Breakbeat house is back. The sound, which initially came to prominence in the ’90s, has recently taken the dance music world by storm, and the frenetically ravey sound’s revival isn’t showing any ...
The official cause of death has not been confirmed yet DJ RANDALL, the pioneering drum & bass DJ often called “the godfather of breakbeat”, has died aged 54. The tragic news were confirmed by one of ...
The frenetic breakbeats, bouncing basses, warped vocals and distinctive piano stabs of early rave and breakbeat hardcore records provided the soundtrack for many growing up in the early '90s. The ...
What is a breakbeat? Simply put, it’s a beat that’s found in a song’s drum break, a section in which other instruments fall silent to leave the drums and percussion playing on their own. The term ...
We caught up with electronic breaks pioneers, Dominic Butler and Mark Yardley aka Stanton Warriors to chat about their new album 'Rise' and a busy summer ahead BRISTOL breakbeat, bass duo, Stanton ...
For a few years now, the breaks genre has been left out in the cold. Is it time to reclaim the beats? Say it: Breakbeat. Sounds good, right? Rolls off the tongue like broken kick-drum. Into the heart ...
Few things charge up the dance like a breakbeat. Few things have been quite as ubiquitous in electronic music, too. Over the last few years, you'll have found breaks lurking in the shadows of every ...
DJ Randall, the pioneering jungle and drum & bass DJ, has died at the age of 54. Frequently referred to as “the godfather of breakbeat”, the British DJ helped steer British rave culture from the acid ...
In late August, Charli XCX went on BBC Radio 1’s Future Sounds and introduced one of her favorite songs of the moment: “I run to this song at the gym sometimes … it’s called ‘soft spot,’ and it goes ...
Take an Amen break, add a splash of Jamaican soundsystem culture, bolt on a killer b-line and you've got a sound that'll tear up the dance. Here are seven old-skool classics that still sound great. In ...