By scoobylol
Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:48 pm
As we all know there's a lot of looking back to go forward involved in everything in life from music, to fashion and most elements of creativity.
Since the 90s and the mega eruption of hardcore, jungle and subsequently DnB, and it's slight death in the early 2000s I haven't really heard much in the way of breakbeat influenced music per se, at least in the more mainstream realm.
I mean everything since then has very much been, to my ears, made up of one shots, or at least less akin to the more "traditional" methods of using breaks. A more sample-based approach as it were seemed to have faded out of fashion being replaced with more a synth-tastic 80s vibe.
But over the past couple of years, and I'm looking more at pop music here and even genres like dubstep I've noticed a slight trend moving back towards a sound that is almost reminiscent of the early hardcore scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwHe0ddggig
That's somewhere in the charts at the moment, and I've heard a few other tunes too. I think there was a Dizzee Rascal tune using the Think break not too long ago.
Emalkay, who is a big dancefloor dubstep producer has a couple of tracks on his new LP that are more break driven. Skream's remix of Going in for the Kill, again featured a big amen drop more akin to the hardcore vibe than dubstep.
I'm not too sure what my point is here but I hope there's a resurgence in break driven music. We've seen "future garage" emerge as a genre, I'd love to see "future jungle", particularly considering the way DnB has evolved in the past couple of years to be more akin to techno and A-Ha.
Since the 90s and the mega eruption of hardcore, jungle and subsequently DnB, and it's slight death in the early 2000s I haven't really heard much in the way of breakbeat influenced music per se, at least in the more mainstream realm.
I mean everything since then has very much been, to my ears, made up of one shots, or at least less akin to the more "traditional" methods of using breaks. A more sample-based approach as it were seemed to have faded out of fashion being replaced with more a synth-tastic 80s vibe.
But over the past couple of years, and I'm looking more at pop music here and even genres like dubstep I've noticed a slight trend moving back towards a sound that is almost reminiscent of the early hardcore scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwHe0ddggig
That's somewhere in the charts at the moment, and I've heard a few other tunes too. I think there was a Dizzee Rascal tune using the Think break not too long ago.
Emalkay, who is a big dancefloor dubstep producer has a couple of tracks on his new LP that are more break driven. Skream's remix of Going in for the Kill, again featured a big amen drop more akin to the hardcore vibe than dubstep.
I'm not too sure what my point is here but I hope there's a resurgence in break driven music. We've seen "future garage" emerge as a genre, I'd love to see "future jungle", particularly considering the way DnB has evolved in the past couple of years to be more akin to techno and A-Ha.
