Breakestra
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Breakestra is a funk music project of Miles "music man" Tackett's based in Los Angeles, California.Breakestra was first formed in 1997 as a strictly live ensemble playing "covers" of funk & soul-jazz music (breaks) that had been sampled in late 80s & early 90s hip-hop seamlessly blended into each other in the same style that the foundation bronx based funk (hip hop) djs would do back in the pre sampling days of the1970's when they would dj records at block parties.
Miles Tackett, also known as "Musicman", records, composes, plays bass,upright cello, guitar, keyboards and drums. He also sings along with the other front man Mix Master Wolf. The style in which the breakestra plays in the live setting & on record is much influenced by late 60's and early 70's funk & soul-jazz music, & the respective samples that were used in late 80s/early 90s hip hop as The Live Mix, Part 1 and The Live Mix, Part 2 show.
After releasing their first 7 inch single "Getcho Soul Togetha" (an original compoosition in fact) in 1999 on Stones Throw records and two full-length albums of mostly covers and sample-filled breaks, Breakestra put out Hit the Floor in 2005 on Ubiquity Records, which included all-original recordings fusing elements of hip hop, funk, and soul.Tackett put together another original full length, "Dusk Till Dawn" in late 2009 that featured guest rapper Chali 2na, the late DJ DUSK & soul vocalist Afrodyete "the african goddess of love".Tackett continues to bring different incarnations of Breakestra out on tour when not working on projects in his home studio.
Discography
- The Live Mix, Part 1 -Rootdown records (1999)
- The Live Mix, Part 2 Stonews throw records (2000)
- Hit The Floor (Ubiquity Records 2005)
- Dusk Till Dawn Strut records (2009)
