Super Breaks: Essential Funk, Soul, & Jazz Samples and Breakbeats (1999)

About this title: Like the rest of the Super Breaks series, the first volume is ostensibly built around records that have been sampled by hip-hoppers, but can really be enjoyed by anyone looking for some quality obscure soul funk. The 20 tracks here span the late 1960s to the late 1970s, balanced between little-known tracks by noted artists (Jackie Wilson, Isaac Hayes, the Blackbyrds), mid-level soul artists (Syl Johnson, the Emotions, the Detroit Emeralds, the Soul Children, Fatback Band), and non-hitmakers, with a couple of actual well-known cuts (Joe Simon's "Drowning in the Sea of Love" and Lowell Fulson's ... read more

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Ike's Mood [Hayes]
3. Light My Fire [Densmore/Krieger/Ma]
4. Different Strokes [Cameron/Zachary]
5. Thinking Single [Davis]
6. Blind Alley [Porter]
7. Take Yo' Praise [Yarbrough]
8. What a Man [Crawford]
9. Tramp [Fulson/McCracklin]
10. Smokey Joe's la La [Vikki]
11. E.V.A. [Badale/Prilly/Perre]
12. Rock Creek Park [Kilgo/Hall/Saunders]
13. Got to Learn How to Dance [Curtis/Cornwell]
14. Bouncy Lady [Hepburn]
15. Drowning in the Sea of Love [Gamble/Huff]
16. Walk Tall [Marrow/Rein/Zawinul]
17. Burning Spear [Evans]
18. Tramp [Instrumental] [Fulson/McCracklin]
19. Chick a Boom [Dupree/Jensen/Landr]
20. Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms) [Tilmon]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.