A look at break beat for the new DJ.

[crazy123ful1]

this whack



[MrSein88]

I think you started a little late by opening at '89 (Steinski etc ?) but that Silver Bullet track is a classic slice of UK hip hop circa late 80's.Leftfields Phat Planet ? awesome.Nice post.New DJs need to know their history, it's part of the path.

[Tavener88]

Tick follows tock follows tick..

awesome vid,

[MrP00sy]

can u do sum vids on music that was part of the 80's 90's rave scene, like acid house or happy hardcore or breakbeat hardcore or jungle etc.

[JaxnHustler]

very memorable Robocop sample from the movie at the start of that track! Breakbeat rules! Breakbeat Kaos - english record label! want more of this? google 'breakbeat kaos'! some massive tunes released on this label. they also do drum n bass and dubstep.

favourite breakbeat tune so far: Back Up - Krafty Cutz rmx <<<< check it out y'all

[TheZaaaach]

That leftfield track is sick.

[FrAxelD]

Great vid! I mix a lot and I played at a few party's, I think I'll get me some more old breakbeat to add some variation to my sets.

It's getting really easy to get lost in all the sub-genres... when I listen to breakbeat I hear Jungle and Minimal DnB but I guess it needs is own title.

Thanks for sharing mate.

[Gbjerke]

whats so nice about breakbeat is that it puts all the different EDM genres into one beat.Which is why IMIO breakbeat is key for mixing in variety. You can stay on the same beat but have things from dubstep, electro, dnb, everythin

[wildman2782]

Yeah the break beat started with a track in 1969 called amen brother by the winstons. There's a whole historical video on it here at you tube. It's really interesting for DJ's.

[djnoonebg]

@wildman2782

You got it wrogn i think - The "Amen" sample is a base for jungle/hardcore stream. Breakbeak however is more calm and little bit funky.

The roots are definetly come from funk music, but also has been twisted in more gray and stiff direction by the sound of evolving electronic music. PS: i started an Facebook group called "Real breakbeat Hardcore" that is dealing only with breakbeat, not jungle,drum and bass or breaks - in there you will see almost none of the Amen usage.

[threecheerer]

i know they used the 2nd track for a cartoon. i believe it went by something like "transformers: best machines" idr, i was 7 when i watched the show

[meedic]

it reminded me of bas rutten as he said "bang bang bang bang" 0:55 ^^

[ausdublin]

good vid johnno, all you people bitching, just shut up, make your own vids a response or leave it out!

[barzer101]

TO put it an easier way to describe a break beat,

house is the bass drum thud....4 beats in a bar...

boom boom boom boom....

break beat has a full drum sound...

high hats,snare,bass drum...

There are sooooo many sampled breaks out there...too many to be able to say any one was the 1st to be used...

The Amen track is the most readily accepted one though....

[barzer101]

Everybody...cool the jets....

There isnt a definitive "break beat"....

They were stolen from many places....

1 thing is true though,they were taken from r&b and soul tracks from the 60`s and 70`s...

The b-boys of the late 70`s,b being for break,used them to get there groove on to the breaks...

The likes of Herc would loop the break to extend the dance...

later in hip hop,it was sampled to use in whole drum tracks...

Then it landed in the UK to be the drum track to drum and bass and jungle...

[lightoffuturedays]

check out kool herc or 45 king for a taste of proper 'breaks'.

[dropboxcox]

EVERBODY READ THIS !!!!!!!

BASICLY THE BREAK IS CALL THE AMEN BREAK THIS WAS CREATED IN 1969 BY THE WITSONS THE TRACK WAS INTITLED AMEN BROTHER AND WITHIN THIS TRACK WAS A 6SECOND LOOP "DUM CHA TICA TICA DUM CHA " THIS WAS THEN INTERPARATED INTO MANY DIFFERNENT SLYLES OF MUSIC! THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN THE AMEN BREAK IN 1969 NOT IN 89 AND THE 90s SO GET THE FACTS RIGHT BEFORE U START TELLING PEOPLE RONG THINGS !! AS MUCH AS I LOVE UR VIDEOS ELLASKINS U GOT THIS ONE RONG !

[djganesh]

yes and no. and a sure fire way to have people dismiss anything you say is to type in all caps and use things like "ur". "Amen, Brother" might have been the mose obviously sampled break it wasn't the where it all began. It's just a syncopated beat. Listen to the beat in "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" for example. That was released in 1965.  "Amen, Brother" came out in 1969. Or listen to the intro to James Brown's Ed Sullivan gig. it's damn near d&b. It's just music people. Everybody calm down.

