Dusty Fingers

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Dusty Fingers is the name of a series of compilation records of songs that are widely admired as breakbeats. Some of the songs featured contain "open breaks" which are solo drum passages which enable DJs to easily transition into them, as well as attractive to producers who loop or rearrange them to create new compositions. Following in the tradition of the "Ultimate Breaks and Beats" series, the Dusty Fingers records contain an eclectic range of musical styles: mainly funk and jazz, but also including soul, rock, disco, and pop. Most are obscure tracks treasured by music conoisseurs and DJs, including several from European recordings. The common, but hard to define thread in all of these songs is that they are "funky". The Dusty Fingers selection is even more obscure than that of "Ultimate Breaks and Beats" or Strictly Breaks. Many of the songs in the Dusty Fingers series have been sampled into new musical compositions, mainly by hip hop producers. Popular songs sampling "Dusty Fingers" compositions include "Guilty Conscience" by Eminem, "Find Your Wealth" by Nas and "Rowdy, Rowdy" by 50 Cent.

Dusty Fingers - complete track listing

• Dusty Fingers Volume 1
  1. "Intro/Abstractions" - Projection
  2. "Lady Love" - Ferrante & Teicher
  3. "The Windmills of Your Mind" - Dorothy Ashby
  4. "Forty Days" - Billy Brooks
  5. "Get Thy Bearings" - Donovan
  6. "Hogin' Machine" - Les Baxter
  7. "Kismet" - Amon Düül
  8. "The Warnings" - David Axelrod
  9. "On the Hill" - Oliver Sain
  10. "Bamboo Child" - Ryo Kawasaki
  11. "Holding You, Loving You" - Don Blackman
  12. "Hey Jude" - The Overton Berry Trio
  13. "Survival" - Annette Peacock
  14. "Humpty Dumpty" - Placebo
  15. "The Journey [drum skit]" - Small Faces
  16. "Dee Dee Drums/Outro" - Dee Dee Warwick

• Dusty Fingers Volume 2
  1. "Laying the Trap" - Gator Soundtrack
  2. "Go on and Cry" - Les McCann
  3. "Snow Creatures" - Quincy Jones
  4. "Children of the Night" - Hysear Don Walker
  5. "Bettina" - Bola Sete
  6. "Electric Surfboard" - Brother Jack McDuff
  7. "Smokey Joe the Dreamer" - Bullet
  8. "Soul Sides" - Art Farmer
  9. "Ripped Open by Metal Explosions" - Galt MacDermot
  10. "Holy Thursday" - David Axelrod
  11. "Shore Line Drive" - Sammy Nestico
  12. "You're No Good" - Harvey Averne
  13. "Puzzle [skit]" - Passport
  14. "Faded Lady [skit]" - S.S.O
  15. "A Day in the Life" - Les Demerle
  16. "Inner City Blues" - Monty Alexander

• Dusty Fingers Volume 3
  1. "Dermier Domicile Connu" - Generique
  2. "Shady Blues" - Pete Moore
  3. "Come Together" - The Phoenix Authority
  4. "Packed Up" - Bill Conti
  5. "Take Me with You" - Lyn Christopher
  6. "Pulp" - Steve Grey
  7. "Go Home Pigs" - Ronald Stein
  8. "A Divine Image" - David Axelrod
  9. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - Jimmy Ponder
  10. "Return From Ashes" - John Dankworth
  11. "Darkest Light" - Lafayette Afro Rock Band
  12. "Safari" - Frank Walton
  13. "A Day in the Life" - War
  14. "The Spic" - Bullet

• Dusty Fingers Volume 4
  1. "Le Bracelet" - Alain Goraguer
  2. "Psychedelic Portrait" - Jack Arel
  3. "Going Out of my Head" - George Saxon
  4. "I Wonder" - The Bubble Gum Machine
  5. "The Beggar Song [skit]" - Wet Willie
  6. "Night Moves" - F. McDonald
  7. "Sales Talk" - Francis Coppieters
  8. "Accadde A Bali" - Accadde A
  9. "Scratch" - Souflay
  10. "The Moving Finger" - Dorothy Ashby
  11. "Misty Canyon" - Sven Libaek
  12. "Wenn Der Urlaub Kommt" - Manfred Krug
  13. "Selected Sound" - Hardys Jet Band
  14. "Loving You Girl" - John Schroeder

