVER catch you buying a copy, I'm a' whoop dat ass!

        Comps: Soulful

Here's a tight-ass one for you, easily usable and one you could be proud to use at that. Serious hardcore drums with a nice mid-range sound and a chunky hi-hat that sets it all off, and makes it move like Chris Tucker's mouf.

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        Original Album: Talk To The People?
        Comps: Tribe Vibes vol.2

Here's another Tribe sample, so you know tha' shit's kickin'. I tweaked it a bit so it'd loop well, but you won't hold that against me, right? I'm just helpin' you out here, so you don't have to do it! This one's extra hi-res, 160Kbits/sec.

        Original Album: Band On The Run

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Not really a drum beat, more of a swing percussion loop. Mildly homosexual with heterosexual undertones. (?)

        Original Album: McCartney/Cherries
        Comps: Drum Crazy 1; Fun With Drums

Here's how Paul sounds on drums, in case you were wondering. I like this beat a lot, the snare sounds like a shotgun. In fact, I mixed this beat with the sound of a shotgun firing, and it sounds pretty cool (check that out here if you're interested, just for fun - don't steal it!). This is from the "McCartney" album with cherries on the front cover, and it's a nice loud original funky break that you can get any day of the week for $1. If your town doesn't have 20 copies of this for $1, either 1) write a letter of protest to the town mayor, or 2) let me know if you want me to pick one up for you.

        Original Album: Wild Life ('71)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Another McCartney beat without a hi-hat, but this one's got bass to blow out your woofers and a nice solid snare. Check it out, it's definitely phat.

        Comps: Bite Hard: The Music DeWolfe Studio Sampler (1972-1980)

From the "Bite Hard: The Music De Wolfe Studio Sampler 1972-80" CD comes this funky drumbeat from 1979. It features really tight drums, but with full bass and vibrance. Very cool, somewhat long, just like me. :)

According to the RAP SAMPLE FAQ, this one's been used by Casual. Personally, I'd rather listen to it by itself than with Casual proclaiming his greatness over it, but that's just me. This one's very unique, and extremely funky. Check it out for a nice change of pace.

        Original Album: Electric Funk
        Comps: Blue Break Beats vol.2

These drums are incredible. They're totally unconventional, rythmwise, but they're undeniable funky. The album liner notes say about this track, "The thing here is the drummer..." and then they don't say who it is, besides that it was recorded in England, because it's a mystery or something. Come on, guys, you're Blue Note for fuck's sake, you could find out! Anyway, since they're too lazy to find out, this beat will just be credited to Jimmy McGriff for eternity. If anyone knows the identity of this swinging player of a skinsman, lemme'' know, he's definitely due for a prop or two. Nice light drums, very high-pitched, and syncopated, unlike anything I've heard before. Sampled by US3 (and annoyingly at that), and also by my man Michael Davis on the track "Piecing", puts US3 to shame with its dark, moody vibe and funkier than shit-on-a-stick-sicle remixes. Update: Everyone thinks/is sure it's Bernard Purdie.

        Original Album: Electric Funk ('69)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Nice one, but slightly chopped, and only a small clip of a funky break with intrumentation over it.

The ever-funky Jimmy McGriff lays another great one down on wax here for us to peep. This one from 1973 is off the album "Groove Grease" on the Groove Merchant label, and it was sent in to us by the wickedest, grooviest, international crate-diggin'est player this side of the Mississippi: Dave, A.K.A. "Dave's Records, Jr." Very nice, hard drums with a chill bongo in the background (not annoying). Shouts out to Dave for the phat loop.

