"Break 4 Love" | ||||
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Single by Raze | ||||
Released | 1988 | |||
Format | 12-inch single | |||
Recorded | 1987 | |||
Genre | House | |||
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Writer(s) | Vaughan Mason | |||
Producer(s) | Vaughan Mason | |||
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"All 4 Love (Break 4 Love 1990)" | ||||
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Single by Raze | ||||
Released | January 27, 1990 | |||
Format | 12-inch single | |||
Recorded | 1989 | |||
Genre | Electronic dance, House | |||
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Writer(s) | Erique Dial, Robert Gordon, J Grant,Vaughan Mason | |||
Producer(s) | Erique Dial,Vaughan Mason | |||
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Single by Peter Rauhofer + Pet Shop Boys = The Collaboration | |||||||||||
A-side | "Home and Dry" | ||||||||||
B-side | Remixes | ||||||||||
Released | November 20, 2001 (US) | ||||||||||
Format | 12" | ||||||||||
Recorded | 2001 | ||||||||||
Genre | Dance | ||||||||||
Label | Star 69 | ||||||||||
Writer(s) | Vaughan Mason | ||||||||||
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"Break 4 Love" is a song written, produced and recorded by Vaughan Mason, the principal member of house music group Raze, the song's original credited performer. The song, the group's only significant US hit, featured vocals by Keith Thompson, Bobby Coleman, and sexual sound samples by Erique Dial. The single peaked at number 28 in the UK Singles Chart and it topped the US Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1988. It is still considered a classic of the early house music genre.
The song has been remixed, re-recorded and reissued on several different independent dance music labels, the most significant of which, "All 4 Love (Break 4 Love 1990)" which featured Lady J and The Secretary of Entertainment produced & co written by Erique Dial climbed to number 30 in the UK in early 1990.
"Break 4 Love" interpolated the 1987 song "Today, Tomorrow and Forever" by The Castle Beat.
The sample interpolated of what sounds like a woman having an orgasm is in fact that of actress Lorna Patterson from the 1980 movie Airplane!, when her character Randy is crying to Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen) that she's 26 and never been married.
The song can be heard in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, on the in-game radio station SF-UR, which also features other house music songs by different artists.
There have been several songs and remixes which have sampled the drum loop of "Break 4 Love":
All of these versions run approximately 5:25 and feature sexual vocalization samples by Erique Dial. A 3:18 edit of the English Mix was used as the 7" single version.
"Break 4 Love" was covered by Peter Rauhofer and Pet Shop Boys, released under the name "Peter Rauhofer + Pet Shop Boys = The Collaboration". The single was not released in the United Kingdom and did not chart there. The song can be found on the US bonus disc of the Pet Shop Boys album Release and as a B-side to CD2 of their single, "Home and Dry".