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Guau and Yo Speed headline four Breaks & Bass dates in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane from 2–5 October 2026, with shared closing sets and local support.
The Only Place gathers nine Bryan cuts for Close Your Eyes: from Like This to the full picture, with breakbeat, UK bass and a garage turn.
Introduction: Why “Essential” Doesn’t Mean “Most Famous” Talking about breakbeat means talking about a family of sounds: from the rave pulse and breakbeat hardcore of the early ’90s to the big beat that blew up…
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Girls, Money, Drink & Drugs, the joint album by Specimen A and Ivory on Knuckle Duster Records, goes into Optimal Breaks in full: twelve breakbeat and UK bass tracks released piece by piece from April to September 2026.
Changes, MBreaks' new album on 83, captures her personal and sonic evolution: breakbeat, UK garage, bass and collaborations, without leaving broken rhythms behind.
Andalusia and Spain are driving breakbeat forward while the UK and United States retain their influence. The artists, labels and sounds defining summer 2026.
A clear definition of breakbeat: broken, syncopated drum patterns, roots in funk breaks and its path through rave, jungle, big beat, nu skool and scenes such as Andalusia.
Eduardo Cubillo and DJ Jonay spent nine years on a socio-historical film about nineties rave as counterculture — now on Movistar+ (54 min cut) and Filmin (90 min).
There was a time—not so long ago—when discovering breakbeat wasn't about opening an app, following a playlist, and letting an algorithm do the work. Breaks music circulated the way important things do in vibrant scenes:…
Introduction: When 4 Bars Changed the Course of the Dancefloor Before sample packs existed, before WAV drum loops and breakbeat kits sorted by BPM, there was an artisanal craft: locating the exact second on a funk or…
During a very specific stretch of the ’90s, breakbeat—in its most accessible and media-friendly face—was literally pop culture. Breaks were played on mainstream radios, in commercials, soundtracks, and festivals where…
Telling the story of breakbeat means accepting, from minute one, that there are two narratives that intersect but do not replace each other. On one hand, the genre’s history: dates, genealogies, technologies, mother…
DJing breakbeat has always been an exercise in balancing energy and control. It’s not enough to just “beatmatch” two tracks: you have to tame syncopated hits, kicks that don’t fall where your house intuition would place…
At the end of the 90s, breakbeat was at a turning point. Big beat had brought breaks to the mainstream with guitars, hip hop samples, and a “stadium” attitude, while the British rave culture continued to evolve towards…
Talking about breakbeat and big beat means diving into one of those classic misunderstandings within club culture: two related terms (one actually lives inside the other) that are often used interchangeably in everyday…