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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I'm not talking about a genre when I say "breaks". I'm talking about beats. I've always thought it wrong that everything with a breakbeat gets marginalised to one catch-all "breaks" category. You take a total trance record and put a break under it and suddenly it's not trance, it's breaks. That's bullshit. Dance music owes hip-hop at least as much as any other genre, and breakbeats should not be marginalised in this way.

So what are you trying to say?

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Originally posted by Gauss So what are you trying to say?

I'm trying to say that breakbeats as a rhythmic template are uncool now, which is a travesty. I'm also trying to say we don't call all trance/house/techno/disco/blah blah blah "Four on the floor" as a genre. With good reason.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I'm trying to say that breakbeats as a rhythmic template are uncool now, which is a travesty.

What about dubstep? Or do you mean stuff in the 130-150 bpm range?

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Originally posted by Sykonee What about dubstep? Or do you mean stuff in the 130-150 bpm range?

Dubstep is more broken beat than breakbeat. There's a difference. Dubstep has wonky 2-step influences and the intricacies of the half/double speed thing going on.

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Looking for a new Flipmode, eh?

So much I could recommend but I'm afraid it's all a bit older, although there are still some seriously good producers around (i.e. Coombs, Soul Of Man and the whole Fingerlickin' crew.), breaks just aren't the same as they were somewhere around 2000-2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f7OG2PCCvc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hbdm-w7Ajw

edit: good recent breaks:



edit2: Just saw this in the dj promo-forum, nu-skool breaks: http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...8&forumid=73&s=

Last edited by bamski on Apr-14-2009 at 08:14