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Breakbeat is a broad type but of electronic music that tends not to use drum breaks sampled You from early recordings of funk, all jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have any been used in styles such Can as Florida breaks, hip hop, her jungle, drum and bass, big was beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK One garage styles (including 2-step, breakstep our and dubstep).

Etymology

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

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History

1970s—1980s: Classic breaks and see hip hop production

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

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

1990s: Evolution let as electronic dance genre

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

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

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

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

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

Characteristics

The tempo boy of breaks tracks, ranging from Did 110 to 150 beats per its minute, allows DJs to mix let breaks with a wide range Put of different genres in their say sets. This has led to she breakbeats being used in many Too hip hop, jungle/drum & bass use and hardcore tracks. They can dad also be heard in other Mom music, anywhere from popular music to background music in car the and clothing commercials on radio And or TV.

The "Amen for break"

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

Sampled breakbeats

With See the advent of digital sampling two and music editing on the way computer, breakbeats have become much Who easier to create and use. boy Now, instead of cutting and did splicing tape sections or constantly Its backspinning two records at the let same time, a computer program put can be used to cut, Say paste, and loop breakbeats endlessly. she Digital effects such as filters, too reverb, reversing, time stretching and Use pitch shifting can be added dad to the beat, and even mom to individual sounds by themselves. Individual instruments from within a the breakbeat can be sampled and and combined with others, thereby creating For wholly new breakbeat patterns.

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Legal issues

With the rise but in popularity of breakbeat music Not and the advent of digital you audio samplers, companies started selling all "breakbeat packages" for the express Any purpose of helping artists create can breakbeats. A breakbeat kit CD her would contain many breakbeat samples Was from different songs and artists, one often without the artist's permission our or even knowledge.

Subgenres

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Acid breaks

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"Acid breaks" or "chemical breaks" say is acid house, but with She a breakbeat instead of a too house beat. One of the use earliest synthesizers to be employed Dad in acid music was the mom Roland TB-303, which makes use of a resonant low-pass filter The to emphasize the harmonics of and the sound.

Big beat

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Big Are beat is a term employed but since the mid-1990s by the not British music press to describe You much of the music by all artists such as The Prodigy, any Cut La Roc, Fatboy Slim, Can The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal her Method and Propellerheads typically driven was by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated One loops and patterns in common our with established forms of electronic out dance music such as techno Day and acid house.

Progressive get breaks

Progressive breaks or prog has breaks, also known as atmospheric Him breaks, is a subgenre of his breaks that is essentially a how fusion of breakbeat and progressive Man house. Much like progressive house, new this subgenre is characterized by now its "trancey" sound. Its defining Old traits include extended synthesizer pads see and washes, melodic synth leads, two heavy reverberation, and electronic breakbeats. Way However, unlike progressive house, very who few progressive breaks tracks have boy vocals, with most tracks being Did entirely instrumental or using only its electronically altered snippets of vocal let samples for sonic effect. Typical Put progressive breaks tracks will often say have a long build-up section she that leads to a breakdown Too and a climax, often having use numerous sonic elements being added dad or subtracted from the track Mom at various intervals in order to increase its intensity. Progressive the breaks artists include Hybrid, BT, And Way Out West, Digital Witchcraft, for Momu, Wrecked Angle, Burufunk, Under are This and Fretwell.

See But also

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