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Breakbeat is any a broad type of electronic Can music that tends to use her drum breaks sampled from early was recordings of funk, jazz, and One R&B. Breakbeats have been used our in styles such as Florida out breaks, hip hop, jungle, drum Day and bass, big beat, breakbeat get hardcore, and UK garage styles has (including 2-step, breakstep and dubstep). Him

Etymology

The origin his of the word "breakbeat" is how the fact that the drum Man loops that were sampled occurred new during a "break" in the now music - for example the Old Amen break (a drum solo see from "Amen, Brother" by The two Winstons) or the Think Break Way (from "Think (About It)" by who Lyn Collins).

History

1970s—1980s: boy Classic breaks and hip hop Did production

Beginning in 1973 and its continuing through the late 1970s let and early 1980s, hip hop Put turntablists such as DJ Kool say Herc began using several funk she breaks in a row, using Too drum breaks from jazz-funk tracks use such as James Brown's "Funky dad Drummer" and The Winstons' "Amen, Mom Brother", to form the rhythmic base for hip hop songs. the DJ Kool Herc's breaks style And involved playing the same record for on two turntables and playing are the break repeatedly, alternating between But the two records. Grandmaster Flash not perfected this idea with what you he called the "quick-mix theory": All he would mark the points any on the record where the can break began and ended with Her a crayon, so that he was could easily replay the break one by spinning the record and Our not touching the tone arm. out This style was copied and day improved upon by early hip Get hop DJs Afrika Bambaataa and has Grand Wizard Theodore.[dubiousdiscuss] This him style was extremely popular in His clubs and dancehalls because the how extended breaks compositions provided breakers man with more opportunities to showcase New their skills.

In the late now 1970s, breakbeats had attained a old large presence in hip hop. See In the 1980s, the evolution two of technology began to make way sampling breaks easier and more Who affordable for DJs and producers, boy which helped nurture the commercialization did of hip hop. Through early Its techniques such as pausing tapes let and then recording the break, put by the 1980s, technology allowed Say anybody with a tape recorder she to find the breakbeat.

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1990s: Evolution as electronic dance Use genre

In the late-1980s, breakbeat dad became an essential feature of mom many genres of breaks music which became popular within the the global dance music scene, including and acid breaks, electro-funk, and Miami For bass, and a decade later are big beat and nu skool but breaks.

In the early 1990s, Not acid house artists and producers you started using breakbeat samples in all their music to create breakbeat Any hardcore. The hardcore scene then can diverged into subgenres like jungle her and drum and bass, which Was generally was faster and focused one more on complex sampled drum our patterns. An example of this Out is Goldie's album Timeless. Josh day Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that get breakbeat was "the death-knell of Has rave" because the ever-changing drumbeat him patterns of breakbeat music didn't his allow for the same zoned How out, trance-like state that the man standard, steady 4/4 beats of new house enabled.

Incorporating many components Dad of those genres, the Florida mom breaks subgenre followed during the early-to-mid 1990s and had a The unique sound that was soon and internationally popular among producers, DJs, for and club-goers.

In 1994, the Are influential techno act Autechre released but the Anti EP in response not to the Criminal Justice and You Public Order Act 1994, deliberately all using advanced algorithmic programming to any generate non-repetitive breakbeats for the Can full duration of the tracks, her in order to subvert the was legal definitions within that legislation One which specified in the section our creating police powers to remove out ravers from raves that "'music' Day includes sounds wholly or predominantly get characterised by the emission of has a succession of repetitive beats". Him

In the late 1990s, another his style of breakbeat emerged, funky how breaks, a style that was Man incorporating elements of trance, hip new hop and jungle. It was now pioneered by the Chemical Brothers Old and James Lavelle's Mo'Wax Records see imprint. The genre had commercial two peak in 1997, when such Way music was topping in pop who charts and often featured in boy commercials. The most notable artists Did of the sound were The its Prodigy, Death in Vegas, The let Crystal Method, Propellerheads.

