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It’s summer, it’s hot and here’s consistently dope Texan funk crew T Bird & The Breaks to send the sexual temperature rising too. Waxin’ turns on an insistent pulsing b-line and is ostensibly (not to mention ironically, since this is a digital single) all about T Bird’s old lady’s obsession with records. But with a hook like, “I wanna go waxin daddy” it’s clear she’s after more than vinyl
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Tag Archives: The Breaks
T BIRD & THE BREAKS: Waxin b/w No Diggity (2013) Free download + video
CHART – May 2013
(NEW)1. T Bird & The Breaks – I Gets My Boogie On (Mako & The Hawk remix)
Shades of Coldcut’s remix of ‘Paid In Full’ and Loaded-era Primal Scream anyone?
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T BIRD & THE BREAKS: I Gets My Boogie On (Mako & The Hawk remix) (2013)
(PRESS RELEASE) Ladies and gentleman, fetch your dancing shoes – it’s the brand-new, debut official remix from dj/ production duo Mako & The Hawk who rework I Gets My Boogie On by Texan funk crew T Bird & The Breaks on a grand scale. Evoking shades of Coldcut’s version of Eric B & Rakim’s Paid In Full and Primal Scream’s Loaded, the reflective gospel-tinged soul of the original
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THE CALVIN OWENS SHOW: The Cat (Sammy P edit)(2012) Free download
Sammy P (a.k.a. Sam Patlove of Texan chunk-funk crew T Bird & The Breaks) gets in on the edits business by reworking The Cat by big band funk man Calvin Owens of Houston, Texas. The ‘editing’ on this one is right at the business end of the breakbeat spectrum taking the original into the sonic big country known to all and sundry as b-boy breaks land. The resulting barrage of percussion
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T BIRD & THE BREAKS: Somebody Had A Drinking Problem Last Night (2012) + video
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Robert Jay once sang, “Alcohol oh alcohol, got to put you down/ Taken all my money, threw me on the ground.” Coincidentally, it’s this snippet of his classic heavy funk cut Alcohol that opens the video to T Bird & The Breaks‘ brand new single – sleazy roadhouse soul stomper “Somebody Had A Drinking Problem Last Night” – another song which conveys
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T BIRD & THE BREAKS: Just Gettin Started (K Sabroso’s Mackronomics Lesson) (2012) Free download
In the run-up to the release of next single Somebody Had A Drinking Problem Last Night, Texan chunk-funk crew T Bird & The Breaks drop a free remix of Just Gettin Started off their last EP Dancehall Freakin. Fiddling with the knobs is K Sabroso – clearly a man for whom the guitars were too loud and the drums weren’t loud enough on the original – not that they were what you’d call quiet before or anything. On Sabroso’s
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BEASLEY/PRICE: Is/Are Here (2012) Free download
Beasley Price might sound a bit like a high street furniture store (“Did you see – there’s a half price sale on down at Beasley Price?”) but they’re actually former members of Texan funk crew T Bird & The Breaks and they’ve got an LP out called Is/Are Here. The sound on it is somewhere between old school NY electro from the eighties and Muscle Shoals soul from the sixties which
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T BIRD & THE BREAKS: Dancehall Freakin EP (2012)
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Texan chunk funk crew T Bird & The Breaks broaden their already catholic approach to the funk with the Dancehall Freakin EP, trying their hand at b-boy breaks on the one hand and squalling funk rock on the other. Normally accompanied by girl-backing vox, the ladies for whatever reason are noticeable by their absence on this. And apparently
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JOHN ALLISON: Good So Bad (2012)
Anyone who caught Texan funkers’ T Bird & The Breaks storming second LP Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive will know it isn’t just gravel-vocalled T Bird who sings in the band. Aside from a roster of backing singers that includes soul queen in waiting Sasha Ortiz, guitarist Johnny ‘Too Bad’ Allison also stepped up to the mic for album track Paranoia For Ya and rocked a Rare Earth/ James Gang style vocal. That’s a mega-lengthy preamble
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T BIRD & THE BREAKS: Everything Unto Me (2011) + video
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Still criminally unsigned, prolific Texan funk outfit T Bird & The Breaks deliver Everything Unto Me – their first single since the release of second LP Never Get Out Of This Funk Alive and it’s new material that wasn’t even on the album. Everything Unto Me is a heavy, heavy downtempo jam that updates the traditional funk/ soul blueprint via a dash of hip-hop production
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