Classic Breaks

the post-dubsteppers have taken breaks to some pretty cool places in this decade i find.

here is a recent mix from tessela that has awesome breakbeat & locked groove ideas:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=523

Speaking of the 90s hacker/y2k thing, this is the sample/breaks disc that defined it as far as being what so many of the soundtracks and commercial tracks and library music tracks and things that weren't generally breaking new ground but made up the larger pop culture landscape that was part of the whole thing were getting their samples from.  Trip hop, too. The most familiar versions of nearly every overused 90s break and one shot is on there somewhere.  Whether that's a good thing or not isn't for me to judge.

Also here's a short but entertaining Gearslutz thread about early 90s breaks collections.

I haven't been doing much sampling the past year or so but once I've finished the project I'm working on now I think my next thing is probably going to be built around some of these, the actual discs are really ahrd to find and expensive these days but I've got some ISOs stashed away somewhere, and a few CD-Rs I got from a Dutch guy I used to be in a gamelan with in the early 2000s who was really in to psytrance.

Holy shit- I forgot sample CDs were a thing.....

the amen break has the golden ratio in it but only the highly compressed realaudio file from some geocities site from 1999

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Man I've heard the "think about it" break A LOT lately, not just in grime and underground house but also in indie pop and dance quite often. That rave stuff Lone and other future bass producers delved in years ago never went away. . I'm actually pretty sure they are back in vogue, in fact often I hear them sprinkled in or cut up into fairly novel rhythms or more subtle ways, like the Ben Kahn track I posted.

 

 

 

 

I used think about it on like every track on my new album

I have a confession to make. I dislike the amen break.. most of the time. I'm not saying it's objectively bad. I just don't dig it. Sometimes I'll hear it pitched in an interesting way, or with interesting FX on top, but just straight amen break mangling kinda annoys me. I don't like the sound of it. It seems out of place.

Besides that break, I like literally every other classic break I've heard. That I can think of.

Madness

  On 10/5/2016 at 8:12 AM, Brisbot said:

I have a confession to make. I dislike the amen break.. most of the time.

The day the jungle died...

1 week ban recommended

I'd be happy with just a life ban.

Mesh Gear Fox, or MGF as I like to refer to you, we should be banned together in holy matrimony

joshuatx- Pretty sweet tracks, man.  Thanks!

This is the best pack I know of for oldskool jungle breaks.

https://thejunglebaron.bandcamp.com

Resurrecting this thread as just learned about Paradox...the guy is excellent...so tight and yet still has that shuffle....uses an amiga and akai still

Here's a q and a...would love to see him at it in the studio

https://www.scribd.com/document/45058587/Q-amp-A-Session-02-Paradox

  On 9/25/2017 at 4:47 AM, bendish said:

Resurrecting this thread as just learned about Paradox...the guy is excellent...so tight and yet still has that shuffle....uses an amiga and akai still

 

Here's a q and a...would love to see him at it in the studio

 

https://www.scribd.com/document/45058587/Q-amp-A-Session-02-Paradox

wow that is so fucking cool I would love to see him live.

I think this thread's a duplicate of Breakbeat Resource.  Or at least, it was originally, for anyone looking to find various classic breakbeats.

  On 9/25/2017 at 5:10 PM, Oscar said:

 

  On 9/25/2017 at 4:47 AM, bendish said:

Resurrecting this thread as just learned about Paradox...the guy is excellent...so tight and yet still has that shuffle....uses an amiga and akai still

 

Here's a q and a...would love to see him at it in the studio

 

https://www.scribd.com/document/45058587/Q-amp-A-Session-02-Paradox

 

 

that's cool. is like making jungle in Emacs

  On 9/26/2017 at 5:01 PM, ZoeB said:

I think this thread's a duplicate of Breakbeat Resource.  Or at least, it was originally, for anyone looking to find various classic breakbeats.

  On 9/1/2016 at 8:22 AM, Braintree said:

Does anyone have a pack of classic breaks in high quality?

 

Sorry if this is in another thread, but I couldn't find it. Also, Googling turned up a ton of old, low quality bullshit.

  On 9/2/2016 at 3:29 PM, peace 7 said:

....that I downloaded like 500 years ago, prolly from some site called "coolphatbreakbeatloopz.co.uk".

I think you mean phatdrumloops.com, I remember downloading a few breaks at a time to 3.5' disks in an internetcafe back in the days. Mostly shitty quality, but that adds flavor innit. 

  On 9/27/2017 at 10:40 AM, Djeroek said:

 

  On 9/2/2016 at 3:29 PM, peace 7 said:

....that I downloaded like 500 years ago, prolly from some site called "coolphatbreakbeatloopz.co.uk".

 

I think you mean phatdrumloops.com, I remember downloading a few breaks at a time to 3.5' disks in an internetcafe back in the days. Mostly shitty quality, but that adds flavor innit. 

 

Shitty quality?  Surely you jest.

PRISTINE

lol, does anyone have these? Badly ripped breaks would be a great subject for a watmm compilation.

all my breaks come from a CDr from some guy in Sweden made me years ago when CD writers were just coming out. Something went wrong during the burning process and some of the samples have massive distortion on certain sections. A weird happy accident really. The point is: I agree that poor tech makes interesting results. 

  On 9/27/2017 at 9:15 PM, Gocab said:

Badly ripped breaks would be a great subject for a watmm compilation.

god damn yes, I would be 100% up for this

  On 9/28/2017 at 1:05 AM, modey said:

 

  On 9/27/2017 at 9:15 PM, Gocab said:

Badly ripped breaks would be a great subject for a watmm compilation.

god damn yes, I would be 100% up for this

 

The site is still up so maybe the badly ripped/encoded ones are still there.