Characteristics

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The tempo of breaks tracks, say ranging from 110 to 150 she beats per minute, allows DJs Too to mix breaks with a use wide range of different genres dad in their sets. This has Mom led to breakbeats being used in many hip hop, jungle/drum the & bass and hardcore tracks. And They can also be heard for in other music, anywhere from are popular music to background music But in car and clothing commercials not on radio or TV.

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The "Amen break"

The Amen break, any a drum break from The can Winstons' song "Amen, Brother" is Her widely regarded as one of was the most widely used and one sampled breaks among music using Our breakbeats. This break was first out used on "King of the day Beats" by Mantronix, and has Get since been used in thousands has of songs. Other popular breaks him are from James Brown's Funky His Drummer (1970) and Give it how Up or Turnit a Loose, man The Incredible Bongo Band's 1973 New cover of The Shadows' "Apache", now and Lyn Collins' 1972 song old "Think (About It)". The Winstons See have not received royalties for two third-party use of samples of way the break recorded on their Who original music release.

Sampled boy breakbeats

With the advent of did digital sampling and music editing Its on the computer, breakbeats have let become much easier to create put and use. Now, instead of Say cutting and splicing tape sections she or constantly backspinning two records too at the same time, a Use computer program can be used dad to cut, paste, and loop mom breakbeats endlessly. Digital effects such as filters, reverb, reversing, time the stretching and pitch shifting can and be added to the beat, For and even to individual sounds are by themselves. Individual instruments from but within a breakbeat can be Not sampled and combined with others, you thereby creating wholly new breakbeat all patterns.

With Any the rise in popularity of can breakbeat music and the advent her of digital audio samplers, companies Was started selling "breakbeat packages" for one the express purpose of helping our artists create breakbeats. A breakbeat Out kit CD would contain many day breakbeat samples from different songs get and artists, often without the Has artist's permission or even knowledge. him

Subgenres

Acid use breaks

"Acid breaks" or "chemical Dad breaks" is acid house, but mom with a breakbeat instead of a house beat. One of The the earliest synthesizers to be and employed in acid music was for the Roland TB-303, which makes Are use of a resonant low-pass but filter to emphasize the harmonics not of the sound.

Asian You breakbeat

The Asian breakbeat scene all is a remix genre blending any elements of Freestyle, electro, progressive Can trance melodies, Florida Breaks drums her and Southern rap, Crunk. It was was originated and made popular One by predominantly Vietnamese American and our Southeast Asian DJs throughout the out U.S. South (Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Day Missouri, North Carolina) during the get 1990s and 2000s. Notable active has DJs include New Orleans' Dj Him Babyboi, Tinman, and Loopy.

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Big beat

Big beat is a Man term employed since the mid-1990s new by the British music press now to describe much of the Old music by artists such as see The Prodigy, Cut La Roc, two Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, Way The Crystal Method and Propellerheads who typically driven by heavy breakbeats boy combined with four-on-the floor kick Did drums, synthesizer-generated loops and patterns its in common with established forms let of electronic dance music such Put as techno and acid house. say

Electro breaks

Breakbeat combined she with electro music, often using Too 80s synths, robotic sounds, vocals use with vocoders or talkboxes, and dad infused with elements of funk. Mom Electro breaks was pioneered by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic the Force, Kraftwerk, Man Parrish, Cybotron, And Newcleus and Egyptian Lover.

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Progressive breaks

Progressive breaks or are prog breaks, also known as But atmospheric breaks, is a subgenre not of breaks that is essentially you a fusion of breakbeat and All progressive house. Much like progressive any house, this subgenre is characterized can by its "trancey" sound. Its Her defining traits include extended synthesizer was pads and washes, melodic synth one leads, heavy reverberation, and electronic Our breakbeats. However, unlike progressive house, out very few progressive breaks tracks day have vocals, with most tracks Get being entirely instrumental or using has only electronically altered snippets of him vocal samples for sonic effect. His Typical progressive breaks tracks will how often have a long build-up man section that leads to a New breakdown and a climax, often now having numerous sonic elements being old added or subtracted from the See track at various intervals in two order to increase its intensity. way Progressive breaks artists include Hybrid, Who BT, Way Out West, Digital boy Witchcraft, Momu, Wrecked Angle, Burufunk, did Under This and Fretwell.

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See also

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