The Ultimate Breaks & Beats Instrumentals, faithfully recreated by Brooklyn's monstrous El Michels Affair, features thirteen of the most popular cuts from the UBB series as start to finish instrumentals.
Up until now, these songs were never available as instrumental-only and producers have been forced to work around the grunts, screams, and crooning of these classics to isolate that perfect drum beat, breakdown, or sample. Those most notorious for sampling these originals include a who's who of Rap's best such as DJ Premier, Large Professor, The Bomb Squad, Pete Rock, Dr. Available in 7" format, 12" EP, CD, and even mp3, the UBB series has also served as the muse for compilations that followed including the Strictly Breaks series. Consisting of music released during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, this series has been done and redone released and re-released. The Ultimate Breaks & Beats series is a 25-volume collection of songs that serve as the backbone to the world of sampled music. On record, The Grits manage to keep the rawness alive, whilst upping the stakes sonically with modular analogue synths, piano, harmonica and even a huge metal cabinet played with a stick. Add to this super-modulated Moog, a bag of percussion and their trademark guttural vocal grunts and you have a live show that never fails to work their live audiences into a funk frenzy. With their roots firmly steeped in classic funk, The Grits add their own slant with trashy guitars, crunchy drums and deep bass. Their self titled debut includes a superb cover of The Soul Drifters “Funky Soul Brother”, as well as “Boom Boom”, the sold out 45 released on Freestyle and its B side ‘Jan Jan’ - an instant raw funk classic championed by Radio 2’s Mark Lamarr and Radio 6 funkster Craig Charles. Bassist James and drummer Johnny were recruited soon after, marking the birth of one seriously slick funk four piece. Their journey began in 2005 with guitarist Stuart “Countryboy” Carter and Nick “The Organiser” Harris. Hailing from Brighton, The Grits emerge with their own take on raw, rare and grimy instrumental funk. It was released on a compilation album Soul Christmas in 1968. "Backdoor Santa" is a song written by Clarence Carter in collaboration with Marcus Daniel, and originally performed by Carter. Several more soul singles followed, like "Snatching It Back," "At The Dark End of the Street," "The Feeling Is Right," "Doing Our Thing" and "Patches." "Patches", (first recorded by Chairmen of the Board), was a UK number 2 and a US number 4 in 1970, and was nominated for a Grammy in 1972. Several more solid singles followed, until Carter released "Slip Away," which hit number 6 on the Pop Charts.
Carter continued as a solo act, signing to the Fame Records label for 1967's Tell Daddy. Could their time together, coupled with a dash of Christmas spirit, lead to a miracle change of heart for them both?īook 3 in Helen's Spotlight series but they can all be read as standalone stories.Born in Montgomery, Alabama on 14 January, 1936, Clarence Carter's long career and strong soul sound perhaps earned him his most commercial exposure when RUN DMC sampled the horn break from Carter's song "Backdoor Santa" for their own funky Yuletide masterpiece, "Christmas in Hollis."Ĭarter had varying success with through the sixties recording in Muscle Shoals as a musician, releasing singles on Atco and Atlantic. Christmas might be a time for miracles, but Blake seems to be a lost cause.īut Emily’s reasons for abandoning her dancing passion means she understands the Hollywood wild child more than she’d like to admit. She’s certainly not star-struck when Hollywood heart-throb Blake Harris is sent to her at short notice for community service, and has no desire to babysit the arrogant actor with his bad boy antics and selfish ways. Now the only dancing she does is teaching lonely pensioners to waltz, and the closest she gets to disco balls is making baubles with the homeless people in her Christmas crafts class. Ex-dancer Emily Williams turned her back on the sparkle of popular dancing show Strictly Dancing with Celebs to help those in need.
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