Benjin Noys Sounds Like London

book Sounds Like London he said that it occurred “when London sound systems appropriated Hardcore from the rave scene to spice up with breakbeats and dance hall reggae”. (Bradley, 2013, p341). Benjin Noys also offers up a good description of the birth of Jungle in his article Into The ‘Jungle’ (Noys, 1995) Hall, mentions “Drum n Bass is a sub genre of electric dance music that first developed in the UK in the early 1990s which had its origins in US Hip Hop, Detroit and European Techno, and Jamaican reggae and ragga” (Hall, 2009, p5). We can be even more specific when tracing the origins of Drum N Bass, as the birthplace can be tracked back to a night called “Rage” at The Heaven nightclub in London’s Charring Cross. This took place on a Thursday

However, where as Drum N Bass has a clear definable place of birth and a traceable history, Breakbeat does not. Its history is obscure and therefore overlooked. As the tempo got faster for Drum N Bass some producers and clubbers stayed at the slower tempo, which turned into Nu Skool Breaks in 1996. As Childs pointed out, most people do not even know or realise they are listening to Breakbeat. He wrote that, “if you’ve danced in a club at any time over the last 10 years, you’ve probably danced to breaks” (Childs,

There was the Blapps Posse who I have already mentioned, Depth Charge AKA Jonathan Saul Kane (who is a Breakbeat pioneer making tracks under his “Depth Charge” alias as well as others), Shut Up and Dance from East London (who gave it a real London sound with tracks like £10 to get it). From New York you had Frankie Bones who was making a lot of Breakbeat based dance music in the late 80s and early 90s under various names at the traditional 120-130 BPM. However, it is important to note that’s Bones music all came under the House genres.

When I asked long stranding producer and Jungle pioneer Bay B Kane about his classic “Break The Limits EP” from 1990, which included Breakbeat based tracks he said, “we just called it Hardcore, then Jungle Techno”(2016). In comparison I interviewed DJ, Producer and Label manager Vinyl Junkie and asked him what is his current attitude towards Breakbeat as a genre these days, he replied:

I don’t see breakbeat as a genre… jungle is breakbeat music, oldskool 92 hardcore is breakbeat music… so is hip hop… Breaks is not breakbeat music really… HAHA. How fucked up is