Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Musik: A Preskool Breakmix

by DJ QBert

As far as I'm concerned, this tape started the whole "let's sample some super hero book-on-tape-type records" thing before MF DOOM could. Not that that's the end-all, be-all marker of a great record or anything, but I think if you like any of that other stuff (and you love breaks), this thing might still blow you away.

QBert (and guests) put together an amazing mix here. This sent me down the path of listening to the Skratch Piklz, but none of the stuff they released as a group ever did it for me the way this one still does. Even just the Tom Sawyer routine that opens the mix--an idea that a lot of lesser DJs would "borrow" in the years that followed--gets me amped and makes me want to break a window or steal a cop car or something.