The Breaks Thread

140 BPM broken beat goodness. place your thoughts here

unless you're looking for the 140bpm dubstep goodies, then
place your thoughts herehttp://www.adelaidemassive.com/index.php?topic=84.0
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I'm a bit ashamed to say this, but all this electro 80s sounding stuff is starting to get to me...

Justice, Digitalism, Presets, all those kind of groups... even Hexstatic sounded more retro/electro on their last album...

I liked that sound in the 80s, so I like the stuff that sounds like it but is produced in the 00s I guess... :shrug:

No not really, I am yet to hear any dubstep that I have liked. Jayar can you point me towards any good mixes?

dubstepforum.com

theres a good mixes section there, though depends what end of the spectrum you like.
i was saying to funky j the other night that 'dubstep' is exactly what i was hoping breaks would end up as when i started dabbling in breaks in 2002. needless to say when breaks became dominated by the housey/bootleg i lost interest.

im not going to hate on breaks though, ever, but they never got me excited like the heaviness of dubstep.

the breaks that u guys rolled out for hyper were wikkid!!!

i have to admit, the style of breaks that i love the  best are pretty much what mr lachy pender plays. breaky techo electroey stuff. the mainstream breaks are pretty poo these days!

who said anything about bpm? :teef:

breaks doesn't have a set bpm does it ?! it's breaks... unless i'm getting it mixed up with ...what.."classic" breaks  !!

PS... is it Adelaide Breaks Collective and why the change to Beats... that's a whole new arena there...

cha'

The stuff Ed Banger are putting out is fucking epic; Justice, SebastiAn, Kavinsky, Mr Oizo, Busy P, Mehdi, Mr Flash, I'm all over that stuff. Not really breaks, but heavy, heavy vibes none the less. Justice and Busy P will be the ones to watch at Parklife, trust me.

Justice and Busy P smashed it at the BDO! seriously awesome stuff.

We changed it to beats as we did not want to pigeon hole ourselves in to just breaks. So now we have some scope to do things like poxymusic (more electro than breaks) who knows we could even do a bit of dubstep. But the whole change was about staying open minded to new ideas and sounds.

NewsflashABC we will be playing breaks at the Austral every wed night very soon.

nice.... good to see you lot embrace the blurred lines of music... and yeah... Beats is the key... anything goes , within reason, and it will make for a better night out if all the beats are mashed together... i can't begin to imagine how varied everyone's sets wll be now...
top stuff!

i think changing the name to 'beats' has cleared a lot of things up for me!!!! the sets i have been hearing out of late have been so encompassing of a pile of diff genres, well imho anyways. nice name change, will be sure to update where applicable

Well yeah almost anything. I can't see too many hard house sets on the horizion.

Cheers for the heads up G-swift be sure to check who I havent heard from that list.

yeah i was wondering if we could set up a friendly nu-skool breaks vs dubstep thing sometime

Bring it on I say.

fark i love the new electroey breaks stuff! nu-rave, whatever people wanna call it, some hot heavy beats out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

mm just very excited about music at the mo bring on the nu-school breaks vs dubstep for sure

I got this little show on when I arrive in London and Im pretty farking excited about it

i love breaks, but i just can't dig the electro stuff that's in vogue atm. of the locals, i'm most into anzac's style of breaks

Aquasky delivered the goods on Saturday night, that's for sure!

From Finger Lickin' Decade of Breaks party (flyer above) all acts in the main room blew my mind some of the best dark and heavy dance floor killing Breaks I've ever heard. I want to get my hands on some of the tracks that were dropped.
I wish Adelaide could support a party like this, nearly more bass that at a DnB show for real!

Dreadzone fucking killed it much respect for a set like that.
Soul of Man as a DJ was awesome mixing some big mash made me stop and think this is the best mixing of Breaks I've ever seen.
Rennie played a lot harder than in Adelaide and he kept the flow of the night and the floor rolling.
Plumps came out and I nearly blew my load, the start of there set was amazing and they were awesome to watch really getting into the mixing and the night but halfway through they lost the breaks with a little electro sounding stuff but at the end dropped some of there own older stuff which was what we all wanted.
Jay Canning from what I heard was following the nights standard nicely but I was over
The sound was so loud but very clear.

What a wicked night!!!!!!!!!!

Heaven is a sick sick sick club! 

Dear Breaks Headz. Am wondering if I can be pointed in the right direction for some heavy weight, dirty, hard breaks?? Along the lines of Aquasky vs Master Blaster, Against The Grain (i think) etc etc

Yours sincerely

Mr Guythat Doesntknownames

Far Too Loud - are up their on my list at the moment
Noisia - There breaks stuff is pretty fat
The Autobots
Dopamine
Breakfastaz
Control Z
Deep Impact (I haven't heard much fom him in a while though)
Influenza (Psidreams Breaks side project)
Skool of Thought

Check out  CD Friction mixed for Aquaskys label Passanger called 'This way up' on a heavier tip for sure.

