Thread by @micro_chop

1) A Breakbeat Lou/'Ultimate Breaks & Beats' reading list.

2) Ultimate Breaks & Beats: An Oral History

How one essential vinyl collection transformed the sound of music and helped funky beats conquer the world

Article by @unkut via @CuepointMusic

medium.com/cuepoint/ultim…

3) Amen, Brother: Breakbeat Lou and The Legacy of “Ultimate Breaks and Beats”

Breakbeat Lou is the man behind nearly every classic hip hop beat made from 1986-1997. Sweeney Kovar speaks with the original 45 king.

By Sweeney Kovar via @Passionweiss

passionweiss.com/2014/11/21/ame…

4) "There’s a certain way that I edited ‘Impeach The President’ – there’s a slight pop on one of the edits that you can hear – and people tend to sample that and they have no idea that I can tell."- Breakbeat Lou

Article by Robbie Ettelson via @unkut

unkut.com/2015/06/breakb…

5) "There’s a lot of stuff that people are looking for, for samples or boom bap drums, that’s simple. I’m looking for… I love structures of records, the full soul of a song that you can really feel."- Breakbeat Lou

By @jamieGroovement via Groovement

groovement.co.uk/2015/10/interv…

6) "Your mixing skills had to be on point because you had very little pitch control...you had to know how to throw the records in because the slb-101 belt drive would drag if you didn’t know what you were doing."- Breakbeat Lou

Article by @djleanrock

leanrock.com/2011/in-the-cr…

7) "I would put the record in the bathtub with water so the label completely comes off. So, you wouldn’t know anything."- Breakbeat Lou

Article by @justinstrauss1 via @acehotel

reader.acehotel.com/music/just-tal…

8) It Only Takes Six Seconds To Hear The World’s Most Sampled Song

Article by @dgoldenberg via @FiveThirtyEight

fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-m…

9) "It changed so much that in 1995, in the Billboard top 100 singles chart, of the 52 weeks in the year, for 37 weeks there were records [charted] that sampled something from Street Beat Records."- Breakbeat Lou

Article/video by @SerkoFu via @RBMA

redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/break…

10) “Again, you gotta understand something. Our collection was like a subculture. Only hardcore DJs and hardcore diggers and producers gravitated to them."- Breakbeat Lou

Article by @jamieGroovement via @nowthenmag

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/break…

11) Discogs Mix 44- Breakbeat Lou

Article by @shooezgirl via @discogs

blog.discogs.com/en/discogs-mix…

12) Building Blocks

Article by @monkuno via @waxpoetics

songwriting2018.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/ultima…