10 Great Musicians That Are Slowly Being Forgotten

7. Breakwater

You may not have heard of or be aware of the powerful Philadelphia funk outfit that is Breakwater, but you€™ve almost certainly heard some of their stuff. The reason people might not necessarily know about this band is nothing to do with either themselves or their record label. Instead, it is due to one of their songs being sampled by a modern group and from then on being associated with them rather than Breakwater. Daft Punk€™s €˜Robot Rock€™. We all know it. We€™ve all heard it. That driving rhythm and melody that sounds like an android falling down the stairs was in fact taken from a track called €˜Release The Beast€™ and was sampled, almost in its entirety by the French electro pop megastars back in 2005 as part of their Human After All album. But Breakwater were so much more than just another band from the seventies to be sample bait for modern day musicians. They were a damn fine funk band. Seriously cool even by the illustrious heights set in that decade, Breakwater melted jazz and soul sounds together to form something that never seemed cheesy or clichéd as a lot of funk bands can tend to be. With only two full albums to their name, Breakwater are in the musically equivalent position of having the Extinct in the Wild tag slapped on them by musical rights groups.