Is Breaks dead?

[dunx]

Is there still a scene? Any nights? Seems to me everything went a bit quiet after 2007.

Shame if it's gone, had some serious riddim and made a nice change from the dubstep when mood required.

Cheers.

[hellfire machina]

Breaks is very much alive, it's in a phoenix from the ashes stage atm. Some really good bits about.

Check for these labels -

Sub Slayers
Rocstar
Standard Audio
Sound Of Habib
Illeven Eleven
MMii
Supercharged
Funkatech
Never Say Die

and Check for these artists -

Afghan Headspin (full on tearout breaks)
Tayo (rootsy vibes whatever riddim he's working)
J Hazen (melodic deep twisted vibes)
601 (party vibes)
Pixel Fist (kinda proto dubstep breaks hybrid)
Specimen A (Techy tearout )
Yoof (he's got a dubstep track on the forthcoming Nu Levels album from Ghost)
Far Too Loud
Deekline
CTRL Z
Pyramid
Stereo:Type


I hope this is of some help.

[dunx]

Nice one, I'll check it out mate.

Any recent mixes about?

[cogi]

Heard it recently at a party and it was incredibly awful. no one seemed to mind though, must've been the mcat

[watoo]

Still going! Think breaks is reinventing itself as the open minded genre mashup it started out as. Check out...

Gella
Baobinga and ID
Peo de Peite

Those guys mashing it up best for me at the moment.

[midnightminustwo]

saying you heard it at a party and it was awful is like saying you heard skuba play and dubstep, all of it, is awful tbh fella.

it's been battered and bruised by new, other styles of broken beat stuff, but i'm glad to say, as an old breaks head, it's coming back strong, doing what it used to do, take influences from other styles and make it it's own, rather than trying to follow a style of it's own. imho.

just don't beleive everything you see or read on certain breaks message boards though

[JazzyJazzy]

Heard it recently at a party and it was incredibly awful. no one seemed to mind though, must've been the mcat

[watoo]

Also the new Zinc stuff has got loads of real breakbeats in it. It's all about pulling stuff from other genres and mashing it up in a big funky pot.

[midnightminustwo]

although not always funky tbh.

[pkay]

dunno about Europe, but it's bigger than ever stateside

[SometimesSean]

You can't really escape breaks whatever scene you're in... even the house scene. Check out Reso & ID - Shifty for one of the best tracks that straddles breaks and dubstep.