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Broken beat (sometimes referred to as " bruk ") is an electronic dance music genre characterized by syncopated beats and tense rhythms, including staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps.
- Coop Nights
- Fabriclive 12 – Bugz in The Attic, 2003
- Cousin Cockroach – This Ain’T Tom N’ Jerry, 2002
- Kaidi Tatham & Dego – Got Me Puzzled, 2003
The physical hub around which the broken beat scene revolved was CoOp, a club night started by IG Culture, Dego, Demus and Phil Asher, initially at the Velvet Rooms before moving to the iconic Plastic People in Shoreditch. Like so many genres, the golden age of broken beat was relatively short-lived, although that’s not to say that it necessarily p...
Broken beat was never really an album genre, with the focus much more on club-friendly tracks rather than full-length releases. If you’re looking for a bigger fix, a good starting point is the 12th instalment of London superclub Fabric’s open-minded mix series, FabricLive. Broken beat supergroup Bugz In The Attic highlight the eclecticism of the sc...
An alias of Dennis McFarlane, best known as Dego, founder member of hugely influential London group 4hero, this 2002 release was a CoOp favourite at the time but reached a bigger audience thanks to a 2014 rerelease on Berceuse Heroique. A swaggering 125bpm classic with vicious sub-bass, laser zaps and a wildly skittering rhythm, This Ain’t Tom N’ J...
Yet another Dego production, with Kaidi Tatham - a hugely prolific multi-instrumentalist whose mark is all over broken beat - taking centre stage with a sublime jazz-funk keyboard performance over a shuffling, lolloping beat. Five minutes of dancefloor heat that showcases the delicate touch of the genre’s finest moments.
- Future Music
Unlike House Music, there is no staple “sound”, but at its most basic level, Broken Beat consists of stuttered, “staccato” or “offbeat” (hence the term “broken”) rhythms, and the rhythms can be drawn from influences as diverse as house, hip-hop, soul, reggae, jazz, drum and bass, funk, Latin and Afro-beat.
Jul 24, 2023 · Central to the evolution of broken beat (also known as bruk) in the late ‘90s was People, a small label out of West London. The main players worked under a dizzying range of aliases, but check the credits on those early releases, and there was one name that seemed to be omnipresent—Kaidi Tatham.
Dec 28, 2023 · Breakbeat music is an electronic music sub-genre that uses drum breaks from other music genres like soul, jazz, funk, and hip hop. A breakbeat occurs when a part of a song where the rest of the band stops playing, leaving the drummer. The drummer continues playing the main beat throughout the song.
Mar 19, 2016 · The broken beat scene was a short-lived moment in London music history that stretched from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s, propelled forward by exciting records, scattered rhythms, and rolling...
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Broken Beat. More a scene centered in West London than an easily fenced-in sound, broken beat looks as far back to '70s Jazz-Funk and Dub Reggae while also containing germs from '80s and '90s movements like house, techno, drum'n'bass, and contemporary R&B.
