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32-420: Plump DJs are an English dance music duo consisting of Lee Rous and Andy Gardner , considered to be early pioneers of the breakbeat genre in the late 1990s. Throughout the 2000s, they have been very prolific creatively, releasing many celebrated underground singles, albums compilations. Also remixing the records of well-known dance music mega stars such as deadmau5 , Mark Ronson , Fatboy Slim , Orbital and

64-624: A double-CD post-breaks compilation on the Global Underground series. They released the "My Hi Tops" single on the Global Underground imprint, too. In 2010, the Plump DJs began releasing material on their own label Grand Hotel. They have also become one of the label's new residents at events held at Fabric and Matter nightclubs. Their recent remixes have been more eclectic with artists such as deadmau5 , Dave Spoon , and

96-529: A long build-up section that leads to a breakdown and a climax, often having numerous sonic elements being added or subtracted from the track at various intervals in order to increase its intensity. Progressive breaks artists include Hybrid , BT , Way Out West , Digital Witchcraft , Momu , Wrecked Angle, Burufunk, Under This and Fretwell. Mixmag Mixmag is a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine published in London. Launched in 1983 as

128-471: A magazine covering all dance music and club culture. Mixmag , in association with its original publishing company, DMC Publishing, released a series of CDs under the "Mixmag Live" heading. The magazine, which reached a circulation of up to 70,000 copies , was later sold to EMAP Ltd. in the mid-1990s. In 1996, an American version titled Mixmag USA was launched. It was renamed Mixer after the UK edition of Mixmag

160-420: A print magazine, it has branched into dance events, including festivals and club nights. The first issue of Mixmag was printed on 1 February 1983 as a 16-page black-and-white magazine published by Disco Mix Club , a DJ mailout service. The first cover featured American music group Shalamar . When house music began in the 1980s, editor and DJ Dave Seaman turned the magazine from a newsletter for DJs into

192-591: A two-CD mix compilation called Urban Underground and in February 2003 they produced the eighth album in the FabricLive series for the acclaimed London venue. Their artist album Eargasm was released in July 2003 and featured synthesizer pioneer Gary Numan and Lamb vocalist Louise Rhodes . They began a quarterly residency at Fabric , running their own Eargasm nights at the London club, and secured placings in

224-475: A wide range of different genres in their sets. This has led to breakbeats being used in many hip hop , jungle / drum & bass and hardcore tracks. They can also be heard in other music, anywhere from popular music to background music in car and clothing commercials on radio or TV. The Amen break, a drum break from The Winstons ' song "Amen, Brother" is widely regarded as one of the most widely used and sampled breaks among music using breakbeats. This break

256-572: Is a subgenre of breaks that is essentially a fusion of breakbeat and progressive house . Much like progressive house, this subgenre is characterized by its " trancey " sound. Its defining traits include extended synthesizer pads and washes, melodic synth leads, heavy reverberation , and electronic breakbeats. However, unlike progressive house, very few progressive breaks tracks have vocals, with most tracks being entirely instrumental or using only electronically altered snippets of vocal samples for sonic effect. Typical progressive breaks tracks will often have

288-509: The Think Break (from " Think (About It) " by Lyn Collins ). Beginning in 1973 and continuing through the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip hop turntablists such as DJ Kool Herc began using several funk breaks in a row, using drum breaks from jazz-funk tracks such as James Brown 's " Funky Drummer " and The Winstons ' " Amen, Brother ", to form the rhythmic base for hip hop songs. DJ Kool Herc's breaks style involved playing

320-597: The DJ magazine Top 100 DJs list and won a multiple Breakspoll awards. In 2008, they rebranded their Fabric night, calling it Headthrash after their latest album and opening up the music policy to other styles apart from breakbeat. Their DJ sets and productions began changing accordingly, and the four-deck live DJ show they developed allowed them to pull off more creative mixes in clubs and at festivals such as Coachella , Glastonbury , and Skolbeats. In 2009, their contract ended with Finger Lickin' Records and they signed to release

352-577: The Florida breaks subgenre followed during the early-to-mid 1990s and had a unique sound that was soon internationally popular among producers, DJs, and club-goers. In 1994, the influential techno act Autechre released the Anti EP in response to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 , deliberately using advanced algorithmic programming to generate non-repetitive breakbeats for

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384-543: The Stanton Warriors . In 2011, Rous and Gardner signed acts SUBMO & Bonsai Kat to their Grand Hotel label, and continued releasing music through this platform. Their advanced 4deck DJ live show toured extensively in the UK and abroad, and their Light Fantastic club record became a 'tune of the year' in Mixmag. This year saw them hold regular sold out shows at London recently opened XOYO nightclub. 2012 marked

416-472: The Stanton Warriors . They cemented their international status through their 10-year residency at London's famous superclub Fabric, in a career that has taken the duo to the largest stages on all four corners of this earth to perform. Lee Rous and Andy Gardner met at proto-breakbeat label Freskanova in west London in the late 1990s. Gardner was making music with Matt Cantor from the Freestylers , and Rous

448-555: The artist's permission or even knowledge. "Acid breaks" or "chemical breaks" is acid house , but with a breakbeat instead of a house beat. One of the earliest synthesizers to be employed in acid music was the Roland TB-303 , which makes use of a resonant low-pass filter to emphasize the harmonics of the sound. The Asian breakbeat scene is a remix genre blending elements of Freestyle , electro , progressive trance melodies, Florida Breaks drums and Southern rap, Crunk . It

