{"product_id":"main-source-breaking-atoms-1","title":"Main Source - Breaking Atoms","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew debut albums cast a shadow as long as Main Source's Breaking Atoms, the 1991 record that turned Large Professor into one of hip-hop's most influential producers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMain Source paired the Queens MC and producer with DJ brothers K-Cut and Sir Scratch, and their only album with that lineup arrived on Wild Pitch Records. Built around an E-mu SP-1200, its beats layered jazz and soul samples with a density and imagination that producers spent the rest of the decade chasing. It also gave the world its first taste of a young Nas, whose verse on \"Live at the Barbeque\" was later sampled to open his own debut, Illmatic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe craft is everywhere. \"Looking at the Front Door\" weaves a Donald Byrd sample into a bittersweet relationship song, and \"Just Hangin' Out\" rides a loose, sunny groove. \"Just a Friendly Game of Baseball\" uses the sport as a sharp metaphor for police violence, while \"Peace Is Not the Word to Play\" takes aim at a word worn thin by careless overuse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEleven tracks, no filler, and a sound that still feels astonishingly fresh more than three decades later. This pressing presents the album in its original running order, exactly as golden-age rap fans first heard it, and it remains a cornerstone for lovers of inventive sample-based production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67761131258146,"sku":"5024017001053","price":16.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2080\/8994\/files\/Main_Source-Breaking_Atoms_05b3afdd-d854-4204-a797-02a239dde777.jpg?v=1794305842","url":"https:\/\/soulfulvinyl.com\/products\/main-source-breaking-atoms-1","provider":"Soulful Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}