[dropboxcox]

breakbeat is what i live for mate and it just anoys me when people get the facts rong ! well it is where it all started if u think about it papas got a brand new bag was not seen as a "breakbeat" nor was james brown's ed sulivan gig intro because it was before the point of recignision ! it was founded from the AMEN break u cant mention ne thing before this time because it was not clasified as a breakbeat people didnt get the sample from james brown they got it from the Amen break ! if ya get me!

[dzjai]

@dropboxcox

Read stuff about this, his facts are right... also Bboying didn't start til around 73... there had to be a break beat by then so whoever said it was in the 89s or 90s... are straight out WRONG... Listened to some Kool Herc for example :)

[HomasterX]

DJ kenny can you listen? did he say "break beats started in this year or that year? " all he said was "i have a record here from 1989" to disprove someone who claimed it was from 1990, he didn't say "this is what year it is from" i think you need to learn to listen before you make an ass out of yourself.

[MrDJKenny]

You listen to what he said plus it called break & beats they are two different thing I have that song The Amen Brothers. No one start cutting breaks & beats until the 70's. I used to go out to lots of jams in the late 70's.

[MrGnaes]

funky drummer-james brown look it up and wait for the break the band and james take and the drummer beats away...thats a break beat..probably the most famous one..definitely the most sampled in early hip hop

[worldsworstjukebox]

I'm still not sure what breakbeat is. OK, so it's NOT House Music (BAM BAM BAM BAM), but then what is it? Is Radiohead breakbeat? Is Britney Spears? Is Coldplay? They all have songs with beats that don't just go BAM BAM BAM BAM.

[HecticHeX1911]

hey dude look up dj iceys song escape, dj x , baby anne, listen to e few of them and thats pretty much what break beats songs are, of course for house music look up dj irene, drum and bass dieselboy and ak1200, hope this might have help ya

[worldsworstjukebox]

Sorry, had to laugh a bit near the start.

"I want to get into breakbeat. Now, what is it?"

[Pltinum]

OMG! that's where the proxy got there sample from! :o..

[selectajay2000]

not a good examples for breaks..shouldve used some james brown for example..lol

[EKStoneProductions]

I thought for sure you'd play Two Bad Mice's "Bombscare" or 4 Hero's "Mr. Kirk's Nightmare"... When I think of the emergence of breakbeat those always pop into my mind... thx for the leftfield reference though. Great track!

[britnyrocks1]

anyone know the nam of the song

[maxman4310]

he says both at the end

[britnyrocks1]

thanks. got em

[djindoe]

well a breakbeat is essentially the "break" of a record, where the vocalist takes a break and the band would play on in this fashion. back in the late 70s and early 80s is when kool herc and zulu nation would use these specific parts to loop and create a whole different song.

[swarm69]

cilit bang bang bang bang. no realy great vid and the dirt is gone

[wardeyman]

Breaks go back alot further than 89.. Real Hip Hop is made from old jazz breaks from 50's and 60's. The Winstons Amen Brother is from the 60s and its the most sampled break of all time..

[turtlesthehomo]

this sort of break isnt the same as it is today... its basicaly a whole new genre

[pabloleo12]

i might be wrong but i thought grand master flash was the first to make breakbeat. he were dj'ing at a party, he was spinning the same record on both decks and kept a breakbeat going between the 2 records if you know what i mean. deck1 play, deck 2 rewind, deck 2 play, deck 1 rewind on a 4 sec break.

[mozaks80]

the winstons - amen, brother - first proper break beat from the 60's

[lazybones200]

Sampled from leftfield on the guinness advert

[AzteYkcir]

oyyye mate ya li'il prick. eat mah nads ya twat. shabalaba ding dong ya daft basta'ad

[fezsez]

I don't think the Leftfield tune *is* breakbeat - it doesn't seem syncopated enough. Check out 'blue note' for the earliest breaks.

[rybred87]

haha hes usin one of the same shittty mixer i got

[funky5043]

Leftfield~!

[1marching]

fucking guiness adverts....

shaun of the dead "the only thing that can redeem mankind is teamwork"

"was that from an advert?, yeah it was guiness extra cold"

[NateNoS]

you have an amazing vinyl collection my man!

[parkourspot]

shut up! if he sais its from 1989 it is why the hell would he come here and lie???

[momoblanco]

Just so you know the movie robocop came out in 1989 so your tam tam record could not be from 1989 unless they found a way to sample sounds from a movie in theaters

[stapledtodeath]

uhm, robocop was released in 1987. your google-fu is poor.

