THE SUN USED TO SHINE: SYNTHETIC SUBSTITUTION

Melvin Bliss: Synthetic SubstitutionFrom 7" single (Sunburst, 1973)UBB: Synthetic SubstitutionFrom 7" single (Street Beat, 2009)It took a long, long, long time, but I finally got around to copping Melvin Bliss' breakbeat classic, "Synthetic Substitution." In a sense, it's a song I've heard many times, at least the first bar, given how popular a drum break it's been. But it's been a long time since I actually listened to the song itself and when it arrived in the mail, I threw it on and just let ...

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