breakbeat

Noun

Meaning

(music, countable) A form of syncopated rhythm prominent in much African music.

(music, uncountable) A genre of electronic dance music based on such syncopated rhythms.

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Examples

Instead of gangsta rap with its hard-hitting lyrics, trip hop offers a more aural atmospherics with instrumental hip hop, turntable scratching, and breakbeat rhythms. Source: Internet

Musical elements Common musical aesthetics include a bass-heavy drumbeat, often emulating the slowed down breakbeat samples typical of hip hop in the 1990s, giving the genre a more psychedelic touch. Source: Internet

David Hesmondhalgh and Caspar Melville, "Urban Breakbeat Culture: Repercussions of Hip-Hop in the United Kingdom," in Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001), 104–105. Source: Internet

However, during the early 1990s, the two main subdivisions of this underground rave movement were primarily either a. House & Techno (often used interchangeably or vaguely used to define a multitude of subgenres of house music) and b. Breakbeat Hardcore. Source: Internet

Venues and parties such as Stompy, Harmony, CloudFactory, Cyborganic lounge, Acme warehouse started to fuse the Breakbeat sound from hardcore trax with the more melodic pace of house music. Source: Internet

Get your daily dose of pop goodness with a slice of breakbeat. Source: Internet

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