I Hate Breakcore

by **Blastopore** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:53 pm

^ totally a made up genre, but whatever.

I've been listening to a type of music which consists of broken beats and runs at a high tempo. It consists of mostly drum loops and glicth samples, but what I find to be the strangest element of this music is the presence of half-tempo bell-chime melodies which give it a soft sound. Everywhere I have looked this music is still thrown under the embrella genre of "breakcore" but it's totally different from other artists I know in the genre.

Some artists I have found that have this sound include Wisp, Nybbl, Cepia and Valepene Screen.

Has anyone heard of these artist or heard anything that remotely matches the above discription? Have you heard it called something besides Breakcore? Do you like it? What is your favorite color? Cereal or Oatmeal? Red Shoes with green socks?

by **PEPCORE** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:02 pm

Never heard of them, but why make another subgenre, breakcore is everything and nothing, it can be anything, and the every breakcore producer has a different like style.

I hate breakcore.

by **rtificial** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:10 pm

Wisp is some great stuff. Him and Gaerth Clarke(sp?) on the defunct sublight label were awesome. I picked up their albums before the label quit selling music. I need to check out and see if they jumped to another label or got any new releases out. I just kinda call the stuff glitch IDM. Another guy that does some mind blowing stuff like that is Richard Devine on the warp label.

by **Silent Frog** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:22 pm

I thought I recognised Wisp from somewhere. He had a few releases on Sublight. Looks like most of his music is avaliable free on his website http://wisp.kaen.org/

Personally, I split experimental electronic music into two main categories. Artists who focus on a break-driven sound, typically with the snare in the foreground, lots of bass and typically either comical, agressive or dance-orientated I call Breakcore.
Artists whose music is either driven by broken basslines or melodies, has a light but less jovial sound, and would not be heard at a rave (unless it's at the after-party) I'd call Glitch.

Some people would call it IDM but I find that an unhelpfu umbrellal term which emcompasses a lot more than just breakcore and glitch. Basically, no-one really knows what anything is and that should be seen as a good thing. Experimental music is exactly that: Experimental.

I like this stuff. A lot of the time it seems a lot more inteligent than the harsher breakcore sound and it's great to relax to. Chris Clark is a favourite of mine and some of The Flashbulbs's stuff is similar. I probably have a load of others which I know of but I can't remember right now.

by **DJ Dijitol Junkey** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:42 am

I may be a total moron here, so tell me if I am. But have you tried drill and bass? It's very similar to breakcore, except lighter... I guess you copuld throw the flashbulb and some aphex twin in there, any one else I really am not sure of.
Experimental genres are hard to keep track of, there's just too many.

by **dean** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:40 am

personally, i like this one best:

by **Silent Frog** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:39 pm

DJ Dijitol Junkey wrote:I may be a total moron here, so tell me if I am. But have you tried drill and bass? It's very similar to breakcore, except lighter... I guess you copuld throw the flashbulb and some aphex twin in there, any one else I really am not sure of.
Experimental genres are hard to keep track of, there's just too many.

No you aren't being a moron, Drill n Bass is how Aphex classified his musical style. Pepcore is right on this though, breakcore is everything and nothing. It is an anti-genre. Everyone calls their style something different but it makes no difference to what it is.

by **Thallium** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:32 pm

Blastopore wrote:Has anyone heard of these artist or heard anything that remotely matches the above discription? Have you heard it called something besides Breakcore? Do you like it? What is your favorite color? Cereal or Oatmeal? Red Shoes with green socks?

I've heard Wisp but he's "labelled" as IDM. His stuff is ok but not my cup of tea. My favourite colour is white. I don't eat breakfast. Green Dunks with red accents.

by **cuttingagent** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:59 am

Blastopore wrote:^ totally a made up genre, but whatever.

Has anyone heard of these artist or heard anything that remotely matches the above discription? Have you heard it called something besides Breakcore? Do you like it? What is your favorite color? Cereal or Oatmeal? Red Shoes with green socks?

yes i've heard some. it could probly be described as ambient chill-out melodic post idm breakbeat, but why bother? 625 degree kelvin. granola. adidas gazelles, stripetop socks, preferrably mismatched.

by **gameeatboy** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:35 pm

id say artists such as Wisp Cepia etc would fall into some IDM, breakcore, Drum n Bass and glitch hybrid genre...and i love it

by **Lycan** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:06 am

yea, I love this shit. It's chill, but also core... hahaha. what does that mean?

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