Suggested by Erock, recently featured in the movie "Rounders", and unstoppably chill, here's a cowbell groover that's unparalleled in chillitude, and only perpendicularized in fillitude. You'll have to select a part you like from it to loop it without the fill, but that's easy, so shut up. Hostile? Yeah, sorry, I shouldn't take it out on you, it's really my own fault.: see (can't you just smell the insanity coming?), when I was in third grade, my father was killed by a clown, and ever since then, I've had this terrible fear of the circus. What does that have to do with me being hostile at this moment? Well, I'm eating animal crackers right now, and there's this picture of a clown and circus on the front, and I buy them in bulk at Costco because I always hope that the animal cracker company will mess-up and accidentally slip a clown cracker in the package and then I can bite its head off, but they never do, and I've gone through about 375 boxes of crackers so far today looking for that fucking clown, and I'm just tired and broke, and it's really frustrating, because my garage is still full of animal crackers, and I just don't have time to search through them all, even since I quit my job last week to pursue the crackers full-time. Earlier today, I thought I found the clown cracker, but it turned out to just be another fucking sea otter with a ball on its nose, and then I got really mad and had to put on my video of Ringling Bros. Greatest Hits and shoot at my TV screen when the clown part came on. My neighbors called the police again, but the police stopped coming since the gun is registered and the police know that I just hate clowns. The police aren't all that bad, really, after they get to know you. WAIT! I think I just heard someone honking their nose outside…
Updated 12-1-99 to extreme hi-res (256kbits/sec). This beat was featured in the movie Rounders. I didn't realize until just now that it was because the movie character's name was Worm… duh…

        Comps: Tribe Vibes vol.2; Drum Crazy 5

With a name like McPhatter, how could you possibly go wrong? You couldn't, I guess, and here's the proof. This one's been sampled by Tribe ("Lyrics to Go") and probably many more that I don't even know. It's incredibly funky, and very hardcore, and with a simple, funky-as-hell little fill at the end. One of those beats you can just loop in your ear for hours, unless you have a job, in which case, get the fu*k back to work and get off the internet!

        Original Album: Friday Afternoon In The Universe

DAMN! This boy is the funkiest white guy alive! I love this band! Here's Billy Martin bangin' away once again on a small solo from this track. Another clip follows below.

        Original Album: Friday Afternoon In The Universe

Another clip of the always-amazing Billy Martin, of Medeski, Martin & Wood. Wish I could meet this guy…

        Original Album: Friday Afternoon In The Universe

Just a quick little fill, but it's really cool! Actually this is two fills: one on the left channel and one on the right. I put them together to see how they'd sound together, and it turned out really great, so here ya' go…

        Original Album: It's A Jungle In Here

This is one of Billy Martin's trademark fills. It goes for 2 measures and includes at least one hit on every piece of solid material around him. I swear this cat's a genius…

        Original Album: Friday Afternoon In The Universe

No snare whatsoever, just this swinging bass and hi-hat loop. I like it, and it's extra groovy if you add a rim hit or something. I like the sound of the bass drum a lot, though, it's really full. I highly recommend this album to everyone. Billy Martin's a genius on the set, and this whole album is fucking awesome.

        Original Album: It's A Jungle In Here

This is the shit. I mean, it's not your typical hip-hop sample -- not by a long shot -- but it fuckin' grooves, man. It's sort of in the vein of an old-time Gene Krupa vibe or something. Swings and gets down with the smoothness.

        Original Album: It's A Jungle In Here

Another Billy Martin masterpiece. Very cool fill with the trademark octopus effect.

I don't care if you hate Medeski, Martin & Wood. Those boys can fu**in' groove! If you don't know them, they're a current group, into experimental funky jazz fusion type isht, and this drummer (Billy Martin) is phatter than Oprah Winfrey in a Dunkin' Donuts. Check this one out…this is my absolute favorite MMW beat, and one of my favorites from anywhere. I can't possibly recommend this one enough or do it justice in writing… Updated 12-1-99 to include the whole monster break!

A huge 20-second Zigaboo festival! Features some organ, but I'm getting lazy about that ish! Enjoy!

This is a hard-edged, simple one, the perfect sort for me, since I'm such a hard-edged kinda' guy...and simple, too. In fact, I shave with a bowie knife and then drool on my socks. Seriously, though, folks, I'll be here all week. Okay, okay, I'll shut up... Nice full drums, with bass hits that kick with the snare hits, and that recorded-too-hot sound you know I dig. Really short loop, and worth it to download, submitted by none other than Davisk the Damaga'!

