DUSTY FINGERS: THE MIX CD

Danny Dan The Beatman presents DUSTY FINGERS: THE MIX CD (Rare Original Break Beats)

Danny Dan the Beat Mann Returns with his First CD Release: DUSTY FINGERS - THE MIX CD

Born in the South Bronx, mixing and spinning records since he was 13, Danny Dan is known for creating beats for artists including Biz Markie's "You Got What I Need", Do Wop and The Bounce Squad's "Hit em in the Head" and many more. Danny Dan The Beatmann compiled a treasure of the rarest break beats in the Dusty Fingers collection series and now presents collectors and music enthusiasts with his first CD release, DUSTY FINGERS - THE MIX CD.

The Beatmann returned to his dusty archival collection only to discover over 50 more rare tracks including more rare international break beats from the European states.

The Dusty Fingers Series, Volumes 1-15 were released only on vinyl and contain original obscure tracks treasured by music connoisseurs and DJs. The common, but hard to define thread in all of these songs is that they are funky. The Dusty Fingers series is even more obscure than the popular series "Strictly Breaks" from the 80's.

Many of the songs in the Dusty Fingers series have been sampled into new musical compositions by Hip Hop producers, including "Guilty Conscience" by Eminem, "Find Your Wealth" by Nas and "Rowdy, Rowdy" by 50 Cent. We are certain many music producers will be using this new compilation series for their next music project.

DUSTY FINGERS - THE MIX CD contains over 50 rare break beats that are almost impossible to find. The tracks are divided for easy and random access to each song (not recorded on a single track). DUSTY FINGERS - THE MIX CD is professionally manufactured, sealed and mastered by Digitech studios (not recorded on a CDR).

Preview & Purchase DUSTY FINGERS - THE MIX CD at  rocknsoulrecords.org

Pick up many volumes from the Dusty Fingers Series at  fatbeats.com orundergroundhiphop.com.

Dusty Fingers is also available at  turntablelab.com.

"It can be argued that Dusty Fingers was the first domestic comp to continually go beyond the well-traveled world of Ultimate Breaks and Beats. The series, which is still shrouded in mystery (is it Diamond? no, but it does originate in the East Village), made a quantum leap in the digging world, introducing many to euro-breaks, badder than the original cover versions, and things called library records. For the first time, Danny Dann the Beat Mann, has been commissioned to create a mix from the series. With such incredible source material, it'd be hard to f*ck this up, but Dann does an excellent job playing guide through the now massive catalog. There's 57 tracks in total, with just enough editing (tracks average about 1:30 in length) and nicely timed doubles. Well over an hour of music." - Turntable Lab

DailyDiggers.com Interview

Danny Dan the Beatman

The heavy beat-diggers out there amongst you will know the name DANNY DAN THE BEATMAN. Either from his brief appearance in the short movie THE FUNK HUNT (where he takes a headbutt for his records!), or simply for being a legendary bronx veteran with an incredible arsenal of dope ass breakbeats - there's no denying this cat's qualifications.

DANNY DAN grew up in the early days of Hip Hop and had already begun to DJ Funk, Soul and R&B from the age of 13, but was later influenced by the legendary KOOL DJ HERC to become a drum break junkie. He was fascinated by watching him spin two copies of the same record mixed seamlessly back-to-back.

He hailed from the Bronx 183rd street, and in this area DAN and his crew would rule the streets from 1975 to 1984 involved in organising and spinning at street jams,

block parties, school yards etc.. This is where he earned his reputation as a master of drum breaks. DANNY tells us...

"THE TWO TUFF BROS, TBB CREW...we had some good times, we had it all - real B-Boys & B-Girls just havin' fun..... JOJO, MONGO, SPY, TRAC 2, WHITE BOY TRACE, BOM 5, RIP 7, BATCH, ABY, WEBBLES, JIMMY DEE, JIMMY LEE, MR FREEZE, FROSTY FREEZE, LEFTY, MIKE MIKE, BIG LEE, LEON, 2TUFF FRED, EDDIE ED, KIN 1, SHICK SALSA, SLICK2, WASP 1, OZ 109, TRACY 168, KING 2, CHI CHI 133, P.NUT 2, CLIFF 159 and many other they all came to rock the house including DJ DESTINY, DJ BUCK O, DJ ECSTASY, DJ JONNY JOHN, DJ MIKE MIKE, DJ PILL 170, and the one and only MIX MASTER SUPREME, not forgetting FUNK MASTER J..."

But DANNY DAN is also known for creating dope beats for artists including Biz Markie's "You Got What I Need", Doo Wop and The Bounce Squad's "Hit em in the Head" and many more. He was also the man responsible for the hugely popular DUSTY FINGERS break comp series and has now compiled a treasure of the rarest break beats in the Dusty Fingers collection and now presents his first CD release, DUSTY FINGERS - THE MIX CD. THE BEATMAN has returned to his dusty archival collection only to discover over 50 more rare tracks including more rare international break beats from far afield including Europe. DUSTY FINGERS - THE MIX CD contains over 50 rare break beats that are almost impossible to find. You can preview & purchase DUSTY FINGERS - THE MIX CD 

In his online STORE

It can be argued that DUSTY FINGERS was the first breakbeat comp to continually go beyond the well-travelled world of LENNY ROBERTS's much revered Ultimate Breaks and Beats series. I'm sure many of you will remember how DUSTY FINGERS was very much shrouded in mystery (is it Diamond D?). DAN made a quantum leap in the digging world, introducing many to euro-breaks, badder than the original cover versions, and also that elusive genre known as library records.

"For the first time DANNY DAN THE BEATMAN has been commissioned to create a mix from the series. With such incredible source material, it'd be hard to fuck this up, but Dann does an excellent job playing guide through the now massive catalogue. There's 57 tracks in total, with just enough editing (tracks average about 1:30 in length) and nicely timed doubles. Well over an hour of music." - Turntable Lab

Here's a little snippet from DUSTY FINGERS THE MIX CD....
DUSTY FINGERS MIX - Danny Dan the Beatman

and also one of DANNY DAN's productions from 1994 on NOO TRYBE Records...
DOO WOP & THE BOUNCE SQUAD - Hit 'Em In The Head