Splashdown (Vinyl LP) Hip Hop

Splashdown (Vinyl LP) Hip HopOriginally released in 1980 on Arista Records, this eight track album exudes the perfect blend of jazz and soul that few groups in the 70s pulled off right. With its upbeat rhythms, tight instrumentation, funk filled cuts and dead on use of Moog, the music of Splashdown reaches out and touches music lovers of all kinds. With tracks sampled by indie Hip Hop great Murs and the ever popular French house band Daft Punk, Breakwater's Splashdown continues

A Detroit soul side arranged by the legendary Dennis Coffey

Remastered from original source tapes

That's the spirit we were trying to express: an angelic prison bust

Rico Rodriguez

The abrasive nature of the earlier release is still evident in many of the tracks

the 1975 EP expands on Stratosphere's slacker-positive dreamscape

Kids See Ghosts

This 1975 slab by drummer Redd Holt was his second outing after the disintegration of the Young-Holt Unlimited rhythm team

which also includes "Who's Zoomin Who

recorded and mixed by Green over the past two years

which all fit together in a timeless twilight of love and harmony - as if lovers silhouetted by a Kingston sunset

Breakwater's Splashdown continues to maintain a vibrant presence amongst today's popular music scene