say it with me brotha, 1 2 33 4 .. k thx die, nah j/k but that is the standard breakbeat pattern, 1 and 3's being bass/kick and 4's being hi's. standard dance music is 4/4 or "1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4".. makes sense real fast

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do you have any songs that could be an example?

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soulful/latin/deep house + jazz

Here's a couple well known breaks tunes:
Sasha - Rabbitweed
Mike Koglin - Enjoy the Silence (Tekara mix)

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i thought enjoy the silence was just trance
so breaks is actually a genre, what defines it musically
melodic? or is it just like trance except with out the constant bassline

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soulful/latin/deep house + jazz

There's breaks trance, trance and breakbeat.

Breakbeat -> It's a totally different genre with several sub-genres. Its most important characteristic is the beat: in the beginning, producers used to play breaks from soul music (the "amen") and later some people decided to produce a similar beat using ordinary drum machines. Amongst the sub-genres you can have:

Big beat -> You know chemical brothers and fatboy slim, don't you? They play big beat.

Chemical Breaks -> You also know crystal method, don't you? They play chemical breaks.

and many many more...

Breaks trance -> Just a hybrid between trance and breakbeat. Instead of the 4/4 beat (which is sometimes used), the tunes have a break beat, just like the tunes from Big beat and Chemical Breaks (as I've already mentioned).

Trance -> I guess you know what it is

I would write more, but I'm in a hurry

Edit: Enjoy the silence is trance, but the Tekara mix has lots of breaks in it -> therefore you've got some breaks trance

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If you want another breaks example, anything by DJ Icey is solid.

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Listen to Petter - These Days, true Prog Break.

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One of the few ones left

Anything that doesn't have a standard 4/4 beat, and goes between 120-150 BPM's. If you get much quicker than that, you're heading into Jungle territory, and if you go much slower, it's hip-hop.

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breaks also has sudden pauses in it? the last nightclub i was in playing 'breaks' the music would just stop every now and then -- and no it wasnt the power going off it seemed like the crowd expected it

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Originally posted by xarg breaks also has sudden pauses in it? the last nightclub i was in playing 'breaks' the music would just stop every now and then -- and no it wasnt the power going off it seemed like the crowd expected it

hehe, every kind of music can have sudden "pauses" In fact, one of my favourite techno DJ's (Ken Ishii) often does it in some of his sets

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this was different to the usual though :P
like most tracks had it, it was expected ..
came out of nowhere and the silence disappeared just as quickly too

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