Aw, shit, it's Zigaboo time! ...when you don't have a plan... This beat is like a big bowl of pork… I just wanted to leave you hangin' there with that pork bowl thing. So, I guess I should explain. But I'm not going to. This is another Meters (Zigaboo Modeliste) beat straight from the Davisk archives, funky and off-kilter as ever, with nice sparse ride-bell hits, and with that unstoppable groove that keeps you tappin' your feet. I think the Meters were in bed with the footwear industry, personally. They musta' worn out many a concert-goer's shoe in their day. That Zigaboo can bang. I just picture his Zigaboo-ass sittin' up there on that throne, flailing his arms all over the fuckin' place: it doesn't matter what he hits or when, it always comes out funky. It feels bad calling someone Zigaboo, though, like I'm gonna' get lynched for saying it or something. Maybe I'll call him Ziggy from now on to avoid controversy...or maybe Arthur…

This is a classic we all know and love, which was suggested by Davisk, who is Hell-bent on taking over this site. This one's so damn long and funky, just like my dic...tation. Yeah, my dictation. It's very verbose and garrulous and whatnot. That's what I meant... This is a Meters beat with hi-hat, that's all ya need to know.

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Submitted by Erock, sounds a lot like "Momma Miss America" by McCartney. The drums are loud, recorded too hot, and the hi-hat is the same. Great beat if you want a hardcore stand-out, doesn't sound like the Meters' other drum loops, but I ain't comlpaining...

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Here's my tribute to Mr. Dave's-Records, Sr. (or, "Dad", as we know him). It's a simple old-school beat I made out of TR808 sounds (all available on this page) and reflects "Dad's" appreciation of life's simpler pleasures. Duh, Da, Dee, you know... :)

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - This one is a really long solo-like thing that starts out all loud with cymbals blaring and then fades down to pianissimo (stick that up your treble clef!), so I just .mp2 compressed the whole 2.5 MB sucker down to 200 K.

        Original Album: Lee Michaels

Here's a nice drumbreak that leads into a monster, 10-minute+ drum solo! Whoah, I just don't have the server space for that, sorry! Anyway, this track is called "Tell Me How Do You Feel" or "(Don't Want No) Woman" or "My Friends" or "Frosty's" or "Think I'll Go Back". It's kinda hard to tell where the tracks separate, and most of the tracks are all just parts of this drum solo! What the fuck!? Anyway, check out this clip of Bartholomew Smith Frost (A.K.A. "Frosty") getting' down and funky for ya' in 1969.

        Original Album: The Divine Miss M

Here's a nice phatty for you, courtesy of my man Dan at JumpJump Records… This break is incredibly dope...almost identical to "Scorpio" by Dennis Coffey! I shit you not, my friends. I hereby unleash on the world: The Bette Midler Break!!

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.1

HEAVILY sampled!! Nice crazy fast loud low shaker beat! You'll recognize it, I promise! Okay, not everyone will recognize it, but it's a definite "Oh, THAT beat!" kind of track…

        Original Album: Dance to the Disco Sax (Buddah 1974)
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.17

Here's an extremely dope beat that was used by US3, and they somehow managed to make it sound bad, but then again, they're good at butchering drum beats. But fuck them, this straightforward, dope beat is so phat, check it out. It's got a nice change in the second half, so you don't even need to chop the shit up, it done been done already! Second half is equally as fly as the first, but more creative, and a little bit more zany, just like me.

        Original Album: Teachers

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Main Loop

        Original Album: Teachers

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - KRAAYZEE-Ass intro fill!!

        Original Album: Teachers

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Of the 2 main loop themes, this is the simplest of the set

        Original Album: Teachers

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - Here's the longest and most rhythmically complex of the three…

        Original Album: Teachers

DESCRIPTION IN PROGRESS - This one's just the cool little outro fill from the end of the break.

