What’s particularly interesting about breaks from a production standpoint is the changing ways that artists have used breakbeat samples over the years. It was only later, with the development of more affordable samplers like the E-MU (opens in new tab) SP-12 and Akai (opens in new tab) MPC60, that hip-hop fully adopted the sampled breakbeat as a technique, leading to the golden age of producers such as DJ Premier, Pete Rock and later J Dilla, who treated breakbeats as building blocks in their sample-based productions.īreakbeat's history is defined heavily by the evolution of the tech that enabled artists to create new sounds.įrom the late ’80s on, breakbeats began to infiltrate dance music, first via breakbeat techno, hardcore and jungle, via trip-hop and IDM, then into drum & bass and beyond.īy the late ’90s, breakbeat-derived strains of dancefloor music were so inherent to club culture that the idea of breakbeat or ‘breaks’ as a distinct genre solidified, albeit almost always with a modifier to describe the specific type of breaks: 303-heavy acid breaks, electro-infused Florida breaks, hip-hop-inspired big beat, jungle-offshoot breakcore, next-generation nu-skool breaks…
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