Specimen A - Forgot About Breaks

Posted by Matt Oliver at 24/01/2011 12:09:00

Sampling a certain Motor City loudmouth, Spec A go ferocious before dipping their breaks into a mountain of soda fizz.

Instant thoughts are turned to Specimen A doing deals with Dr Dre and Eminem, something that could get the curious picking this up on title alone. True indeed Mr Mathers does make a sampled appearance, though it’s Kurtis Blow providing the punchline, and it’s gonna take more than just a cameo from the 8 Miler, almost as if Spec A have found the sample casually lying around and are determined to work it into their latest program by whatever means, to get things busy. Forgot About Breaks spits along as per normal satellite navigation, with flatulent turbo boosts and synth serrations flinging themselves around kamikaze-ly for a high-low battering around the arcade, and it takes a crushing dubstep interlude with stupendously-sized fire-breathing nostrils to ensure the track avoids playing up to its title. 
 
Where You Get That, hip-hop samples again invited into the mix, is bubbly, loving nothing more than shaking up a bottle rocket full of synths until the screw-top can take no more. Again the bassline trumps like a particularly gassy Velcro fastener, tugging at breaks covered in cupcake icing, running rivers of milkshakes and splashing around in fountains of Sunny Delight, and a breakdown dancing on its tiptoes around synth crystals. This amount of sugar intake means the Spec boys are prone to running around in circles, then forgetting its reasons for doing so, but you can’t knock it for a spurt of light-headed pop to the lock.
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