The HedRush Episode #36 - Ultimate Beats and Breaks, featuring Thes One

It's time for a special episode of the HedRush, our celebration of the classic Ultimate Beats and Breaks collection. And this time, we've got a little help in breaking down the importance of and the context for all 144 tracks of dopeness: MC/producer/crate digger extradinaire,Thes One of People Under the Stairs. Thes graciously took time out of his busy schedule to let us interview him (at an earlier date) about what makes the UBB collection so damn dope. All that, plus we play more music that ever before. It's an all around banner episode for the Podcast.

Below is the playlist. Note that we included the music we played during the interludes as well, as the songs are either tracks from the collection, or instrumental versions of the tracks.

Here's the playlist:

Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun
The Politicians - Free Your Mind
Freda Payne - Easiest Way to Fall
Friends and Lovers - Reach Out to the Darkness
Marvin Gaye - T Plays It Cool
- Interlude
Stanley Turrentine - Sister Sanctified
Bobby Byrd - I Know You Got Soul (Inst.)
Olympic Runners - Put the Music Where Your Mouth Is
- Interlude End
The Monkees - Mary, Mary
The Emotions - Blind Alley
Herman Kelly & Life - Dance to the Drummer's Beat
Melvin Bliss - Synthetic Substitution
The Honey Drippers - Impeach the President
- Interlude
James Brown - Funky President (inst.)
- Interlude End
Eddie Bo - Hook & Sling
The VIllage Callers - Hector
Brother Soul - Cookes
Johnny Pate - Shaft in Africa
Lightning Rod - Sport
- Interlude
The Meters - Hand Clapping Song (inst.)
- Interlude end
Esther Williams - Last Night Changed it All
Dyke and the Blazers - Let a Woman Be a Woman, Let a Man Be a Man
Joe Tex - Papa Was Too
Lyn Collins - Think (About It)
The Winstons - Amen, Brother
- Interlude
Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed (inst.)
John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack & Diane (inst.)
- Interlude end
James Brown - Funky Drummer
Syl Johnson - Different Strokes
The Mohawks - The Champ
Foster Sylvers - Misdemeanor
The Jackson 5 - It's Great to Be Here
- Interlude
Galactic Force Band - Space Dust
The Whole Darn Family - Seven Minutes of Funk
Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
Billy Squire - Big Beat (inst.)
Wilson Pickett - Get Me Back On Time, Engine #9 (inst.)
- Interlude end
Boobie Smith - Lovomaniacs (Sex)

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