Over at the vinyl collector message board
, DJ Kool Breez—a former Unruly Records club producer from the early/mid-'90s era, local beatmaker, and all-around record obsessive—dropped a genre-spanning, all-vinyl mix titled
Groove Stew
. The focus is breaks and beats (or "braeks" as record nerds call them), both well known and obscure (or "raer" as they're called on the boards and eBay auctions) and, of course, there's no tracklist—but that's part of the fun. You gotta figure this stuff out yourself. So, listen hard and resist the temptation to reach for your iPhone's Shazam app, and begin a dig into the digital crates. When Breez bounces from some stray, wandering slab of folky jazz—if this is something obvious, I've just played myself—into Leon Haywood's "I Wanna Do Something Freaky to You," aka the sample from Dr. Dre's "Nuthin But A G Thang," we can all feel that twinge of recognition and know what it's like to possess a percentage of Breez's break-beat knowledge. Download
Groove Stew
or
.
