Barely Breaking Even
British record label
Barely Breaking Even (BBE) is a British record label started by two DJs, Peter Adarkwah and Ben Jolly. The name BBE comes from The Universal Robot Band's 1982 track "Barely Breaking Even". It has two sublabels: Deep Funk, and Urban Theory. BBE released the Beat Generation series of LPs.
Current/former artists
Discography
Albums
1999: Keb Darge – Funk Spectrum: Real Funk for Real People
2003: Pete Rock – Lost & Found: Hip Hop Underground Soul Classics
2004: The Foreign Exchange – Connected
2004: Pete Rock – Soul Survivor II
2005: Ski Oakenfull – Rising Son
2005: Pete Rock – The Surviving Elements: From Soul Survivor II Sessions
2005: D'Nell – 1st Magic
2005: Symbolyc One & Illmind – The Art of Onemind
2006: Shawn Lee – Soul Visa
2006: Nicolay – Here
2009: Notes to Self – A Shot in the Dark
2010: Ty – Special Kind of Fool
2010: Bara Bröst – Elephancycle
2010: Spoek Mathambo – Mshini Wam
2012: Newban – Newban and Newban 2
2014: Shawn Lee – Golden Age Against the Machine
2015: Dalindèo – Kallio
2016: Dalindèo – Slavic Souls
2017: Mike City – The Feel Good Agenda, Vol.
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