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Do you like breakbeat?
Hardcore, jungle, drum & bass, big beat, acid breaks, prog breaks, stuff like that?
What do you like? Who do you like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-D5jGMuBtI
"Breakbeat", characterized, simply put, as a genre of around 140bpm with a kick drum on 1st and 3rd beats, and a snare drum on the 2nd and 4th beats in a 4/4 beat pattern. This is greatly superior compared to the steady beat used in the generic genres of house, techno and trance etc., which while often sharing a snare on the 2nd and 4th beats, also characterized by a kick drum on every beat.
In the 1980s, breakbeat became an essential feature of many genres of breaks music which became popular within the global dance music scene, including big beat, nu skool breaks, acid breaks and Miami bass.
In the early 1990s, acid house artists and producers started using breakbeat samples in their music to create breakbeat hardcore, also known as rave music. The hardcore scene then diverged into subgenres like jungle, drum and bass and breakcore, which generally had a darker sound and focused more on complex sampled drum patterns.
Today, breakbeats live on as a part of many songs from many electronic music genres such as hip hop, jungle, drum and bass, hardcore, UK garage (including 2-step, breakstep and dubstep), and even pop and rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZuq57_bYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjiU2YAlYKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWK_Josc0Og
>Breakbeat hardcore
acid house and techno music of the late 1980s and early 1990s combining four-on-the-floor rhythms with breakbeats, and is associated with the UK rave scene.
>Jungle
developed in England in the early 1990s as part of rave music scenes. The style is characterized by fast tempos (150 to 170 bpm), relatively slow and lyrical reggae-derived basslines, breakbeats, and other heavily syncopated percussive loops, samples and synthesized effects.
>Drum & bass
characterized by fast breakbeats (typically between 150–180 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-bass lines, sampled sources, and synthesizers. subgenres include breakcore, ragga jungle, hardstep, darkstep, techstep, Neurofunk, ambient drum and bass, liquid funk, deep, drumfunk, funkstep, sambass dnbnoise and drill 'n' bass.
>Breakcore
dance music influenced by hardcore, jungle, digital hardcore and industrial music[3][4] that is characterized by its use of heavy kick drums, breaks and a wide palette of sampling sources, played at high tempos.
>Nu skool
subgenre of breakbeat originating during the period between 1998 and 2002. The style is usually characterized by more abstract, more technical sounds, sometimes incorporated from other genres of electronic dance music, including UK garage, electro, and drum and bass. Typically, tracks ranged between 125 to 140 beats per minute (bpm), often featuring a dominant bass line.
>big beat
typically uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns common to acid house. The term has been used since the mid-1990s by the British music press to describe music by artists such as The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, Propellerheads, Cut La Roc, Basement Jaxx and Groove Armada
>Trip hop
the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat emerging from the Bristol Sound scene, which contained influences of soul, funk and jazz.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip hop turntablists, such as DJ Kool Herc, began using several funk breaks in a row, using irregular drum patterns from songs such as James Brown's "Funky Drummer" and The Winstons' "Amen Brother", to form the rhythmic base for hip hop songs. DJ Kool Herc's breakbeat style involved playing the same record on two turntables and playing the break repeatedly, alternating between the two records.
This style was copied and improved upon by early hip hop DJs Afrika Bambaataa and Grand Wizard Theodore.This style was extremely popular in clubs and dancehalls because the extended breakbeat provided breakers with more opportunities to showcase their skills.
>>64090993
Yeah.
Listening to some Dom & Roland right now. He's one of my favorite D&B producers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfZUx3GuX-8
Dance music of the 1990s largely rejected the simple, jovial, hedonistic pproach to body movement that had ruled since James Brown invented funk music in the 1960s. Disco, techno and house had simply imported new technologies (both for rhythm and arrangements) into the paradigm of funk. The 1990s continued that process, but further removing the "joy" of dancing from the beats, and, in fact, replacing it with fits of acute neurosis.
One of the most important ideas to come out of Britain was "jungle" or "drum'n'bass", a syncopated, polyrhythmic and frantic variant of house, a fusion of hip-hop and techno that relied on extremely fast drum machines, epileptic breakbeats and huge bass lines
>>64092165
Nice, Chronology and Through The Looking Glass are sweet
Its BRUK time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOvDgPRDw9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Z3maa-Rh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD-VmnDkMjg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlPIDhKbV4Q
>>64091674
>>Breakcore
Thats IDM you retard.
>>64090993
>Hardcore, jungle, drum & bass, big beat, acid breaks, prog breaks, stuff like that?
yes. yes i fucking really so much do a loooooot!
>>64093799
Looks like a metal cover.
>>64093508
I have no idea what I'm talking about : the post.
Huge dnb/dubstep/UK garage fan here, although I kinda grew out of it.
What are some good recent albums ? (2010-2016) ?
>>64093508
Please let the grown ups talk.
>>64093508
hurr durr i'll just spout bullshit: the post
stfu u fucking idiot, IDM isn't a real genre, every artist that gets that label stuck to them completely ignores it and denies ties to such a stupid and pretentious label
>>64093900
it is
>>64093935
Some of the latest releases on Critical and Metalheadz are pretty gewd.
