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what defines breaks as a genre?
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| SuperFarStucker |
| 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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| mndeg |
| do you have any songs that could be an example? |
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| jonnycarcinogen |
Here's a couple well known breaks tunes:
Sasha - Rabbitweed
Mike Koglin - Enjoy the Silence (Tekara mix) |
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| mndeg |
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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| Maaz |
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 :D
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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| jonnycarcinogen |
| If you want another breaks example, anything by DJ Icey is solid. |
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| Dj_ExOn |
| Listen to Petter - These Days, true Prog Break. :) |
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| Christopher B |
| 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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| 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 |
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| Maaz |
| quote: | 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 :p |
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| xarg |
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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