Stones Throw
2001
The Live Mix Part 2 (Live)
About This Album
A year or so before there was an actual band called Breakestra, there existed a first Breakestra recording. An explanation is required. In 1996, Miles Tackett gathered together a group of friends for an extended jam session. The object: take vintage soul, funk, and jazz breaks and replay them as a live "mix," sort of funk with a hip-hop ethos. That session was recorded and became the cassette-only collector's item Live Mix, Pt. 1. The group, under Tackett's direction, would eventually evolve into Breakestra, and it sold the cassette in the Los Angeles nightclubs where it held a showcase fittingly called "The Breaks." By 2000, Breakestra had finally emerged on the international music scene, and after word had gotten out about Live Mix, Pt. 1 (particularly in Europe), Tackett and manager Charles Raggio decided to make it available for the first time on CD as a limited run of 1,000 copies, sold exclusively through online retailer Giant Peach. (It was also later made available in Japan by Stones Throw with initial sales of Breakestra's Live Mix, Pt. 2.) A complicated back-story that still doesn't answer the important question: Is it worth going to the trouble of tracking down? Indeed, it is.
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