After a four-year break from the studio, L.A.-s finest practitioners of party funk & breaks, BREAKESTRA, return to the fray with a brand new studio album on Strut this September, -TIL TO TILL-. The band-s recordings have been rare to savour, numbering an early live cassette-only mixtape, a handful of singles and second mixtape release on Stones Throw and a debut studio album, -Hit The Floor-, on Ubiquity in late 2005. For 2009, Breakestra return with their long-awaited sophomore set exploring all colours of the funk spectrum. Built around the vision of -Music Man- Miles and Mixmaster Wolf (as well as producing, Miles plays drums, bass, guitars, keys and percussion on the record), the trademark Breakestra touches remain intact: Wolf fronts tough breakbeat jams -Dark Clouds Rain Soul- and Stones Throw single -Low Down Stank-; Miles himself brings his soulful vocals to -Need A Little Love- and -I Don-t Wanna Wait- and amazing new female vocalist Afrodyete recalls the heyday of JB-s Funky People on the terrific -Come On Over-. The album even journeys into psychedelic soul (on the fuzzy -Show Me The Way-) and stripped-back New Orleans organ stylings on instrumental cut, -North-East To Nippon-. -Dusk -Till Dawn- is a tribute to Tackett-s late DJ partner at Rootdown, DJ Dusk, whose life was tragically taken in a road accident in 2007. Dusk himself appears alongside Jurassic 5-s Charlie 2na on the funky rap joint -Posed To Be- and the album is a fitting tribute to a much-loved L.A. figure and integral member of a scene which has become globally respected. Breakestra-s -Til to Till- is released late August / early September on Strut. The release will be accompanied by world tour dates beginning in October. TRACKLISTING 1. NEED A LITTLE LOVE 2. DARK CLOUDS RAIN SOUL 3. COME ON OVER feat. Afrodyete 4. BACK AT THE BOATHOUSE 5. GET IT RIGHT 6. SHOW ME THE WAY 7. ME & MICHELLE 8. I DON-T WANNA WAIT 9. NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO 10. -POSED TO BE feat. Chali 2NA & DJ Dusk