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# HISTORY OF BREAKBEAT
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- Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term
used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic
music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened
4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance).
These rhythms may be characterised by their intensive use of
syncopation and polyrhythms.
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- In the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip-hop DJs (starting with
Kool DJ Herc) began using several breaks (the part of a funk
or jazz song in which the music "breaks" to let the rhythm
section play unaccompanied) in a row to use as the rhythmic
basis for hip-hop songs. Kool DJ Herc's breakbeat style was to
play the same record on two turntables and play the break
repeatedly by alternating between the two records (letting one
play while spinning the second record back to the beginning
of the break). This style was copied and improved upon by
early hip hop DJs Afrika Bambaataa and Grand Wizard Theodore.
This style was extremely popular in clubs and dance halls
because the extended breakbeat was the perfect backdrop for
breakdancers to show their skills.
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- The Amen Break, a drum break from The Winston's song
"Amen, Brother" is widely regarded as the most used break
ever. This break was first used on "King of the Beats" by
Mantronix, and has since been used in thousands of songs.
Other popular breaks are from James Brown's "Funky Drummer"
and "Give it Up or Turn it a Loose", The Incredible Bongo Band's
"Apache", and Lyn Collins' "Think (About It)".
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- In the early 1990s, acid house artists and producers started
using breakbeat samples in their music to create breakbeat
hardcore, also known as rave music. The hardcore scene
then diverged into sub-genres like jungle and drum and bass,
which generally had a darker sound and focused more on
complex sampled drum patterns. A good example of this is
Goldie's album 'Timeless'.
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- In 1992 a new style called "jungalistic hardcore" emerged,
and for many ravers it was too funky to dance to. Josh Lawford
of Ravescene prophesied that the breakbeat was "the death-knell
of rave" because the ever changing drumbeat patterns
of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out, trance-like
state that the standard, steady 4/4 beats of rave enabled.
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- In recent times, the term breakbeat has become synonymous
with the many genres of breaks music which have become
popular within the global dance music scene, including big beat,
nu skool breaks and progressive breaks. DJs from a variety of genres,
including house and techno, work breaks tracks into their sets.
This may occur because the tempo of breaks tracks (ranging
from 110 to 150 beats per minute) means they can be readily
mixed with these genres, whereas the comparatively fast speed
of jungle and drum and bass (160-180 bpm) may have restricted
the utility of these subgenres to DJs playing slower-tempo music.
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- In the present day, breakbeats can be heard constantly in every
day life. Breakbeats are used in many hip hop, rap, jungle, and
hardcore songs, and can also be heard in other music, from
popular music to background music in car and jean commercials
on the radio or TV.
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# HISTORY OF BIG BEAT
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- At the beginning of the 1990s veral local UK electronic
music genres converged at several points. The disco scene
at that time was very straight and promoted glamour and beauty.
Out of many clubs in London a subculture emerged which
opposed the pop scene but at the same time wanted to dance to
electronic music. Sampling became an integral part of standard
studio equipment and made the fusion of many genres easier.
Norman Cook first defined the word Big Beat named after his
club night 'The Big Beat Boutique', which was held on Fridays at
Brighton's now demolished Concorde club. The music played there
combined breakbeats, rock, funk, drum'n'bass, industrial, jazz,
acid house, hip hop and trance. The term caught on, and was
subsequently applied to a wide variety of acts, notably Bentley
Rhythm Ace, Lionrock, Monkey Mafia, Meat Beat Manifesto
(who had been making similar music since the late eighties
and inspired the whole genre), Lunatic Calm, Death in Vegas
and David Holmes.
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- Big Beat was later brought into the American mainstream
because of the "rock-like" qualities found in the music of
acts such as The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy.
By mixing their electronic elements with the characteristics
of post-grunge, The Prodigy was able to popularize the
Big Beat genre even more. "Firestarter" was The Prodigy's
first big national and international hit. Because of their
cross-genre sound, the band was booked to play rock
festivals causing rock fans to appreciate their electronic
style and opening a gateway for other Big Beat musicians.
The band released their third album, The Fat of the Land,
in 1997 and it topped both the UK and US charts along
with the charts of twenty or so other countries.
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- Other notable Big Beat acts include The Crystal Method,
Overseer, Adam Freeland, Propellerheads, many artists
signed to Brighton's Skint label and London's Wall Of Sound
label, and the later work of The Prodigy. By the time of the
latter's successful 1997 album The Fat of the Land, the music
press in America was increasingly drawn to using the catch-all
term 'electronica' to describe the Big Beat sound.
The Big Beat movement started to decline by 1999, due to
the genre's tendency for playing out samples, and a general
dumbing down of electronica in the late 1990s[citation needed].
Artists started to diversify their sound with other genres such as
Trance (Chemical Brothers), Soul and Gospel (Fatboy Slim).
However, Big Beat had left an indelible mark on popular
music as a true incarnation of rave music, even though it sounded
"rock". Without this association to rock, some have argued that it
never would have reached the heights that it did, or talked to as
many listeners as it did. [1] The genre's mainstream popularity
was to be taken by funky house, then later electro house in the
mid-2000s.
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- Big Beat acts such as The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim
have collaborated on a variety of musical styles from rave, house,
rap, disco, etc. In "Generation Ectasy", Reynolds says, "they've
reminded us that dance music is supposed to be about fun, about
freaky dancing as opposed to head nodding and train spotting."
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- Almost certainly influenced by the work of studio legend
Dougie Wright, big beat tends to feature distorted, compressed
breakbeats at moderate tempos (usually between 90 to 140 beats
per minute), acid house style synthesizer lines and heavy loops
from jazz, rock or 60's pop. They are often punctuated with punkish
vocals and driven by intense, distorted basslines with conventional pop
and techno song structures. Big beat tracks have a sound that include:
crescendos, builds, drops, explosions, crowd-inciting drum rolls,
and whooshing sounds that pan across the stereo-field. Big Beat
is also characterized by a strong psychedelic influence stemming
from the influence of Dougie Wright, Serge Gainsbourg's arrangements
and songs, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and the acid house musical
movement. Particularly in the style of Fatboy Slim, the genre features
a heavily compressed, and a thunderous drum sound (hence the name).
It can also contain off-the-wall samples such as explosions, police sirens,
and snippets of Turntablism. Big beat is similar to jungle music and
drum n bass, both sharing frantic breaks, heavy bass, and an odd
"jittery-rhythm" but big beat tends to have more rhythmic loop beats
than jungle.
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