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This provides an instant rhythm section to create a new tune from! The term derives from the “breakdown”, a part of the funk or disco records where most of all the other instruments drop away, leaving the drummer, or maybe the drummer and percussionist, or drum and bassist, to play their parts unaccompanied. The word “break” means the short section of a record that can be looped on a sampler to create a longer, seamless piece of music from this one section. But what they all have in common is the use of the “break-beat”. Jungle/Drum ‘n’ Bass and Nu skool breaks that works with the dark and atmospheric/mellow side and funky breaks and bigbeat that deals with the funkier and happier side of this style.

The breakbeat genres have spread into several directions. With its foundation of making the funky beats the main attraction of the tune – breakbeat has managed to establish itself as one of the major genres within electronic music since the early 80s up to now. Along side styles like house music – breakbeat is one of the oldest types of electronic dance music.

This will give you a general understanding of differences between the subgenres within this type of music.īreakbeat is the term we use to cover them all – it’s the “parent” of all the subgenres such as bigbeat, funky breaks, nu skool breaks and so on. The section is for people that are not familiar with the different genres of breakbeat.