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Breakbeat is it a genre? (pg. 3)
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| IpLaYWiTLiGhTs |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
There's the big-beat crew: early Chems, Fatboy, Crystal Method, Lunatic Calm, Propellerheads etc. |
heh...haven't heard talk about that genre in so long.
Anyone know who the "leaders" of that genre are now? |
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| distant |
| quote: | Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs
Anyone know who the "leaders" of that genre are now? |
Big beat is gone with the 90's as far as I know. |
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| DuBam |
| Is broken beat a genre? |
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| GrimReaper |
| quote: | Originally posted by DuBam
Is broken beat a genre? |
Yes and it's quite a bit different than breakbeat. |
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| DuBam |
| quote: | Originally posted by GrimReaper
Yes and it's quite a bit different than breakbeat. |
"No älä" :p
I'm such a nOOb i have to let discogs decide what genre it is.. Break or broken.
Never really knew what the BIG difference was, feel free to enlighten me? |
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| montana |
brokenbeat & breakbeat, well, yeah there is a difference, first of all, brokenbeat is rooted within deephouse & jungle, it's a mishmash of deephouse, acid jazz & nujazz, jungle. the most signifacnt differnce is the drumpatterns. the snares aren't always on the 2&4 and the beat feels cutup, hence the name broken beat. it's tempo is around 120, or lower, like 115, and it's cutup drums & mad patterns is from the junglecommunity, if you listen to like some of the tracks that used the amen, the drumprogramming there was far from the original pattern which was k-k-s-----k-s-. alot of the defining producers used to make d&b until they took the tempo down. also, the always been around (well atleast since the early 90's) but it didn't get a proper name until the nujazz thing really kicked off around 1998.
for further listening i recommend bugz in the attic / seiji, domu |
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| DuBam |
| quote: | Originally posted by montana
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Appreciated. :) |
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| stevo_0 |
| dude, u kno too much |
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| GrimReaper |
Yeh cheers for the explanation for me. :p
I'm at work where i can't write that long. Besides differing drum patterns, broken beat indeed often is around 80-115 bpm while breakbeat tends to be significantly faster. Along what Tony listed, broken beat has also taken alot of influences from the rather (IMO) "messed up" jazz fusion from the late 60s/early-mid 70s which i still don't understand enough to fully enjoy it. :p |
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| distant |
Not to mention that broken beat has an entirely different audience. Would have loved to have gone to Co-Op @ Plastic People, sadly they closed not too long ago.
But yeah, broken beat and something like nu-skool breaks are so vastly different, you can't even compare them. |
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| Pete K |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
Huh, interesting to see this topic come up as it's something I've always wondered as well.
J, out of curiosity - what kinds of tunes would you classify in your definition of the genre "breaks"?
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There are definitely some specific tunes, and a very, very specific style I conjur up when someone says "breaks" - but I'm almost invariably way off the mark from what whomever I'm talking to is discussing.
For me "breaks" is really "prog breaks" - which may be completely wrong, it's just the first idea I go to. |
Check out some of the older Jonathan lisle sets. Great prog breaks.
There was also a mix posted on TA called Celebrating Diversity. I can't remember the fellow’s name that mixed it. By far one of the best prog breaks mixes I've heard. |
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| cmay119 |
Ok, so you guys are saying that just because a track has a breakbeat drum pattern riding underneath, does NOT neccessarily mean that said track is a breakbeat track? Am I understanding this right?
Also, thanks so much for the information thus far. It's really been informative. |
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