[boogiemaam]

I am a 39 yr old mom. I dont go to places where there is a dj. But I hate being ignorant of younger peoples stuff. I feel filled up with breakbeat knowlege. This is a more palatable club type music to people like me. Thanks for giving me way cooler music to put on my Ipop for the gym. kinda like the chemical brothers eh?

[TheeREALNeuralTech]

Breakbeat is one word, fyi.

[vegunited06]

fail. "breaks" ... breakbeat is a term used for the beats heard from an old record. ignorance on youtube is a bliss.

[00Ivanov]

Indeed, ignorance on youtube is a bliss.

A breakbeat is simply a fill or break provided solely by the drummer. Older records are simply cooler to sample because they don't sound so produced (that's where the amen break gets its dirty edge from: raw recording methods)

Though, recently the term "breakbeat" is used for a syncopated drumbeat which has relations or has origins in Amen, Funky Drummer and such (Boom-cha, Boom Cha).

[vegunited06]

ok, it's not really the guy in the video im yelling fail at, just wanted to clear that up. BUT, to all knows people who love to give EVERYTHING a name, i've heard a 'breaks' tunes, classified as 'breaks' even though it had a soft house beat underneath.

[00Ivanov]

Yeah, that's true. Though I do think that most electronic music is trying to sound like "itself" by inventing all kinds of subgenres nobody cares for (Techstep, Darkstep, Neurofunk, Choppage)

Useful video though =)

[N3ppyZ]

Darkstep, Techstep and Neurofunk could be seen as genres on their own. Parties are given for each subgenre of Drum 'n Bass on its own. Drum 'n Bass is too wide to just give it one party for all the Darkstep, Neurofunk, Liquid, Jump-Up stuff.

[allex73]

how can i download or find that tam tam record silver bullet?

by the way thanks for the teaching, I though the breakbeat was a upgrade from breakdance music. where can i find more breakbeats tunes and some text?

[shaolindreams]

well explain mate couldnt of said it myself..

<3 Breakbeats :)

[pageup213]

Bubblegum Pimp - Phat Booty (updated version of phat planet, absolute tune).

[panos18578]

hi from Greece! "20 sec to complire" is from the movie "ROBOCOP"!

[petar1987]

godfather is the best breakbeater

[mactobbe]

ordered some nice break beats from Juno records ..

Called "Scratchy Seals , Training Wheels" and "This is for the Dj Skip Proof volume one". Its genius ;) the first is lots of breakbeats, the secong one is for scratching :) so youve got scratch material and background!

[Liquidgrin]

Most of the breaks that I play are from cross the pond.. UK knows whats up with the breaks.

[dharmaboy75]

Dudes, I was grooving to Phat Planet back in the day. I didnt know that this was break beat till I started getting into it more with Liam Howlett of Prodigy fame.

I gotta start DJ'ing.

[rohanvonneoray]

Bam bam bam bam bam

[O2OttO]

fantastic

[chrme777]

THE BEST BREAKS R FROM FLORIDA!!!!!

[JumpWide]

Educated man from the motherlands (And I'm UK so I'm not just sayin(g) that :) )

[Beatside101]

AMEN BREAKBEAT. The original sample.

[dazerone]

True that.

Amen Break - Winston Brothers.

this guy has diffrent equipment each time!

and he is playing old skool style breaks.

New School breaks are good too eg Plump DJ's, Stanton Warriors, Adam freeland etc.

Leftfield - Phat Planet great tune.

[brennfett]

bang bang bang

[jago6293]

Sound pal f***ing love break beat

[chevaliertopaz]

apreciate the way you try not to insult house music:d

thanks for that

[dave5056]

hay mate good stuff i wanted to no if u have a tune called air dog? its a really dirty beat>> carnt remmber the hole name lol but if u can help me find it that wud be grate >>it all so the lp it had a pic of a long bus on it\?? u no where i can get it from or do u hav the song> thanks dave.

[twistedmiclead]

THE FIRST BREAK BEAT SONG HAD A SAMPLE FROM ROBOCOP ... this makes me happy !

[th0r90]

breakbeat for president !

[6666sharath6666]

LOL Be@t

[dix0nyt]

ya we like breakbeat now thank you mr DJ, we know that we're not listening to house going BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG

ok i'll stop pasting now. (sorry)

[xtw1st3dx]

thanks idiot!

[Althrow]

Breakbeat Rulerz!!! if you wants to go at the bests parties of breakbeat in the world come to Andalucia!! Lol! We're the bests!