More DnB heads have slowed the bpm down and come up with the goods
Shimon
Phetsta

Agree with Refuse's post - grab this

http://www.adelaidemassive.com/index.php?topic=3165.0

Tune in tonight 10pm Fresh FM Beyond The Breaks, Ill sort you out some tearout stylee busniness for the first hour then some wikid techy rollers for the last hour:)

This just in..............


Breaks in not dead shocker!


More to come.

More info please..............????

The Hardcore beats guys are pretty slamming...

Ollywood
Screwface
Ed 209
Stereo-type (Control Z & Screwface)
Equalizers
Angel Farringdon

http://www.hardcorebeats.co.uk

and NAPT can get pretty hard too

Yep all good but for someone whos really kicking it at the moment check out Afghan Headspin they fuckin rock....particulalry

their remix of Hypertension by Cut La Roc
and their release Cocaine! epic.

Afghan Headspin is made up of Wrisk & Mackie from Resonant Evil, made some good dnb... dont think they have done much of that for a while tho...

I witnessed the destruction of room 3 to these lads, fucking amazing set and ripped it right up! ill try and get a mix sorted and play it on my show in the next few weeks, hard epic breaks and so different in its own right.....

Hold tight 2009 is the year of the Afghan!

ok well i've definitely been ignoring breaks for too long...

how have i never heard any of deeklines shit until now?  this concerns me somewhat  this latest hot cakes shit with ed solo is some serious business, some of the shit i've been sussing thats years old is nearly as good also.  awesome remixes.

also been getting pretty keen on some other tearout shit including breakfastaz, far too loud as having some standouts among other anonymous producotrons

gets real juicy when it's as much dubstep as it is breaks, or when they put out a breaks mix on one side and a dnb mix on the other side, but the breaks mix sounds better than the dnb mix when its sped up to the same bpm

will be sure to suss some of these recent recommendations also.  was interesting to see this thread had been revived mid jan after over a year of naythin just as i've been getting into the shit.

this just in, breaks not dead, indeed!

Nice post good to see.
Plenty of big bad breaks business around, some of the production of the previously named artists are a standout for me.
Love the big fat bass breaks on a darker tip.

Hopefully it isn't dead!

A little bit of Afghan Headspin for you, Ill be featuring more from them in the coming weeks on my show 10-12 Sundays on Fresh.

heres their tune Cocaine!
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And here's Colin aka Wrisk doing the trumpet!

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Wikid man good to see someone getting in to the sound, theres loads and loads of decent breaks about, check out www.nuskoolbreaks.co.uk for more including pretty much all the major players and a wikid radio station aswell with almost 24/7 music on offer:)

And theres also my show on FreshFM 92.7 on Sunday nights, Beyond the Breaks, 10-12.

Big ups.

Ill be playing some breaks at the Fresh 11th Birthday, 9-10.30 Upstairs:) Hope to see you there:)

i am gonna miss the fresh show but thanks for the youtube links! any mixes u'd recommend? I miss breaks!

Marty, what the fuck??? lol. Wrisk's trumpet has had too much time delving into the goodies at Breakspoll.

heheh yeah hes a bit of a character, top fello tho really really nice. They were actually shitting playing at spoll and were txting to say they werent coming right up to the last minute, they rocked it! was mental!

Recently re-discovered the Digitally Imported: Breaks stream which I used to listen to all the time.

Awesomeness. No more gay MC's yelling over the top of the mixes and quality tunes 24hrs a day!

Yeah I had a look at this the other day, looks like they have a fairly wide selection of tunes and styles on there... only 2 breaks dj's though from their entire show list, I prefer www.nsbradio.co.uk, weve won best radio station 2wice now at breakspoll and have 24/7 breaks coverage, live chat and and bunch of Dj's from all over the world>

Cheers, grabbed the Krafty Kuts mix from Snowbombing 2009 off there. Good mix. 

Snowbombing would be a wild event

Oh Yeah! wanna go when I've got a bit more of a cash flow? Say 10 years!!!!

Whats happening with Evil Nine? I used to love their stuff but don't hear much from them these days.

Any of you cats listen to Vent or Jay Stewart? Heard some of their stuff and it sounds pretty dope Jay stewart in particular sounds Funky as!

They got a new album out last October... It's called They Live!


Jay Stewart is pretty cool. Beatz & Bobz Vol 5 mix with Atomic Hooligan is decent party breaks.

Evil Nine are wicked

Krooked is one of my fav breaks tunes

I used to see them play every other week in the UK..

Agree whole heartedly!
Krooked is such a good track

Are baobinga and ID still making breaks?

i quite liked some of their stuff; gritty, bassy and heavy... theyve been delving into dubstep recently, on a more breaky tip and again, its decent stuff.


i wouldve been interested to see them out here last year. we got offered them as an act to put on, but it just wasnt going to be feasible to do, let alone any of us having the time/money.

