Some records work as a collection of tracks. Others mark a specific moment in an artist's trajectory. Changes, the new album by MBreaks released on 83, belongs clearly to the second group.
Across twelve cuts, the Seville producer and DJ gathers much of the ground she has covered in recent years: breakbeat, UK garage, bass music, collaborations, remixes and different ways of approaching broken rhythms that have never stopped being the centre of her music.
The title is not accidental either. For MBreaks, Changes stands for the personal and artistic shifts that have accompanied her evolution as a producer: a transformation of her sound, her working methods and her own understanding of music. Rather than fixing a new formula, the album shows the opposite: an artist increasingly uninterested in imposing limits on herself.
Beatportal has presented it as the record that best summarises that evolution so far. The twelve tracks can be heard above, via the Beatport previews.
From the Seville scene to a new generation of Spanish breakbeat
Behind MBreaks is Carmen, a DJ and producer closely tied to Seville and to an Andalusian scene in which breakbeat never really disappeared.
Her relationship with music goes back well before her current phase as a producer. In 2017 she was named Best Breakthrough DJ at the International Breaks Awards, while 2020 brought one of the turning points of her career: Sala Cosmos gave her the chance to programme and develop breakbeat events in her hometown.
Her growth since then has been constant. Monegros Desert Festival, Dreambeach — including the 2023 opening set, the DJ moment she is proudest of — and elrow are already part of her itinerary. Her work in Seville has also continued through programming and support for new talent. In 2026, MBreaks named as one of her goals the work of still building community from Pandora Club, opening space for local artists and supporting new DJs and producers, especially women.
That path now leads to Changes.
An album that refuses to stay in one sound
Released on 2 September 2026 by 83, Changes contains twelve tracks and deliberately avoids building a single closed sonic identity.
The foundation remains unmistakably breakbeat, but the album moves naturally between breaks, UK bass and UK garage.
TKTX, previously unreleased, may represent that creative freedom better than any other cut. MBreaks has explained that one of the fundamental ideas while making the album was to enter the studio without deciding in advance what each session had to produce. One day might end in aggressive breaks; the next, in structures closer to garage.
That approach explains the record's variety.
My Bass, at 138 BPM, keeps a clearly Breaks / Breakbeat / UK Bass structure.
Pure Energy, by contrast, shifts toward UK garage at 135 BPM.
Paradise returns to a more spacious, progressive breakbeat.
Lola raises the intensity to 140 BPM.
And Bulerias, one of the titles that inevitably connects the album with her Andalusian identity, is classified as UK Garage at 130 BPM.
There is no attempt here to prove versatility for its own sake. The range works because it answers the album's own concept: change.
Analog Saw: one of the starting points
Among the tracks brought back onto the album is Analog Saw, a collaboration with Bowser and one of the most important records in MBreaks' recent trajectory.
The cut combines acid breaks with a strong club orientation and reached number one on Beatport. For MBreaks it was also an especially significant moment: she has pointed to that Beatport number one, achieved with her brother Bowser and inside 83, as one of the achievements she is proudest of as a producer.
Its place on Changes makes sense because it lets you hear where part of that evolution begins.
Bowser returns on Blake, while Guau, founder of 83, shares production with MBreaks on Dancing Astronaut.
The connection with 83
The relationship between MBreaks and 83 is an essential part of the record.
The label, founded by Guau in 2016, has spent years working around a very specific idea: keep the identity of breakbeat without turning it into a permanent exercise in nostalgia.
In recent years 83 has consolidated itself as one of the international reference labels in the genre, with a catalogue that brings together Spanish and international artists and a recurring presence at the top of Beatport.
Changes fits that philosophy.
Guau highlights precisely one of the qualities that best defines MBreaks: her ability to understand what works on a dancefloor without settling for reproducing a formula she already knows will work. Each new production tries to introduce a variation, an idea or a different direction.
That is why this album sits especially well inside the 83 catalogue.
Collaborations and reinterpretations
Changes does not present MBreaks as an isolated producer either.
Besides Bowser and Guau, the album includes Space Invaders, with Majestic Noise.
It also recovers two remixes: Soniquete, originally by Faenna, reworked by MBreaks with Jose Rodríguez; and Why Can't Be Love, by Baymont Bross, turned by MBreaks into a 137 BPM breaks track.
Both function inside the album as another part of her artistic language: not only building from scratch, but taking someone else's idea and carrying it toward her own way of understanding breakbeat.
Twelve tracks, several faces of the same producer
The sequence of Changes summarises how wide her sound has become. There is acid, UK garage, more classic breaks, British-influenced bass and elements that connect directly with Andalusian musical culture. The Beatport previews at the top of this article let you follow that arc in the album's own order.
More than a new album
There is another reading that makes Changes deserve particular attention.
MBreaks now occupies a visible position within a Spanish generation of artists helping to change the international image of breakbeat. And within that scene, her role as a woman carries additional meaning.
She has acknowledged that at first she wondered whether a proposal influenced by international sounds would find space in Andalusia. The scene's response was precisely one of the reasons that encouraged her to keep developing her own path.
She now also sees a growing presence of women inside breakbeat. She still considers there is work to do, but she understands that new generation of DJs and producers as a source of new ideas and new ways of approaching the genre.
Guau goes further when speaking of her influence: for the founder of 83, the weight of MBreaks is not limited to her productions, but also to her consistency, her way of working and her capacity to become a reference for other women who want to enter the scene.
Changes as a statement
That is why the title ends up feeling especially accurate.
Changes does not claim that MBreaks has abandoned her earlier sound. Nor does it try to break with breakbeat.
What it shows is an artist who has widened the possibilities she finds inside it.
From the acid breaks of Analog Saw to the UK garage of Pure Energy and Bulerias, via the direct energy of TKTX, Lola or My Bass, the twelve tracks work as photographs of different points in the same process.
MBreaks is still making breakbeat.
She simply needs, less and less, for anyone to tell her how it should sound.
And that may be the most important change of all.
You can follow her catalogue on the MBreaks artist page, the label 83 and the weekly charts selections.