Phokus Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Break name: Do The Do Artist: Kurtis BlowTrack name: Do The DoOriginal release: LP, Kurtis Blow ? DeuceLabel: Mercury/PolygramCat number: 6337 178Year: 1981Drummer: Jimmy Bralower Examples: Wax Doctor - "Kid Caprice"; Adam F - "Circles" CLIP HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phokus Posted January 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2006 Clip added Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeMyself&I Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 The correct link would be kurtis_blow-do_the_do.mp3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neurotix Posted August 19, 2010 Report Share Posted August 19, 2010 I thought it would be good to mention Skanna - Find me as i am pretty sure it also uses this break but uses much more of the beginning drums before the rides\cymbals come in. It really almost sounds like a completely different break, but for a tiny bit of ambient mic bleed. Considering you can then HP filter the rides from the second part of the beat and slap them on top, it makes the break much more malleable. The claps can then be edited out and can be made much tighter should you desire to layer another break over the top. The intro fill has been used many a time as a beat in its own right too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeMyself&I Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Check out Dj Krust's remix of "Music in my mind". It uses the break completely without cymbals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phokus Posted September 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 Yeh pretty sure there's a section without cymbals in the original Kurtis Blow track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Nah, the original has cymbals throughout the entire breakdown - BUT, if you turn the release down on the samples once its cut up you can eliminate pretty much all of the ride noise and end up with something very similar to what Krust has above. A little bit more judicious slicing would give you an almost identical result Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phokus Posted April 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 There are sections other than the breakdown in which the break is clear, too, if I recall correctly. Will dig out my copy later... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droid Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Yeah, now you mention it, theres a bunch of clean loops at the start. Not as good as the main loops, but probably useful: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyDavid Posted July 14, 2011 Report Share Posted July 14, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwjJAnhDrWI Also Manix - Back To Burn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornette Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 Just giving some thought as to the time this break got first used... Other than Unit 1 "Atlantic Drama" which I'm often fond of mentioning came before Horizons, I had figured the first time must be this from 1993: Tom & Jerry - side AA, track 3 http://www.rolldabea..._jerry/shell007 The breaks a bit back to front hence why probably not obvious at first, although i see Anthony posted a video for it above... However I have since come across a usage that pre-dates that! It's this on the Alien & Monster record label: 3 Thieves & A Liar - Forseeing The Future (Regga Mix) [1992]http://www.rolldabea...r_records/mdf14 To be honest, it was only from forcing myself to listen to the b-side mix of this 12" that I even noticed; by my days what a crazy tune it is. The beat is completely off canter to everything else, the bassline goes up and down and all over the shop - it makes no sense! It even sounds like they've slipped some quarter tones in there. And that's not taking the piano riff into account, i don't know what chord group they're using but it sounds odd. Obviously been fiendishly designed to make some poor soul that's just come up on 'E' feel like they're losing even more of the plot... I wonder if it was it was ever played at an event? :rolleyes: Prior to that, well I suppose there was Black Sheep "Strobelite Honeys" from 1991, but that's from using the bit without the ride cymbal. Oh and its hip hop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ornette Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 So, looks like I've found the first clear usage of this break - and that's prior to the odd usage in the Tom & Jerry track... though after the 3 Thieves & A Liar / Alien track (that uses a different part, anyway) SMD - side B, track 1 [sDO1]http://www.rolldabea.../11183/smd/sd01 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSUJFWThsxQ All accounts of this put it around mid 1993 - discogs has it as July 1993 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garx Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 for anyone who wondered where people used to take the reverbed version from: Drumdrops Vol. 10 (Essential Breaks And Grooves For DJ's) (1992) [Big Break] -> A3. Happy Break https://www.discogs.com/release/660221-Unknown-Artist-Drumdrops-Vol-10-Essential-Breaks-And-Grooves-For-DJs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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