        Original Album: Motors 1
        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.17

Don't blame me if I spelled that guy's name wrong, it's not my fault, I copied it! Okay, I think I can declare this as the last of the loud, big rock and roll sounding drum beats here today! Yeah! It was starting to get pretty hard to write new things about them all... This one, like its brothers before it, is likely the creation of a slightly funky white person - I don't know, just guessing - and it has that great live reverbey sound white rock and rollers seem to go for... I go for it, too, if the beats are as nice as this one, pretty funky, with lots of cymbal, which makes it more exciting, but may make it harder to mix with other, more normal things. This file's a little large, but I wanted you to hear the whole thing, because I love you. Won't you be...my neighbor?

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.9

This sounds like the beat Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth used for "Ghettos of the Mind." What do you think? I'm I way off or what? I haven't compared them directly, so I can't say, but I really like this beat, another rocker. Maybe I should start buying rock albums, they have some good shit...naw, maybe I'll just stick to comps and let other people wade through it all for me... :)

        Original Album: Funky Snakefoot ('73)
        Comps: Electric Blue (Blue Note UK)

Drummer is Elvin Jones.

I've removed this loop from the site since Alphonse Mouzon emailed me threatening to...SUE ME!? Yes, that's right. He wants to get his fair share of my negative income from running this site all these years. So, let it be known: Alphonse, you're welcome to share my debt any time. P.S. Your music rocks but you've become a real bummer, bro.

        Original Album: Funky Snakefoot ('73)
        Comps: Electric Blue (Blue Note UK)

LOOP REMOVED after Alphonse threatened to sue me. Check out this letter he wrote me:

Dear Mr. Bernstein:
I found your site via Souldstrut.com bulletin board subsequent to my notice to sue them for a few million dollars for violating my copyrights and Capitol Records' copyrights. And guess what? You are also in violation of my copyrights.

There are several of my musical works ( "Funky Snake Foot" and "You Don't Know How Much I love You" drum loops) on your website that you are willfully allowing your users to download unto their samplers.

You are hereby notified to cease and desist immediately without fail - otherwise I would be forced to add you to the list of companies that I'm planning to sue in Federal Court.

Nothing herein shall be construed to be an election or waiver of any of my rights or remedies, which are expressly reserved.

Veraciously,
Alphonse Mouzon
Chairman/CEO/Record Artist
Mouzon Music Company

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.23

LOOP REMOVED after Alphonse threatened to sue me. Apparently he's compiling a list of companies he wants to sue and I made the list! Whoo hoo! Sounds like he has matured to lead a full and richly philosophical existence. I'm so glad to hear he's given up music for lawsuits.

I like this beat a lot, and it's a good last one to write about, because it deserves to be written about. This first part is the main loop, simple, basic, phat, and extremely versatile and usable as-is. It's a straight beat, but very funky nonetheless, go Alphonze! Check Part 2 (below) for more creative funkiness and embellishments (whoah, that was a big word).

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.23

Well, in the interest of consistency, I have removed this loop from the site as well. Alphonse, that old trickster, has threatened to sue me if I don't remove all his loops. And, misguided as his vexatiousness is, I will comply with his wishes. I think everyone who’s used this site since it started years ago is well aware that it's not here for money or even for circumventing the record sales industry. It's here like a library, for information, and for education. I always encourage people to pick up the albums and research their favorite artists. But, I guess old Alphonse didn't pick up on that and assumed I was one of the bad guys... Oh well, your loss Alphonse, I was trying to spread the word about your music with small sound clips a few seconds long and some kind words to back them up. I guess I was threatening to you, or looked like a hearty monetary meal, since I'm such a financial powerhouse with debts I can't even keep up with. I assure you that any lawsuits against me would be quite pointless as I have no money and run this site at a loss. But hey, don't let that stop you, sue away my friend!

Here's the second part, another one that sounds kinda' like that Super Mario Brothers 3 underground music, but that's just my opinion. Similar to Part 1, but with a nice long fill at the end and some variations on the beat. Same phat drums, same phat drummer, how could you go wrong? And that does it for me tonight, hope you enjoyed your 56 new free Phat Beats, more will come as soon as I recover! Don't forget to check the Mystery Beats Page and email me with comments, suggestions, and requests. Remind me that I'm doing this for a reason!

        Original Album: Juicy Fruit ('85)?

