TRACKLIST
A1 Intro
A2 Oyster Sammich
A3 Mr. Lord Finesse
A4 Bottle O' Moet
A5 We Goin' To Sizzler!
A6 Friday The 13th
A7 Mallet Murder (Part I)
A8 The Evans Family TV Set
A9 Drug Rug
A10 Intoxicated Skull
A11 Caliente!
A12 The Jumpy Tambourine
A13 Dr. Boogie
A14 Manatee
A15 Groove Stuff
A16 Skippy N' Jif
A17 Mr. John Wicks / Drum Coffee
A18 Jive Ass Coffee
A19 Lou & Leo / Intermission
B1 Popcorn Ceiling
B2 Xylo-Crook
B3 Needles N' Pins
B4 Pseudo-Solo / Mr. Marco Polo
B5 Mallet Murder (Part II)
B6 Bill N' James' Excellent Adventure
B7 Old Soul
B8 Dribblin N' Droolin'
B9 A Badd Trip
B10 For Redd
B11 What Snare?!
B12 Headbuster
B13 Black Tube Sox
B14 Ride Or Die
B15 The Soul Stomper
B16 Ghostly Mood
B17 Komodo Dragon
B18 Truck Jewelry
DESCRIPTION
PRESSED ON WHITE VINYL
“33 KO’s at 33 RPM!”
J-Zone’s fifth drum break library, Concussion Percussion, brings together the individual strong suits of its predecessors for an all-in-one groove blizzard, the NYC drummer’s most complete and versatile to date. 33 breaks deep, it’s nearly double the size of 2019’s Break Bonanza and 2015’s Backyard Breaks and just tips the scales over 2018’s Guerrilla Drums and the inaugural Lunch Breaks from 2014. After speaking with numerous producers and discovering each had a different favorite, J sat at the drums intent on putting a new spin on the best attributes of each one and throwing in some experimentation.
The random commentary and human error of J learning his craft on Lunch Breaks shows up, but so does the eventual precision of Break Bonanza. The rhythmic and tempo experimentation of Guerrilla Drums resurfaces, but the hard-smacking one-two of Backyard Breaks also remains. Then there’s stuff unique to Concussion Percussion: free-wheeling mallet grooves, psychedelic ride cymbal effects and the “something outta nothing” use of crappy coffee beans for quirky snare drum sounds.
With Madlib’s recent sampling of “Ode To Sloppy Joe” (from Lunch Breaks) on his single, “Road of the Lonely Ones,” the super-producer joins Broken Bells, Alchemist, Prince Paul, Marco Polo and countless others who’ve sampled J-Zone break kits. J has also done studio work for Danger Mouse (Karen O, Michael Kiwanuka), Lord Finesse, Binky Griptite (The Dap-Kings), Show (DITC), Pharoahe Monch, Adrian Quesada (The Black Pumas), DJ Nu-Mark and many more, in addition to his own bands (The Du-Rites, Manzel, The Zone Identity) and his tenure as the tour/studio drummer for soul singer Ben Pirani.