Artist: Breakestra: mp3 download Genre(s): funk Other Rap: Hip-Hop Dance Discography: Hit the Floor Year: 2005 Tracks: 14 The Breakestra Live Mix Tape 1 Year: Tracks: 1 Sexy Popcorn Pot Year: Tracks: 4 Live Mix, Pt. 1 Year: Tracks: 24 Live Mix Part 2 Year: Tracks: 28 Formed by breaks demon Miles Tackett, Breakestra is a forever morphing hip-hop orchestra based in Los Angeles. The grouping came together in 1997-1997 just about Tackett's DJ gigs at a coffeehouse. A multi-instrumentalist whose sour on violoncello has appeared on recordings by B.B. King, Macy Gray, and Black Eyed Peas, Tackett was a funk fan wHO got into hip-hop during the late '80s -- courtesy of the Ultramagnetic classical Critical Beatdown -- when he completed it was keeping the blue funk flame live. A like to act instrumental hip-hop in a band linguistic context brought the group in concert, with Tackett aboard drummer Josh "Wallet" Cohen, reed player Geoff "Dual G" Gallegos, trumpeters Todd Simon and Paul Vargas, trombone player Dan Osterman, keyboard player Carlos Guaico, percussionist Davy Chegwidden, guitarist Dan Ubick, and vocalists Sol Sista DeMya and Mixmaster Wolf (aka Stones Throw boss Peanut Butter Wolf). Their baseball club night, Root Down, brought in crowds, along with the skim off of the rap metro (Jurassic period 5, Dilated Peoples, Company Flow, DJ Shadow, Freestyle Fellowship), and their first single, "Getcho Soul Togetha," appeared on Stones Throw in 1999. That year also brought an intriguing demo called The Live Mix Tape -- including Breakestra covers of a host of deep blue funk classics -- merely an official passing (as The Live Mix, Pt. 1) waited until 2001 and but appeared in Japan. The second base volume followed afterwards that year, and was released on Stones Throw. In 2005 Breakestra recorded a single, Sept Rap, featuring Chali 2na and Soup from Jurassic 5 and Double K from People Under the Stairs, and as well released their third base studio album, Attain the Floor, on Ubiquity Records, with a about alone different lineup. |