Broken Beat

mayorquimby · Post by **mayorquimby** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:41 pm

Anyone got any tune/album/label recommendies?

Looking for 4hero-esque, nu-jazzy type stuff. Bought the silhouette brown album recently and can't stop playing it, brilliant stuff. Anything along those lines would be spot on...

Must be some heads on board?

cheers.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:45 pm

Thinking is big into his broken beat, and did a wicked mix a while ago. I'll try and find it for you...

mayorquimby · Post by **mayorquimby** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:49 pm

LEQ wrote:Thinking is big into his broken beat, and did a wicked mix a while ago. I'll try and find it for you...

ta mate, appreciated.

shaolinsoul · Post by **shaolinsoul** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:33 am

Psyan, Nubian Mindz, Aardvarck, Cousin Cockroach (Dego) all badboy producers.

deeps · Post by **deeps** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:56 am

Kaidi Tatham - "In Search of Hope"
4hero "Play with Changes"
UMOD "Enter the Umod" (2004)
Recloose "Perfect Timing"

Any Bugz related stuff is always worth checking by Afronaught, Daz-I-Kue, Seiji and Dego.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:00 am

MayorQuimby wrote:
LEQ wrote:Thinking is big into his broken beat, and did a wicked mix a while ago. I'll try and find it for you...
ta mate, appreciated.

Here you go, I haven't checked if the link is dead or not but if so PM me or something and I'll try and find it on my HD.

http://www.noir.org.uk/thinking/NuJazz& ... eatmix.mp3

tracklist looks like this:

U R (Yam Who? remix) - Alison Crockett - Wah Wah 45s
Sky's the limit (Yam Who? remix) - Raphael Saadiq - YAM records
Even if it is so - Q-tip - Ra Ra
Kissy face - Five Deez - K7!
The gnomes - Chris Joss - IRMA
Shifting - P.T.A. - EE Records
So you want more? (revox feat. Roots Manuva) - Ty - Big Dada
So long - Mr Scruff - Ninja Tune
Think twice - Detroit Experiment - Electric Soul
Happy - Max Sedgely - IRMA
Can you handle it? (Part 1) - Kenny Dope - BBE
Honest (Jazzanova remix) - Nu Spirit Helsinki - Sonar Kollektiv
>> Rainfall (Bugz in the Attic remix) - Nitin Sawnhey feat. Taio - V2 (tease)
Generations - Shur-I-Kan - Freerange
Spiritual (Seiji remix) - Reel People - Bitasweet
Wah Wah - Domu - Sonar Kollektiv
Get ya dub on (Jimpster remix) - Switch - Freerange
Love 2 Love - Just One - Neroli
Game of chance - John Tejada - Frenetik
I Look in your eyes (RIMA remix) - Korpi Ensemble - Archive
Mascarade - Franck Roger - Versatile
Melting blue ice (Seiji remix) - Joakim Lone Quartet - Bitasweet
Interstellar - Waiwan - Earth Project
>> Funky (a capella) - Five Deez - K7!
Turning the tide (broken mix) - Jinadu & Domu - Bitches Brew
I am the road (Bugz in the Attic remix) - Markus Enochson & E-Man - MAW

somejerk · Post by **somejerk** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:37 pm

LEQ wrote:http://www.noir.org.uk/thinking/NuJazz& ... eatmix.mp3

broken link is making sad.

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:39 pm

somejerk wrote:
LEQ wrote:http://www.noir.org.uk/thinking/NuJazz& ... eatmix.mp3

broken link is making sad.

Fuckery. I'll try and find it tomorrow.

mayorquimby · Post by **mayorquimby** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:30 am

LEQ wrote:
somejerk wrote:
LEQ wrote:http://www.noir.org.uk/thinking/NuJazz& ... eatmix.mp3

broken link is making sad.
Fuckery. I'll try and find it tomorrow.

cheers, tracklist looks

nice one for the replies.. gona check these out

renegatus · Post by **renegatus** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:24 pm

Know nothing about brokenbeat but was wondering, is Madlib's DJ Rels project considered brokenbeat?

mayorquimby · Post by **mayorquimby** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:37 pm

Renegatus wrote:Know nothing about brokenbeat but was wondering, is Madlib's DJ Rels project considered brokenbeat?

Just checked this out, great shout!

Most def Broken Beat.

mayorquimby · Post by **mayorquimby** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:12 pm

2000 black's tunes are SICK.

That is all.

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:33 pm

somejerk wrote:
LEQ wrote:http://www.noir.org.uk/thinking/NuJazz& ... eatmix.mp3

broken link is making sad.

live link and another mix in this thread:

www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=20092

i fuckin love broken beat, and I'm returning to my records a lot more now - I mostly play garage and funky out these days, mixed up together with broken beat too.

