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Breakbeat

120–145 BPM High energy

Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that uses drum breaks, often sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as Florida breaks, hip-hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK garage styles.

emerged ~1986 · derived from Electronic ↗ see in graph

Sound of Breakbeat

Stateside
PinkPantheress
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Capable of love
PinkPantheress
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Contact
Kelela
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Omen
The Prodigy
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Warrior's Dance
The Prodigy
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Related Tokens

Acid Alternative Ambient Bass Beat Belgian Big Breakcore Breaks Britannique Britpop Brostep Classical ConcrèTe Dance Dance-Rock Dancefloor Dark Deep Downtempo Drum Dub Ebm Electroclash Electronic Electropunk Energetic Euro Eurodance Experimental French Funky Goa Happy Hard Hardcore Heavy Hip Hop House IDM Illbient Instrumental Jazz Jungle Leftfield Metal Modern Musique Neo-Psychedelia Noise Non-Music Nu Pop Progressive Psychedelic Ragga Rap Rave Reggae Rock Soul Synth-pop Tech Trance Tribal Trip Turntablism Uk Vocal disco drumstep dubstep electro electronica garage glitch grime industrial other techno wonky

Also Known As

breakbeat;electronic;jungle

Sources & Attribution

Source Entry Name Confidence Link Notes
edit.music library Breaks, Breakbeat, Bass, UK, Derived from data — Imported from genre-map.json; variant: breaks / breakbeat / uk bass
Last.fm Breakbeat Derived from data —
Wikipedia Breakbeat music Derived from data ↗

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