I like breaks... gimme da funk!!

The intro percussion really flickers well with this bass instrument that is slightly pitch bent in certain parts and is just plain unique. Then this melody line begins which feels enigmatic or psychedelic. The stereo acid is a nice touch, but perhaps a little too much panning for my tastes (then again headphones are probably not the right idea).

The middle part has this bassline changeup amidst these really cool pads. This track feels so alien that it's almost strange beauty. It's got some serious pwnage as well. Give us more!

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Originally posted by phyrrus a fun breakbeat track that took me about a month to get right. made with reason rewired through ableton. strap yourself in and have a listen, man. feedback makes me horny. Phyrrus - We're All Mad Here

I'm not a great fan of atonal melodies, so the scale you dance with might be a little bit too exotic for my taste, but I guess this piece is mostly about the beat, which is fairly excellent. One question tho, is this really a breakbeat? The snare is on-beat all the time, very few (on-beat) syncopations and no polyrhythms as from what I could gather.
Anyway, I suspect you kept the melodies simple in order to stick to the mood you generate by doing so, but a counterpoint melody wouldn't have hurt in my opinion.

All-in-all, I digged the track, it was cozy. Keep it up! I would probably have called it Army of Compressors, that was the first that sprung to mind when I heard it

Maybe you can't beat a beatsmith as Mr. Tobin says, but you can always beat it tho, and that is what I shall do now.

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I didn't really have a scale in mind when I made this track, the spacey sounding rhodes keyboard is really just in there as a kind of motif. I suppose this is not breakbeat in the conventional sense of having beats that divide the standard 4/4 signature, but there are polyrhythms in there -- or, at least, a shitload of layers of percussion. this song was really an experiment in creating layer upon layer of driving percussions. I was careful not to make any kind of complex rhythm because there would just be too much going on. thanks for the comments, much appreciated.