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Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that uses drum breaks, often sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B.Breakbeats have been used in styles such as Florida breaks, hip hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK garage styles (including 2-step, breakstep and dubstep).
Florida breaks, which may also be referred to as The Orlando Sound, Orlando breaks, or The Breaks, is a genre of breakbeat dance music that originated in the central region of Florida, United States. [1] Florida Breaks draws on hip-hop, Miami bass and electro. It often includes samples of early jazz or funk beats from rare groove or popular film.
Nu skool breaks or nu breaks is a subgenre of breakbeat originating during the period between 1998 and 2002. [1] The style is usually characterized by more abstract, more technical sounds, sometimes incorporated from other genres of electronic dance music , including UK garage , electro , and drum and bass .
DJ Icey, (born Eddie Pappa), is an American DJ, electronic music producer, and remixer, credited by Allmusic as having helped to "jump-start the increasingly fertile dance scene in and around Orlando, FL, during the '90s."
Some suggest he began as early as 1970, predating noted "father of hip hop" Kool Herc, [10] while others contend he began after Herc in 1976, in fact, attending and drawing inspiration from Kool Herc parties. [11] He vowed to use hip-hop to draw angry kids out of gangs and form the Universal Zulu Nation. [12]
Deekline is a British producer and DJ of breakbeat, breakstep, drum and bass and garage music. He is the innovator of breakstep music which is bass-heavy, breakbeat-infused 2-step, first characterised in his 1999 hit "I Don't Smoke", which reached No. 11 on the UK charts.
The sound created combined a variety of music styles including funk, soul, and hip-hop. [5] The transition was to a more abstract form of drum and bass. Many artists that started releasing through 4hero 's Reinforced label are now considered pioneers of broken beat.
Jungle is a genre of electronic music that developed out of the UK rave scene and Jamaican sound system culture in the 1990s. Emerging from breakbeat hardcore, the style is characterised by rapid breakbeats, heavily syncopated percussive loops, samples, and synthesised effects, combined with the deep basslines, melodies, and vocal samples found in dub, reggae and dancehall, as well as hip hop ...