• Dusty Fingers Volume 5
  1. "Solstice" - Brian Bennett
  2. "Algebrique" - Shoche
  3. "Signals" - Gerhard Trede And His Electronic Instruments
  4. "Mixed Drums" - Andy Loore
  5. "Love Sounds" - Intimate Strangers
  6. "Railroad" - Monk Higgins
  7. "Caccia Al Cinese" - Franco Mincalizzi
  8. "Soft Wind" - Gary Pacific Orchestra
  9. "Attention [drum skit]" - Head West
  10. "Jane B" - Jane Birkin
  11. "Bass in Action" - Toni Rubio
  12. "Dirty Drugs" - H. Thieme

• Dusty Fingers Volume 6
  1. "Power of the Drums [intro]"
  2. "Under Pressure" - Nick Ingman
  3. "La Dimo Strzione" - Danielle Patucci
  4. "Silhouttes" - Dick Walter
  5. "Compression" - Ed Scogillera
  6. "Crossing The Border" - Jerry Gold Smith
  7. "Big Noise From Winnetka" - Eric Delaney
  8. "Future Past" - Absolute Elsewhere
  9. "Here We Are" - Churchill
  10. "Tibetian Serenity" - Travis Biggs
  11. "Dancer" - Spacey
  12. "Mao" - Joe Ki Peter Tomas Sound Group
  13. "Outro #1 [drum skit]"
  14. "Outro #2 [drum skit]"

• Dusty Fingers Volume 7
  1. "Who Is She and What Is She to You?" - Madelaine
  2. "Rose Lens" - Lennie Hibbert
  3. "Atlanta Inn" - Janne Schatter
  4. "Space" - Tomorrow
  5. "L'Oiseau" - Alain Goraguer
  6. "Come Live With Me" - Dorothy Ashby
  7. "Walter L" - Jimmy Gordon
  8. "The Mudfoot" - Fat Albert
  9. "Hey Jude" - Tuby Hayes
  10. "Monday, Monday" - Wally Richardson
  11. "Mickey Mouse Club" - Mike Curb Congregation
  12. "The Godfather" - The Professionals
  13. "Grigio Perla" - Gian Franco Pienzio
  14. "We're Only Just Begun" - Grant Green

• Dusty Fingers Volume 8
  1. "Time Is Passing" - Sun
  2. "Kriminal Theme" - Maleditus Sound
  3. "The Climb" - Parry Music
  4. "Les Caids" - Francois de Roubaix
  5. "In Necessity" - Kerrie Biddell
  6. "Cohet" - Ajijia Myrayebe
  7. "Fat Fat Fellow" - Daniel Janin
  8. "Roots" - Ian Carr
  9. "Drums" - Niagra
  10. "Gloaming" - L. Decosne
  11. "The Tense Scene" - Alan Hawshaw
  12. "Atlantis" - R.M.O.
  13. "Trying Hard to Look Inside" - Waters
  14. "Loving You Girl" - John Schroeder
  15. "Fragment of Fear" - Sight & Sound

• Dusty Fingers Volume 9
  1. "Hogans Thing" - Simon Haseley
  2. "Who's Who" - Fred Merrett & Friends
  3. "Daydream" - Bernard Wystraete
  4. "Lightly Salted" - Barry Ungar
  5. "Bad Times" - Gerard McManon
  6. "Jamie's Theme" - Harnell
  7. "Super Snatch" - Flash Fearless
  8. "Pull Jabal Pull" - JJ Johnson
  9. "Interlude" - Brand New Funk
  10. "Being Tailed" - Roy Budd
  11. "Drumin" - Bill Near
  12. "War on the Streets" - Head Band
  13. "La Morte Accarezza a Mezzanotte" - Ed Ariete
  14. "Improv" - Ron Tutt & Jim Keltner

