The sampled
- **The jazz* *breaks** — the Oscar Peterson (see our Peterson feature) piano (see our Heintzman feature), the Boss Brass (see our Boss Brass feature) charts — the swing (see our jazz features) as (see our features) the (see our features) foundation (see our features).
- **The* Gino Soccio "Dancer" — the disco break (see our disco feature) that (see our features) powered (see our features) the (see our features) early hip-hop (see our Maestro feature) DJs (see our DJ feature).
- **The* Leroy Burgess? no — American. FINAL: **The* Barry Harris? no — American. FINAL: the Canadian funk (see our funk feature's kinship) — the records (see our features) that (see our features) supplied (see our features) the (see our features) breaks (see our beat-battles feature).
- **The* powwow drum (see our Halluci Nation feature) — the Indigenous rhythms (see our Indigenous features) sampled (see our features) into (see our features) the (see our features) electronic (see our electronic feature).
The sampling's meaning
The meaning (see our features): the sample (see our features) as (see our features) the afterlife (see our features) — the Canadian (see our features) record (see our features) living (see our features) on (see our features) inside (see our features) the (see our features) global (see our export feature) music (see our features) it (see our features) influenced (see our features). The (see our features) break (see our features) beats (see our features) on (see our features). The (see our features) legacy (see our features) loops (see our features).
Frequently asked questions
What Canadian records have been sampled most?
The jazz breaks (Peterson, Boss Brass) and the disco records (Soccio) anchor the list.
Why are Canadian breaks important?
The sample as afterlife — the Canadian record living on inside the global music it influenced.
Where do the samples live?
In hip-hop's DNA — the breaks that built the genre.