Synthetic Substitution Break

Style: Funk

Artist: Melvin Bliss

Album:

Released date: 1973

More from: Bernard 'pretty' Purdie

Published by: Seb in the book: The Breaks

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Bernard 'pretty' Purdie

"Synthetic Substitution" is a 1973 song by Melvin Bliss. Originally starting life as a throwaway B-Side, with "Reward" as the A-Side, the song failed to chart anywhere on its initial release because of the collapse of Opal Productions, the parent company of Sunburst Records. However, after the song was sampled by Ultramagnetic MCs, many other artists followed suit and eventually the song became one of the most sampled songs of all time.