BASSLINES AND BREAKBEATS

As I've gotten older, I've appreciated the complex brilliance of complicated arrangements and layers of melodies and rhythms. But hey, sometimes you just like getting back to the basics: a good bassline and a breakbeat. It's certainly one of the solid foundations of hip-hop beats in the vaunted Golden Era and I still can't help but gravitate towards them.Think of Clyde Stubblefield and Bootsy Collins double-teaming the breakdown on James Brown's "Give It Up or Turn It Loose" or Afro-Latin groove...

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