I grabbed that free Zinc EP linked on AM awhile back (admittedly because I though it was DnB)... and the title track (Killa Sound) was awesome. That's the kind of breaks I really dig, nice progression, multiple layers to the sound, slamming drums and funky basslines.

They make everything.

They play breaks.

thought it was puss

 

Different strokes I guess...

Yeah I'm pretty critical of breaks. A mate's been banging out the breaks for a while and while it's not my thing I've heard of few tracks that are just gold! Breakfastaz really rock my world as for that zinc track, just seemed sooo weak and lacking in all things interesting.

I saw Zinc play at Matter in London a cpl months ago and it was the most diverse set Ive heard in ages, dropped old classics like playing with knives and also played his new stuff. Submarines is a wikid track and Killa Sound is just mental but not for everyone I dont guess.

Breakfastaz have been quiet of late but theres a plethora of decent breaks dj's producers and ting coming up through the ranks. Stuff by LuQas, Mesmer, Afghan Headspin, Cut La Roc and even old scholars like the Drumattic twins are re developing the sound!

Then you have artists like Vent, Mars, Beta, Peep Show Owners, C83 all doing amazing things with the genre!

Fuck it I might have to put on a breaks night just to showcase all this great music!

one mix from a DJ who may appeal to teh breaksters...

http://www.adelaidemassive.com/index.php?topic=4011

we just recieved a fat load of secondhand breaks here in the big star records basement if any break lovers are keen to pick up a bargain. Heaps of Against the grain, Fingerlickin, MOB, ... all sorts. all in decent condition it seems as well. crate digging is fun.

also the same guy dropped some at market bazaar across the road from here but you didn't hear that from me (:

hot tip!  nice one

This stuff is pretty cool.

This is similar to what Hudson Mohawk played when he toured last year.

Much rather hear this played out than the usual wobble shit.

well he's touring here late august...

If he's playing somewhere decent in Melbs (ie not a dubstep night ) I might go along...


Speaking of Melbourne gigs...

Friday July 10 @ Brown Alley : Drummatic Twins (UK), Skool Of Thought (UK), & Worthy (USA)

ouch... would really love to see skool of thought... stupid adelaide

Just come here for the show... it's so cheap at the moment

Looks like a top show, tried to catch Skool of Thought in London when I was there but there was just too many other great shows on.

Shuddup J. Bastard eastern states and their forward ways.

Could be keen on this i reckon

Funnily enough, its actually a breaks promoter thats running the tour.
i have a funny feeling its a colab show with the heavy innit boys?

Yo Breaks peeps,

clinic116 are having the MID YEAR CLEAROUT SALE on all Breaks releases.
30% off all titles.
Check the list here:
http://www.adelaidemassive.com/index.php?topic=244.60

Peace.
Bizkut

Ya hearin this Refuse!

I see but I'm broke as a mofo.
Going to be a tight few months coming up.

Cool, come hang out with me. On my income you and I could have a blast!  How do you feel about cask wine?

another dubstep-breaks cross over mix the breaks cats should be able to get into:

http://www.adelaidemassive.com/index.php?topic=4108

get on it!

PS - this dude will be playing in adelaide late august...

ANZAC here....
So, The Austral has gone and let the Bizkut run wild for anyone who needs a fix every Saturday, I'll be holdin it down with old school breakbeat to nu skool breaks with plenty of funk and soul n bootlegs before, after and in between, from 9pm to 12. Perfect for that pre show drinks warm up.
Come in and I'll blow you....................


..............kisses x

peas

Starting tomoz?

Yeah mate.

Sweet might have to call in b4 State of Mind

the closest thing to a breaks act here in a while!

http://www.adelaidemassive.com/index.php?topic=4175

Shameless plug JR!

ALL BREAKS VINYL NOW 50% OFF

@ clinic116. 22 Twin St Adelaide.

Nice, real nice

  Shameless yes, but it got this breaks head looking more closely at Dubstep and now loving it.
Mission accomplished J.

and another shameless plug for the breaks heads

Dirty Harry will be rocking another Reso mix on tonights 'The Breaks' @ 10pm on Fresh FM

not really helping keep breaks alive  

 
i aint one for too much genre-naming, but dubstep is kinda where i hoped breaks was heading once upon a time. nuff bass and heavy beats...

It did.

You just missed it.

Stanton Warriors absolutely smashed it last night.

Haven't been too impressed with them the last few times, but they were at festivals so I put it down to that, and this was a complete return to form.

Last night's gig saw them have 4 CDJs, Ableton and a sampler, and they rocked out

One of the best DJ sets I've heard since getting to Melbourne.

Shits all over any dnb or dubstep show I've been to, that's for certain. Except maybe Andy C.

Reminded me why I love breaks so much.

Stanton warriors are still probably the best show I've been to. Krafty and stantons were incredible!

Awesome!!
Wish I was there

sort of

Took me awhile to find this thread lol.

Nice little nod to Bukem's Atlantis in this tune I heard recently. I like it.


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