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Breakbeats
The more I listen, the more I like. Not since I first got a FisherPrice record player with about half a dozen nursery rhyme disks have I been so excited about music. The Sasha Trance era comes close, but of course the hypnotic plinkety-plonk of "Teddy Bear's picnic" wins hands down. As I'm typing this, the memories have given me goose bumps. My very first "gig" in the corner of the nursery playground, just underneath the climbing frame. People with dummys in their mouths, gurgling with pleasure. I wee'd myself. It was great.
Anyway, breakbreats. Transcending genres, it's a sound that should appeal to all music lovers. There's the slack jazzy stuff, the techy minimal production and tough pacey hard edge with big stabby noises, akin to hoovers. Vocals, house riffs, trancey melodies and frequencies and intricate D&B rolling rhythms, it's all there. The defining ingredient is the lack of a 4/4 beat, instead a hip jerking leg shaking fancy footwork funky festival of rhythms.
I challenge anyone that says they don't like it to listen again. http://www.BreaksFM.com is a place to go, but there's all sorts of stuff around to listen to, it all depends how you like your breaks served. Chew the Fat is the obvious choice for a club, it's london's longest running breaks night. http://www.club4it.com/clublife/FatListings.htm
Sleepless has been a strictly trance night for most of the last 5 years, but we are embracing breaks for our 5th Birthday party. the 10 quid concessions list is now open, email me your names to go on the list. 
Who's up for it then? I know I posted a couple of times but it's now you need to get your names on the list.
Woo!
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