[elcuers]

killo tiene la mesa echa un asco colegaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[pakasak]

that second song is used as the Transformers-Beast Machines intro song.....good songs.. gotta love breakbeat

[aereone]

This guy knows my feeeeeeeeeeeeeelings!!!!!! he cares! good job mate! b-@ heart

(la cancion se llama 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY de Silver Bullet (lo dice como tres veces))

[WyloDj]

alguien sabe el nombre de la primera cancion?

who know the name of the first song?

[pakasak]

silverbullet-20 seconds to comply

[Semca]

Wylodj, la canción primera es conocida por Andalucía y Jaén concretamente, como "la de los pajaritos"... por aquello del pipipipi... yo la tengo, la tendría que buscar en alguna sesión antigua, creo de Kultur o KarM ...si la quieres, dimelo.

[FunkyHa]

you are my hero <3

boh my selectah ;)

[bangbeatkid]

exept the last song

[bangbeatkid]

BANG BANG BANG BANG 8)!!!!!!!!! hahaha

the beats pretty fly

[rattler067]

oh i don't spin breakbeat but that track he had played called phat planet by leftfield now i have to pick that up.. it sound like more techno like the beats are slammin

[DjR3YNA]

La mejor musica del mundo!!!!!

[djpsych]

There's a constant in breakbeats and DnB. Always listen for that snare. It's gonna be hittin on a 4/4 hit.

[monster5o]

ellaskins, deejayvista mentioned this same thing a couple of pages back and you didnt answer, he asked how you cout the bars and measures when your mixing breakbeat into something else because there is no steady kick/beat like there is in house?

[guero82]

There can be many debates where breabeat is from but I think if you asked the average Joe what is Breakbeat...90% will recognize "Busy Child" by Crystal Method as an example.

[rrlee]

nativeops...if you really know your stuff, you would know that the break beat originated in the 60's soul and r & b music...not in Florida!! The Amen Break was a drum solo perfomed by Gregory Coleman of the group The Winstons in the song "Amen Brother"..this was something like 1969...and if you even go back a little more, you will listen to James Brown cuts..lots of breaks there...Look at Jimi Hendrix song "Fire"..that has some of the dopest breaks ever recorded.....

[MRJackMack]

Dude where can i some of that man????

[ellaskins]

to MRJackMack, go on line and type in break beat record shops, uk,us , france ect depending on where you live. all the best johnathan

[olandris]

bang bang bang :-)

[DjStaxx]

Hip hop originated in the mid to late 70's..

[nativeops]

sorry to be a dick man, just setting it straight

[ellaskins]

to nativeops, My friend , no problem at all, to be honest if you cant say what you feel there would be no point in life. I love all types of music, i grew up with hearing classical( mum playing the piano). Personaly i think break beat is very funky and a good break beat record/toon can rip up the dance floor any day of the week!!

[nativeops]

To set the record straight, Breakbeats originated in Florida, United Sates. I have watched breakbeats evolve since the beginning because i've lived it. It's rythmic influence originated from soul, & funk bands from 60's & 70's, which also sparked hiphop in New York in the 80's. But modern breakbeats weren't born until Floridian Musicians like Dj Magic Mike, Planet Soul, and Dynamix dropped their first tracks in the late 80's and early 90's.

[nativeops]

Just because the kick and snare doesn't follow a house quarter beat pattern doesn't make it a breakbeat. What actually terms it is the build up/ break down/ (drum solo) of the song. the beats that actually break down. otherwise it can be labeled as soul, funk, ect. everytype of music has a song stucture formula. except house, because it's a repetitive quarter beat, through the entire song..  how boring, and gay might i add.. House destroyed the image of breakbeats and it's culture.

[ellaskins]

to nativeops, Thanks for you comment.

[nativeops]

uh oh, you fuckin brits tried to fuck up the term breakbeat after you guys tried to claim it after we originated it in the US. mainly the southeast US.

HOUSE IS GARBAGE!!!!!!

[Stevieboy74]

Sorry but since when did Brits try to claim brakbeat as our own? It's news to me. Breaks have always originated from the US as far as I'm concerned, they were a very American thing. You seem to be focusing on modern day breaks tho, but as I mention in my previous comments you need to got back to the beginning to truly understand the term breakbeat. Peace

[Jamezus]

could i get a list of good ones. would really appriciate it

[sambuo7]

Could you explain what big beat is?

[tranceboiz]

loving the old school breakbeat...

[enjoydavid]

Yeah that track was used on the guinness ad. That baseline is unforgettable - The visuals on the ad were good too. Black and white with the horses as the waves - Sweeeet!

[BigMilan]

robocops adn 10 inches. yays. first time i hear robocop in a song, and i've never EVER heard of a 10 inch.