If you're looking for more of a breakbeat oriented sound tho, check out Voodoom. It's a project of 2 breakcore producers and it's super tight.
>>64094023
I don't really like Metalheadz although they are '''''patrician''''', I find it too rough, not enough feels.
I'll check out the rest thanks.
>>64090993
i don't listen to much breakbeat but i do enjoy Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, and jungle really
would this count as acid breaks btw?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eafNkO6qk_A
>>64094059
Don't really get what you mean by rough. Their latest stuff has been really tame.
I prefer garage desu
>>64094074
And even so, most of their output pre-2000 was very melodic.
>>64094074
>>64094128
Dunno, I just find it lacks of soul, but it's just a personal taste desu.
Maybe I just didn't listen to the right tracks.
>>64093935
For D&B check these out:
Amit - 9 Times
Blu Mar Ten - Famous Lost Words
Calibre - Even If...
Cern - Terminus
Klute - Music For Prophet
Nu:Tone - Future History
The Invaderz - New Found Dialect
All good albums from the current decade.
>>64094199
>no jump-up dnb or noisia
are you havin a chuckle lad?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlRn5bGF_4o
>>64094199
Sounds good, will check them out, thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElnKK9HCfoI
>>64094214
Not a fan of jump-up, especially the kind that is made today.
Noisia have Split The Atom which is a very good album, yes - I just didn't happen to mention it.
>>64094214
Jump up DJs are like the Skrillexes of dnb desu
>>64092868
:turnystop:
>>64090993
LTJ Bukem, Freaky Flow, Aphrodite, Roni Size...
I like Skibbadee too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnghaExe9Q&index=3&list=PLuL1FLf2XRHey77NuJ4NG5lliEvPOiyQN
>>64091674
I can't hear the breakbeats in trip hop?
Does this count? what would it be classified as? as you can see i don't know much about music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNdSS7xQ26M
>>64094807
https://www.discogs.com/g-6/release/6502481
>>64094807
Pretty binary so definitely not breakbeat senpai
>>64094818
So just house then. I was just wondering since the beat didn't sound like conventional house music.
>>64094800
listen to it louder
>>64094800
They're slow, but they are there.
>>64093915
>>64093948
>>64093969
https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/IDM/
>Electronic
>>IDM
>>>Breakcore
>>>Drill and Bass
>>>Flashcore
>>>Glitch Hop
>>64093969
>every artist that gets that label stuck to them completely ignores it and denies ties to such a stupid and pretentious label
Yeah because the term went out of style. Producers in the 90s were tripping over themselves to label their music as IDM.
>>64095493
>James on the label: “I just think it's really funny to have terms like that. It's basically saying 'this is intelligent and everything else is stupid.' It's really nasty to everyone else's music. It makes me laugh.”
shut the fuck up ignorant prick
>>64095470
RYM is not a reference on music genres, it's a good indicator but if you dig deeper into the genres it's not relevant anymore.
I'm saying that because it's obvious you didn't know anything about those genres before you saw them there.
Shitting on people who are really into a subgenre throwing at them your ignorance is really dumb imo.
If you have some constructive arguments about this I'd be glad to go in depth about the subtleties but you just seem to be a shitty angry kids yelling at people for no reason.
>>64095470
>Uses rateyourmusic as a source when talking about electronic music.
>>64095470
>>64095493
IDM is an umbrella genre used to describe genres mostly outside of EDM.
It doesn't mean anything concrete expect for like aphex twin and venetian snare but they both reject it.
>>64095749
IDM is clearly a genre, doesn't matter if people like the term or not. Warp labeled their music as IDM in the 90s, there were famous IDM newsletters and critics used or continue to use the term. The only one who hated the term was Aphex Twin.
The wikipedia article on the genre is very well cited so I suggest you read that before sperging out on us for using the term.
>>64095869
Downtempo, chillout, acid jazz, nu jazz, ambient, psybient... theres lots of non EDM genres that aren't IDM.
>>64095909
I'm wikipedia : the post.
Maybe I remind what that the original post is >>64093508
>>64095932
>Breakcore is IDM
That's the most retarded thing I've ever read.
4hero > Goldie
We all know I like breaks. Listening to new Counterstrike album now (apparently instead of posting the cover 4chan posted the pic to an In Flames album, I haven't listened to In Flames since I was 13 but okay then).
>>64093935
Someone asked me this the other day and I came up with this list. Only LPs, EPs and 12"s would take the piss to do.
Klute - Music For Prophet
Current Value - Back to the Machine
Danny Byrd - Rave Digger
The Brookes Brothers - The Brookes Brothers
Basher - Transmission
Phace & Misanthrop - From Deep Space
Icicle - Under The Ice
Optiv & BTK - Dirty Tricks
Axi - Viking LP
Enei - Machines
Black Sun Empire - From The Shadows
Etherwood - Etherwood
Utah Jazz - Portfolio
Xanadu - Through The Oort Clouds
Fanu - Departure
>>64095987
Correct.
