Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
breakbeat .
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Examples
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Moroccan jazz, Tanzanian hip-hop, Senegalese breakbeats, Zambian guitar bands, Ethiopian dance-pop, and more are regularly posted there.
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Despite having less chance of re-entering current popular culture than The Word getting recommissioned, the beats are seemingly as big as ever at clubs across the country as Big Beat Reunion spreads its breakbeats and techno-tinged tentacles far and wide.
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There is a whole separate genre of dance breakbeats which I plan to cover in a later post.
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Despite having less chance of re-entering current popular culture than The Word getting recommissioned, the beats are seemingly as big as ever at clubs across the country as Big Beat Reunion spreads its breakbeats and techno-tinged tentacles far and wide.
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On which Leila – assisted, on vocals, by improbable electroclash survivor, Mt Sims – boils down the vintage Warp Records aesthetic glitches! skronks! breakbeats! into a cute, toe-tapping electropop curio.
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There is a whole separate genre of dance breakbeats which I plan to cover in a later post.
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Part of Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder collective, Bruder has tapped into the vein established by Lotus's Cosmogramma LP of last year; a continuum where breakbeats and solo extemporisation are paired with abstract sounds, and use of the word "astrality" is encouraged.
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His roots remain in the progressive electronic club-music style known as dubstep, but there's little in Mr. Blake's most recent songs to suggest strobe lights or refracted breakbeats.
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There's something pleasing about the way it eschews all the standard baggage that comes with middle-of-the-road, Radio 2-playlisted artists: no gentle trip-hop breakbeats or cosseting synth washes, no hitmaking songwriters-for-hire buried in the credits, no post-Amy Winehouse retro soul or supper-club jazz scenery.
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Rereleased on its 20th anniversary as RetroActivity, with additional unreleased tracks dredged up from Kirk's archive "I say 'archive', it's more a roomful of boxes", it's essentially a variation on three different tracks, with elements added and subtracted, the bare workings of breakbeats adorned by samples and loops or simply exposed.
Warp Records: Richard H Kirk looks back on a futuristic life
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