[slappy991]

if your bringing house or w.e in put it over the snares

the Bm pf t b t b t bm pf or w.e lawl so over the snares (pf)

[tubotuyo]

I didn't understand what you said slappy991 :S

[Nyiddle]

drum n bass and breakbeat = my two favorite genres.

[craxgt]

Good vid, I like your fisheye :)

[bevboyz]

haha guiness.

tick follows tock follows tick follows tock!

[luke23waltz]

yo love that beat.

[djsean2007]

That leffeild track is in a few computer games and i think the formula 1 racing coverage use it as an intro!

[DeejayVista]

Hey, how d'you count the beats to these two songs then?If you're bringing in a house music after this, how would you put the main beat of the house song over the first beat of this one?

[cooldude13233]

nice video's on your DJ'ing!

[craigk2000]

would i be right in say that the silver bullet tune samples - james brown - get up offa that thing, phat planet choooooooooooooooon rare as rockin horse sh*t too

[hoking1968]

Great video ! Always wondered what breakbeat was before seeing this. Thanks

[Shemxl]

oh man, i could go on and on about breakbeat, big beat, nu skool breaks. Hard to tell actually, but i think breakbeat grew directly from hip hop - funk. Fatboy started a subgenre of breakbeat - Bigbeat. Along with The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy (starting from The Fat Of The Land) they started the best period in the history of music since funk. I wish more people were making bigbeat tho...

[Sanmu2]

yes man! loved these tracks. good video aswell

[corski]

Heavy record...Coldcut released a record in '87 called beats and pieces you would like....It was kind of an EP with "that greedy beat". Do you have it? Another one I play out often is Fools gold...You know that one for sure...

[ellaskins]

O yes a classic, fools gold!!! love it!

[p0trill023]

what kind of mixer is that? I would like to know whats good one for beginning scratching and party mixing for about 200$

[ellaskins]

Hi, it's a cheep behringer mixer, i have it as a spair.

[bangitrealgood]

I HAVE THE SAME MIXER... my other is a numark 5000 fx... behringer is still a good make...by the way, great videos...been following them all....SUBSCRIBED :)

[djbrownpower]

seems as if break beats have roots in funk? sweet vid

[Stevieboy74]

They do. Lets get back to the basics here. Using a hip hop track from 1989 and saying it's where breakbeat started is completely wrong and very misleading, no disrespect Ellaskins. That silver bullet tune was one of many hip hop tracks that sampled and used breakbeats, and re-edited breakbeats, and 1000's did it before that track came along

[Stevieboy74]

Breaks mainly came from and were sampled originally from early 70's onwards funk/Soul/Jazz tracks. They were called breaks because they were lifted cleanly from a break in the track where the drummer would solo, and at the orignal old skool Kool Herc etc block parties the break dancers used to dance to breakbeats that DJ's would cut up and loop using old funk and soul records

[Stevieboy74]

Breakbeats have a real-life feel to them because they were originally drummed by real drummers of course. If you slow a lot of drum and bass records down, especially those using the Amen break you can hear the realness of the drums, the human aspect if you like. Modern day breaks are usually one's that have been created electronically using edited snippets of existing break sounds or other percussion sounds

[Stevieboy74]

If you want to learn a bit more about breaks and the origins then check out this video about the Amen break, pretty much the most sampled of all time - watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

No disrespect towards Ellaskins in my comments, I just wanted to try and make the subject a bit clearer as it's often confused. Your video's are good Ellaskins and help a lot of newcomers DJ's out there so respect - Steve

[SirBreakFast]

lol, funkin it up!

[flashsco183]

dont really understand.

Can still be counted in 4/4 timing, is it meant to be 2/4 or 2/2 (been ages since ive done any music theory)

[Nyiddle]

I don't think that's what he was trying to point out, he was pointing out the fact that House, Electro, you know... Genres where there isn't much complexity in the drum line where it's a steady kick on the 2 of every measure and nothing else, while breakbeat is moreso a full-on drumline, not the

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

b b b b

that house music generally offers. Hope that's right.

[johngr2007]

Yeah, I forgot to remind you about the breakbeat video. Thank you so much for this video. I love the two tracks you played in the video. Hopefully, this video will give some exposure to one of my favorite genres. Thanks Johnathan it means alot. Peace

[bearztagger]

i love DNB+break beat!

[sethizzle]

new mixer?? or the old mixer? cool video... break is pretty dope, but i still live for house bro.

[monnie110]

Good stuff. Hehehe the Robocop sample. :)

And if you like Breakbeats people, check out Omar Santana on here. He plays some slammin hard beats.

[5646fgdfgr544]

great video! i always wanted to know this.