Biggest names...

all the bugz, but solo shizz, not the bugz collabs mainly, so check:

Seiji, esp all his remixes

Afronaught/Orin Walters - lots of good afro/cuban type beats

Daz-I-Kue - just sick hard bruk beats

Mark Force - more mad garagey/beatsy stuff

Alex Phountzi aka Al Da Bubble

don't forget the Bugz label Bitasweet, and Main Squeeze as well (and the Blood Fire stuff by Daz-I-Kue)

then you also should check

IG Culture/Son Of Scientist/NSM - everything from hard bruk to soulful stuff to electro-tech

Domu - many sick remixes & og beats in all styles

Stereotyp & Al Haca - 'Vienna sound' stuff, more dancehall-y in places

4Hero - often more nu jazz-ish or RnB

Landslide - broken dub garage perfection!!

Volcov - italian broken tech

the Archive label

there's so much old stuff, the scene pretty much died on its arse when Goya Distro went under - they were central to the scene. Arguably though, when Bugz got back together to do their last LP, the vibe was gone.

The scene never really took off like it should have, there was so much varied music all trying to live together under the name 'Broken Beat' that it was hard to get together regular cohesive club nights and stuff - it always wound up too hard/soulful/jazzy/electro/whatever.

I loved what I call Bruk - harder edged, wonkier beats, less jazzy/vocal where possible, but always with a lot of funk. Check some of the beats & sounds out and see what you like, if you want more I'll go through my records and dig some more names out for you.

and i WILL do another mix one day!!!

62down · Post by **62down** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:47 pm

yo

nice mix ...

i too am a lover of broken beat ...

in case anyone s interested here a mix from my old 'broken' residency .... from a couple of years ago ....

http://www.slamonthebreaks.com/?p=42

will try and find out some more ....

focusses less on bruk more funk / latin influences .... but with heavy beats ...

bit of hip hop to start with too ....

and here s the tracklist too ...

hector rivier - i want a chance for romance
j-live - them that's not
deckwrecka - the big up
visioneers - ike's mood
the pharcyde - runnin'
open souls, the tornadoes and tyra hammond - what do you do (instumental)
q.s.o. vs nas - get down
beatphreak - unknown
the bamboos - get in the scene
fred astaire - mambo el b boy
>> roots manuva - true skool
free the robots - jazzhole
roderigo - lack of afro (natural self mix)
stance brothers - steve mcqueen
snafu76 - slick winter
quantic - mishaps happening
john kennedy - am i groovin you (quantic mix)
solo moderna - the ride
mr scruff and quantic - its dancing time
recloose feat joe dookie - dust
sam irl - you dont feel enough
the yeah yeah yeahs - gold lion (diplo mix)
bugz in the attic - move aside - (thylord and phountzi remix)
puppet jazz - exotic drums (malente's for da funk remix)
nirobi and barakas - bungeejump against racism (diesler mix)
zero db - te quiero
oscar sulley - bukom mashie (quantic mix)
alice russell and tm juke
j dilla - gobstopper

100% vinyl ....

hope you enjoy ....

jera · Post by **jera** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:51 pm

Don't really know much about Broken Beat myself, only what I use to hear on Jay Da Flex's show on 1xtra.

Feelin' Domu's stuff ALOT!

sandman · Post by **sandman** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:56 am

Just d/l mixes now and I'll be interested to see if the tunes in these mixes answers the following question...

I saw Quantic for the 1st time in Bristol on Friday at Basement 45- it was brilliant... all I could think the entire set was "what is that music?" "how the f**k am I gonna find that stuff" etc etc

What really caught my ear was the "world" music he played, in particular loads of tunes with incredible Oboe solos over what I can only describe as a Baleric style rhythms.

I'm not sure if that's the best way to describe it but, if you get what I mean, can you point me in the right direction?

sandman · Post by **sandman** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:37 pm

Edit: That would be "Balkan" not "Baleric" music; I'm not looking for mid 90's house

62down · Post by **62down** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:52 pm

i think a lot of his stuff is columbian / latin influenced these days - he lives out there now....

and plays with a load of old big columbian names ... whereas a lot of his earlier stuff was more heavily influenced by nuyorican stuff from fania etc ...

he s always the don - so accomplished as a musician and so young still!!! (considering he's on his 9th studio album or something silly like that!)

he's got a new album coming with his new band - combo barbaro!

respect to quantic!

saul · Post by **saul** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:56 pm

A good place to find out about recent broken beat releases is at the Commercial Break website. It includes reviews and samples of broken beat albums spanning club-orientated cuts by Domu through to jazzier work by Kaidi Tatham and soul-flavoured broken beats by 2000 Black (a personal favourite), Brotherly (another fave), Bugz in the Attic and the Flowriders. But the site isn't updated that often, so you're better off signing up to its RSS feed or email updates. Another album worth checking out is Bugz in the Attic's Fabriclive 12 compilation that came out in 2003...

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