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Break. As in “breakbeat.” That ten second slice of percussive magic in the middle of a funk song that, when looped together by progressive South Bronx DJs in the 1970s, became the basis of the hip-hop movement. Arkestra. Out-there jazzer Sun Ra’s funkafied concept of the stuffy classical orchestra. Flip the script and you wind up with a unique definition of the 10 piece, Los Angeles based ensemble known as The Breakestra.

The Breakestra was born as the result of a vision by bassist/guitarist/upright cellist/producer Miles Tackett. Tackett fell in love with hip-hop after hearing Ultramagnetic MC’s’ Critical Beatdown in the late 1980s – the era in which tons of dusty drum breaks and funky samples first saw the light of day via enterprising hip hop producers such as Paul C., Pete Rock, Large Professor and DJ Premier. “In retrospect, I see that I gravitated towards hip hop because of its roots in funk music, “ Tackett told URB Magazine in 1999. “Now I realize that hip hop is the only music keeping funk alive.”

In 1996, Tackett more actively embraced his role as cultural preservationist. As part of the original crew that produced LA’s weekly coffeehouse series The Breaks, Tackett spun records by The Meters, Kool & The Gang and The JB’s. But he was a musician before he was a DJ.
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    The best! <3

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    F.O.D.A.

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    The British isles and the market aisles. Let's all funk dance to breakestra for miles and isles and aisles

    February 2012

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    if it were up to me breakestra would play over the speakers in every grocery store. So I could funk dance down the isles

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Joyful Noise EP Out Now!

15 Sep 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/breakestra

There may be another two weeks before the new album Dusk Till Dawn hits the streets, but that doesn’t mean you need to wait to get your fix of the funk. A digital EP and vinyl 12” featuring the …

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