• Dusty Fingers Volume 10
  1. "Intro" - KG
  2. "Son of Popcorn" - Franz Auffray
  3. "The Unknown" - Brian Bennett
  4. "Light My Fire" - Johnny Harris
  5. "Impulsion Drums" - Barry Cooper
  6. "Drum Skit 1"
  7. "Drum Skit 2"
  8. "Botte de Cuire" - Chapeau
  9. "Requiem Pour un Con" - Serge Gainsbourg
  10. "Sand and Rain" - Nancy Holloway
  11. "Letrange Dr. Personne" - Carvelli
  12. "Relaxed Spacious" - A. Parker
  13. "Incidental Black Cloth" - K. Fleins Field
  14. "Drum Skit 3"

• Dusty Fingers Volume 11
  1. "Confunktion" - D. Richmond
  2. "Music People" - Jack Mayborn
  3. "Are You Free" - Larry Robins Sport Studio Band
  4. "Devil's Masquerade" - Syrius
  5. "Les Dunes Dostende" - Francois de Roubaix
  6. "Southbound" - Sound Studio Orchestra
  7. "African Honeymoon" - Golden Music Orchestra
  8. "Type A to E" - Hiro Tsunoda
  9. "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" - The Spotnicks
  10. "Flower Dance" - Michel Gonet
  11. "Brute (Part 1 and 2)" - Louis Clark
  12. "Overtone" - Nick Ingman
  13. "Allora LL Treno" - Bruno Nicolai
  14. "Yama Yama (Yamasuki)" - Daniel Vangarde
  15. "Voyages" - Michel Polnareff

• Dusty Fingers Volume 12
  1. "The Fusion" - Jason Havelock
  2. "Primo Canale" - Caravan
  3. "Drama Blackcloth" - Alan Tew
  4. "Warlock" - R. Tilsley
  5. "Is That the Way" - The Message
  6. "The Prowler" - Brian Bennet
  7. "Gooseberry Fool" - P. Wilsher
  8. "Slow Soul" - The Travellers
  9. "Electric Blue" - Danny Edwardson
  10. "Light 6" - H. Flowers
  11. "Sally" - Frank Pleyer
  12. "Penguin" - Okay Temiz
  13. "New Religion" - Trifle
  14. "Oriental Vibrato [bonus]" - Raymond Guiyot

• Dusty Fingers Volume 13
  1. "Solitude of the Mountains" - Gil Flat
  2. "Thief" - The Enticers
  3. "Like a Friend" - Roger Webb
  4. "Puella! Puella!" - Man
  5. "Flower Pot" - Load Stone
  6. "Flashpoint" - Music DeWolfe
  7. "Number One Spy" - Syd Dale
  8. "Profil Grec 1" - Vladimir Cosma
  9. "Escalation" - Nowy
  10. "Lost Star" - Anthony King
  11. "Act of Threat" - Berry Lipman
  12. "Name of the Game" - Brian Bennett
  13. "Thunderbird" - Johnny Pearson
  14. "Careveli" - April Orchestra
  15. "A Time for Us" - Joe Pass
  16. "Drum Skit"

• Dusty Fingers Volume 14
  1. "Postaeolian Train Robbery" - Cos
  2. "Esconderijo" - Ze Rodrix
  3. "Kamen Rider" - Shunsuke Kikuchi
  4. "New Comer" - W. Rockman
  5. "The Theme From The Persuaders" - John Barry
  6. "Dream" - Shankar Family
  7. "Subtle Secret"
  8. "La Longue Marche" - Janko Nilovic
  9. "City Girl" - Main Attraction
  10. "Affanno" - Franco Micalizzi
  11. "Drums Away" - 2nd Generation
  12. "Maniac" - Steve Gray
  13. "Sentries Charge" - Al Hirt
  14. "Un Soir de Blanco" - Claude Thomain

• Dusty Fingers Volume 15
  1. "Sound Stage 4"
  2. "Tatou Strip Tease" -Michel Audiard
  3. "Friend and Enamys" - John Williams
  4. "Keep It Up" - Olympic Runners
  5. "Kung Fu"
  6. "Vampires"
  7. "Driving" - Driver OST
  8. "Boosey 3052"
  9. "Theme From Exorcist" - Tubular Bells
  10. "Orint Oggie"
  11. "Les Copans de la Basse" - Guy Pedersen
  12. "Don't Be Cool" - Tool
  13. "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More" - Uwe Buschkotter
  14. "Je Veux te Dire une Chanson" - Angelillo & Hamel