Various – Ultimate Breaks & Beats

Think!

They greatest break of all time imho.

Usually UB&B are a bit dead, lots of trash breaks, all filler, hardly any thriller - 1 to zero decent breaks per volume on average usually.

This version of Think is very usable and the original 12" and 7" are becoming expensive.

(Watch out for the dodgy German presses of Ultimate Breaks & Beats on Ebay, some have completely different tracks and the presses are awful, many look identical but are pressed on awful vinyl)

Disclaimer- UB&B is massively overrated as a compilation series but very culturally significant. Thus forth it has recently began to verge slightly on the overpriced side.

Think alone is worth it regarding this particular volume though.

I own multiple UB&B records but I "think" this is they only one I'd genuinely recommend.

I'm not sure if volume 1 is worth it for Amen since it gets repressed so often and the speed of the original 7" is generally preferred for Amen over the UB&B version.

Volume 3 is probably not worth it for Apache and Bongo since the unofficial 86 press is the best version (whoever pressed it did a better job than Lou and official UB&B, appache is nkt a super quiet record anyay) but it's mono and sounds different to the original record (everything UB&B does), and there's a new press of Bongo Rock 12" LP which is pretty decent, it's basically a cleaner Appache, it sounds different but acceptable, the price is acceptable too and the silver sleeve looks fresh so I can't really recommend the UB&B there.

For most other UB&B breaks, unless you just want to collect the entire series, the original 7" or 12" records or another compilation with more premium breaks on less records and less trash filler breaks are the ways forward.

Got to respect Ultimate from a historic and cultural perspective though!

You get Assembly Line on this volume too, which is a decent break, again most UB&B breaks are trash, ajd they spread the good breaks out so getting two premium breaks from a UB&B is an absolute win. There's a few others with two decent breaks but entire volumes with zero devent breaks, and a lot with 1 goid to medicore break, that's UB&B for you, it's such an iconic series though!

If you grab one UB&B, I'd say go for this as the Amen one and the Appache one (because of the album art also on that one) will become overpriced soon and you can grab easy alternatives, a decent copy of Think and Assembly Line (even if you grab the Dynamite Cut Assembly which is awesome) will probably run you more than this and both on this volume are good enough to use in regards to sampling.

That being said, I'd take an original of Think and the Dynamite Cuts Assembly over this any day. But both are fine and will do the job.

does the album come with 1 or 2 vinyls there was specail edition for djs

I have an NM / NM OG copy for sale. Hit me up if interested.

This edition of UBB is presumably the reason that 'It Takes Two' exists.

A-3: 12-inch "Long" version