Florida Breaks & beats
Description
Collaberation list of World-known Florida break beat sounds a.k.a. Orlando breaks, Tampa breaks or electro breaks. played in our 90's dance music scene.
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0 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes
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1646
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Playlist Last Updated
March 12, 2020
Mood
Mixed Mood
Track Popularity Rating
Deep
Style
Varied
Average Release Decade
2010s
Main Genre:
Electronic
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Hi, electronic music nerd here. Allow me an attempt to add to the answers here. First off, *Tertiary Noise* is kind of a mix of Breakbeat (actually more technically Nu Skool Breaks), and electro, which is kind of a more old school, robotic form of dance music from the 80s connected to both Krafwerk and the early B-Boy era. Here's a super classic electro track: [https://open.spotify.com/track/4FupIlegZgvXUuK79qcoKW?si=ebb64f0b2706458f](https://open.spotify.com/track/4FupIlegZgvXUuK79qcoKW?si=ebb64f0b2706458f) Electro is a rich genre of it's own, and has long been overlapped with breaks, particularly in Florida style breaks which were popular (you guessed it, in Florida) during the mid to late 90s. If you take a quick listen to this playlist, you'll hear the electro influence [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/28dtfsMihHh2pnQ9yz9e7K?si=d0dc3d485c7345c7](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/28dtfsMihHh2pnQ9yz9e7K?si=d0dc3d485c7345c7) So Tertiary Noise is a combination of Electro, and Nu Skool Breaks, which came up in the early 2000s and which Tipper was a key figure in. To directly answer your question of "what is breakbeat?" Like u/etherealliquid & u/HaroldKnutsach said, its a genre that was built around the Hip Hop approach of sampling old breakbeats from funk records of the 60s and 70s, and turning those into the main beat structure of a hip hop tune. As an electronic music genre, it started to become a thing somewhere in the early-mid 90s, the major distinction being that it *didn't* have a 4 on the floor kick pattern like the rest of the House, Techno, and Disco tunes generally do. There was a time in the late 80s and early 90s where it was all just known as "House Music", but all of the styles and techniques we are now familiar with were all kind of mashed together. Over time, certain DJ's, producers, and dancers leaned towards preferring certain sets of sounds, and all thedance music genres we know now kind of slowly emerged as refinements and iterations of certain slices of this mashed up sound. Techno separated from house, as did hardcore (later to become Jungle and DnB), Breakbeats, Ambient, IDM, etc... Anyways, by the late 90s / early 2000s we had Nu Skool Breaks, which was a more DnB influenced form of Florida Breaks: darker, bassier, more stripped down and less 'ravey' in the candy raver sense of the term. What signifies breakbeat is a few things: tempo, beat structure, and sound palette *Tempo* is / was 130-135 bpm. Slower than Drum n Bass by a significant amount, but faster than House and some Techno. But generally in that uptempo, dance music range of BPMs. *Structure* is broken beats, aka *not* 4 on the floor kicks. By the time Nu Skool came around, a lot of producers were no longer sampling 70s breakbeats, but were writing them from scratch, which tended to give them a heavier, often stiffer sound. For example, this classic early Nu Skool Breaks track [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q5g3ne3YpU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q5g3ne3YpU) *Sound Palette* is the broadest part of breaks, particularly and Nu Skool and post-Nu Skool, since there were flavors from every genre kind of thrown in, but if I had to try to pin down the center of Breakbeat venn diagram it would be: Heavier Drums, Big Bassline, and then whatever on top, from rolling synth arpeggios, Hip Hop MCs, Female vocals, synth stabs, percussion beds, etc. Generally the sound of breaks has kind of paralleled the Drum n Bass sound palette over the years since a lot of the Nu Skool guys were DnB heads first, and it's kind of a sister genre that still operates under the "bass music" umbrella. So I hope that helps a bit. Breaks = 135ish bpm, *not* 4 on the floor kicks, big basslines. In terms of Tipper's output, his Breaks stuff includes *The Critical Path* Pretty much all his *Fuel Singles* *Holding Pattern* *Relish the Trough* *Tertiary Noise* and the *Snake Eyes* single A quick note for any of the rebutters: Yes, technically Glitch Hop is structurally made of breakbeats. But since it's a different tempo, it was given a different name, and what I mean by "breakbeat" in this case is the genre, not the beat structure (though the genre is named after the beat structure, it's confusing). :) One last comment: if you find that you like the Breakbeat / Electro sound of Tertiary Noise, you might also want to check out Si Begg's work, a contemporary of Dave's, who is also a brilliant producer and makes a similar sound. Here's a remix Tipper did for him (still a favorite of mine) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGD-z0Bv8R4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGD-z0Bv8R4) and some of his own tunes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu25UZMHXFI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu25UZMHXFI) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-2BzsSo\_n0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-2BzsSo_n0) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvE21Kj3ljo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvE21Kj3ljo) Enjoy!
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