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broken beat history piece for FACT

Post by mrbeatnick » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:57 pm

http://www.factmag.com/2010/03/08/20-best-broken-beat/

a history of the bruk, 20 best / underlooked / classics / a guided tour with context basically.

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Post by groucho_marxx » Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:15 pm

Nice write up dude
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Post by Jubz » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:01 pm

Safe Beatnick. Just working my way through now with youtube open. My only proper contact with this music was a Bugz mix on Breakin' Point magazine sometime in 2003.

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Post by dj_donga » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:03 pm

looking forward to checkin this - cheers
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Post by james fox » Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:50 am

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Post by Notorious J.I.M. » Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:55 am

Yeah great primer. It should mean there are a few more heads scanning the broken section at MVE though so time to track down those essentials sharpish! :wink:

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Post by aleks zen » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:03 pm

sorry im a bit dim, whats this article saying? broken beat is dead? i can hear alot of its influences in the new housey shit coming out now, only its darker..
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Post by 62down » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:33 pm

good article.

although i'm always surprised people don't reference the brighton and manchester tru thoughts element of broken beat.

for me that was as (if not more) inspiring and rough edged as anything bugz were doing ...

early quantic beats were Hard! thats the first thing that turned my head.

spose it was a bit later tho ....

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Post by groucho_marxx » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:35 pm

pretty much spot on with the tunes selected, I cant believe i was picking up some of them tunes 10 years ago!! where did the time go?!
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Post by Notorious J.I.M. » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:54 pm

62down wrote:good article.

although i'm always surprised people don't reference the brighton and manchester tru thoughts element of broken beat.

for me that was as (if not more) inspiring and rough edged as anything bugz were doing ...

early quantic beats were Hard! thats the first thing that turned my head.

spose it was a bit later tho ....
It's probably because they're not thought of as part of the "'nuum" and journos are mostly London b(i)ased. The Tru' Thoughts lot were seen as part of the "nu jazz" scene that included the Austrian guys that came out of Compost and crews like Rockers Hi Fi from Birmingham. Agree that they were ploughing a pretty similar furrow at times though.

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Post by mrbeatnick » Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:26 pm

nice one for the comments. i guess everyone has their favourites and theres no way you can say it all in 20 records. for me, broken was an almost entirely west london concoction, as synoymous with that area as carnival is. It's fair to say quantic, russ gabriel, ian o brien, kirk de giorgio, KJM, compost records and many others were experimenting with afro-latin rhythms in electronic music at the time. but the best sound system stuff and the first stuff of that ilk was really down to IG, Dego et al.

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Post by incnic » Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:36 am

i know its outside the scope of the primer but where would you say what is / was known as 'breaks / nuskoolbreaks' fit into this?
quiet a few excellent tunes in that genre came out around the same time and crossed over into what was garage / broken beat and vice versa.
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Post by mks » Thu Mar 11, 2010 6:21 am

I love the bruk and am still making it. Nice list, I actually have 95% percent of those records. I feel like the broken scene has gone back underground, but perhaps that is a good thing, lot's of room for more experimentation.
incnic wrote:i know its outside the scope of the primer but where would you say what is / was known as 'breaks / nuskoolbreaks' fit into this?
quiet a few excellent tunes in that genre came out around the same time and crossed over into what was garage / broken beat and vice versa.
You know there was a bit of crossover at that time but it was happening in more of the early dubstep/2step/breakstep/brokenbeat thing. A lot of dj's were playing all of these sounds. One key example was J Da Flex's show on 1Extra where he was playing all of these sounds during the show.

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Post by diaryofanobody » Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:52 am

some great artist on that list
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