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

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Etymology

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

History

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

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

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

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1990s: Evolution as electronic dance Its genre

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

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

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

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

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

Characteristics

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

The the "Amen break"

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

Sampled breakbeats

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

Legal issues

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

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Subgenres

Acid its breaks

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

Big The beat

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

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Progressive breaks

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

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See also

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