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Subject: Define "breakbeat"
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Message 2/5 19-Jul-00 @ 04:09 PM - RE: Define
well, originally it was spun in by the dj as a 'break'.. at which point the floor fillers use it as a change to go beserk and do some fancy 'break' moves... so really, any loop drum beat but grammatically, one that takes a solo so to speak - actually, the 'Breakbeat' was something that was a very strong feature of 'Northern Soul', long, long, long before hiphop
Message 3/5 20-Jul-00 @ 04:45 AM - RE: Define
breakbeat: asynchronous beat
history:
Breakbeat was an underground music which had originally come in from the USA in the late 1970s. Frankie Bones, at his early DJ-ing stage had created breakbeat irregular music, whereby he had overlapped two same records on turn-table decks at slightly different speeds and slightly delayed. This would create asynchronous beat, which would drive the crowd crazy. His track named "Bones Breaks" was a pioneer if not discoverer of breakbeat which has remained strictly underground since.
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history:
Breakbeat was an underground music which had originally come in from the USA in the late 1970s. Frankie Bones, at his early DJ-ing stage had created breakbeat irregular music, whereby he had overlapped two same records on turn-table decks at slightly different speeds and slightly delayed. This would create asynchronous beat, which would drive the crowd crazy. His track named "Bones Breaks" was a pioneer if not discoverer of breakbeat which has remained strictly underground since.
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Message 4/5 29-Jul-00 @ 11:29 PM - RE: Define
Grand Master Flash, and other electro funkers, would take the break from two of the same records spin it back and catch the breaks and mix them back and forth in the park in NYC and kids would break dance and rappers would rap. Funky breaks go back to 50's and 60's music. It was simply a funky drum solo that built up energy in a song. If you listen to some old rock-n-roll you can here the little breaks here and there that new school artists like DJ Icee looped these types of grooves to create the new break beat in the early 90's. Now artist like fluke and BT make experimental breaks with songs like "absurd" and "hip-Hop phenomina". The Chemical Brothers slowed the breaks down and we ended up with Big Beat. Most music with funky ass acoustic sounding drum grooves is derived from the break beats taken from the old rock and roll era. To create this you can use low sample rates and lots of compression on the samples in your kits.
Message 5/5 11-Aug-00 @ 10:26 PM - RE: Define
phunkytek: very few of the breaks are taken from rock'n'roll records the prime source for breaks is the era from 1968-1978. mainly soul, funk, and jazz records. because of their lo-fi recording (by today's standards) the drums really pop in a raw, live way. plus, they are reletively clean, free from effects like reverb and flange and they're just so much funkier.. although, some breaks (ie: when the levee breaks") are very rock'n'roll..
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