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        Original Album: Snowbird
        Comps: Drum Crazy 1

From the "Snowbird" album comes this sampled beat among sampled beats, not to mention the theme song for one of my Sureel buddies, who has about 698 (at last count) different versions of this song, each one with an open break, and each one found sealed in random thrift shops around his house for no more than 11 cents each, mint. This is my favorite version of this catchy song that I've heard so far. And, actually, I couldn't get this fucking song out of my head after hearing it, and as I was driving back home to Oakland across the Bay Bridge last week, I started thinking of new lyrics for the song about the Brita Water Filter, for some ODD reason:
     "Put your hand in the hand of the man who distilled the water...
     Put your hand in the hand of the man who made it iron-free...
     Put your hand in the hand of the Brita Water Filter, then you'll see...
     That it's flowin' in your glass, like it's fresh from a mountain stream..."
MAN, I'm glad I got that off my chest, now I can continue with my life…

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2

Very nice loop along the lines of "Hunk Of Funk" by Jack McDuff. Ends up with a little Meters-y guitar riff. Nice one.

Philip Davis sent me this and told me that it was sampled by Black Sheep on "Black With No N.V." What else need you know about it? Well, how about the fact that the bass drum sounds like a floor tom? How about THAT fact, eh!?

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        Original Album: Educated Homegrown
        Comps: Drum Crazy 1

This beat is funky and chillin', just as you have come to expect from my funky, chillin' ass, right? The second half has more story to tell, but check the first half first, and then go to the second half and be blown away. But be a little blown away by the first half, too, because it rocks. :) This one is one of the most famous drum breaks out of this batch [originally posted 9-7-98]. It was used by DJ Greyboy for "Panacea", which was featured on the "Get Shorty" soundtrack. I remember when I saw that movie, the minute I heard this drum beat, I couldn't focus on the rest of the movie. It was so awesome, how the snare casually rolled into the bass drum hits. It was completely funky, and it flowed like the crack in James Brown's veins. You GOT TO check this one out, it's fly. Bzzz.…

        Comps: Strange Beats vol.1

This is a huge solo that is fucking wicked. I can't remember what the song was like, but this shit is nice! The drums are really unique with this cool "room" reverb sound… And there's a really fast crazy-ass fill at the end, so don't let your attention defecit disorder fuck wit' ya before you finish the track!

        Original Album: Harry ('69)
        Comps: Drum Crazy 2

Here's a really nice slow groover that's been used by The Rhythm Section (on their track "Waiting for the Sun"), the Beatnuts, and probably even your mother. It's really slow and chill, with two different fills. It starts out with a fill and a nice cymbal hit, and ends with a different fill at the end. Homey Nilsson be getting' funky straight up on the trippy cartoon tip, too, check out "The Point" sometime, and find out all about me and my arrow.

        Comps: Ultimate Breaks & Beats vol.22

Films? Like, just in general? I don't get it. This is another heavy rock-sounding beat, very big and loud and echoey, but with a slight hint of funkiness - of course, why else would it be here? It's another "We will...we will rock you" sort of deal, you know the drill...

        Original Album: Give Tomorrow's Children One More Chance

You know the beat… phat.

        Original Album: Ohio Players' "Funky Worm" Single Only; Detroit Emeralds' LP Only
        Comps: Red Hot Beats

See "You're Getting A Little Too Smart" by the Detroit Emeralds

        Original Album: Skin Tight

Another rhythm that sounds like the "underground" levels in Super Mario Bros. 3. But of course, the drums sound better than that… This one's dope, with homeboy lettin' his lady have a piece of his mind… :) Updated 12-17-2000 to ADPCM and longer break (original file submitted by Davisk)

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Erock sent me this one, and I be glad he did. You will be, too, because this swinger has some phat bass, and a hi-hat that gonna' get 'cho feet tappin'. Tap tap tap, bitch, with your Lord-of-the-Dance-ass, because you can't fight the funk! Simple, yet effective, just like a blowj... I mean, just like, um... let's move on. Updated 12/17/2000 to ADPCM with hi-hat solo at end (original file submitted by Erock)

        Comps: Batteria For The Beatheads vol.2