480-494: The beat, and even to individual sounds by themselves. Individual instruments from within a breakbeat can be sampled and combined with others, thereby creating wholly new breakbeat patterns. With the rise in popularity of breakbeat music and the advent of digital audio samplers, companies started selling "breakbeat packages" for the express purpose of helping artists create breakbeats. A breakbeat kit CD would contain many breakbeat samples from different songs and artists, often without

512-475: The break recorded on their original music release. With the advent of digital sampling and music editing on the computer, breakbeats have become much easier to create and use. Now, instead of cutting and splicing tape sections or constantly backspinning two records at the same time, a computer program can be used to cut, paste, and loop breakbeats endlessly. Digital effects such as filters , reverb , reversing, time stretching and pitch shifting can be added to

544-594: The break, by the 1980s, technology allowed anybody with a tape recorder to find the breakbeat. In the late-1980s, breakbeat became an essential feature of many genres of breaks music which became popular within the global dance music scene, including acid breaks , electro-funk , and Miami bass , and a decade later big beat and nu skool breaks . In the early 1990s, acid house artists and producers started using breakbeat samples in their music to create breakbeat hardcore . The hardcore scene then diverged into subgenres like jungle and drum and bass , which generally

576-459: The duo, as they developed their sound further after their inspirational first tours of the US & Canada. Collaborating with UK soul singer Juliette Ashby. "You Belong to Us" the single struck a chord with London design team Baked Agency, and was presented with a forward thinking drone cam video, hitting the streets with rave reviews from Vice's Noisey blog. This paved the way for a bumper 2014, towards

608-489: The end of which the duo turned their attention, reviving their breakbeat sound. Note : Elastic Breaks and Breakbeat Annual were both released as free CDs in separate issues of Mixmag . Breakbeat The origin of the word "breakbeat" is the fact that the drum loops that were sampled occurred during a " break " in the music - for example the Amen break (a drum solo from " Amen, Brother " by The Winstons ) or

640-455: The full duration of the tracks, in order to subvert the legal definitions within that legislation which specified in the section creating police powers to remove ravers from raves that "'music' includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats". In the late 1990s, another style of breakbeat emerged, funky breaks , a style that was incorporating elements of trance , hip hop and jungle . It

672-400: The program "Mundo Evassion" was broadcast» or «Evassion Planet» which was presented by Dani Moreno. Artists to highlight: Digital Base , Dj Nitro , Jordi Slate, Man, Wally, Kultur, Jan B, Anuschka, Ale Baquero. The breakbeat of Andalusia has been forming its own style, based on a simple structure of "Pre breaks" + "Pre drop" + "Drop". All this repeated a second time with some variations in

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704-522: The release of "Gobbstopper" and "Dont Stay in Mix" showing a return to form. This in turn fueled the release of their Dirty Weekend album on GHR and further sellout shows at their now beloved NEST and XOYO venues in London. They continue to tour the UK club and festival circuit and worldwide now regularly in the US and Canada. The duo's remixing services have been called upon by Moby, Orbital, Mark Ronson and The Loops of Fury. 2013 then saw continuing support for

736-492: The same record on two turntables and playing the break repeatedly, alternating between the two records. Grandmaster Flash perfected this idea with what he called the "quick-mix theory": he would mark the points on the record where the break began and ended with a crayon, so that he could easily replay the break by spinning the record and not touching the tone arm. This style was copied and improved upon by early hip hop DJs Afrika Bambaataa and Grand Wizard Theodore . This style

768-513: The song. With this structure, the tracks are mixed when one has passed the drop, until the pre drop of the next one arrives. Respecting the melodies without breaks. Andalusian breakbeat has once again become a mass industry, with festivals almost exclusively dedicated to this genre, such as the Winter Festival, Summer festival, Floridance, Retro fest, or Olibass. Progressive breaks or prog breaks , also known as atmospheric breaks ,

800-672: Was DJing at and promoting the Passenger nights in Kings Cross . Their first release together, "Plump Chunks"/"Electric Disco", came out on Finger Lickin' Records in 1999. When they released the A Plump Night Out album – basically a live DJ mix featuring their own original music – they began to achieve international fame. The Plump DJs were asked by dance music culture magazine Mixmag to mix their February 2001 cover CD, which they called Elastic Breaks . Soon after, in May, they released

832-473: Was extremely popular in clubs and dancehalls because the extended breaks compositions provided breakers with more opportunities to showcase their skills. In the late 1970s, breakbeats had attained a large presence in hip hop. In the 1980s, the evolution of technology began to make sampling breaks easier and more affordable for DJs and producers, which helped nurture the commercialization of hip hop. Through early techniques such as pausing tapes and then recording

864-420: Was faster and focused more on complex sampled drum patterns. An example of this is Goldie 's album Timeless . Josh Lawford of Ravescene prophesied that breakbeat was "the death-knell of rave" because the ever-changing drumbeat patterns of breakbeat music didn't allow for the same zoned out, trance-like state that the standard, steady 4/4 beats of house enabled. Incorporating many components of those genres,

896-460: Was first used on "King of the Beats" by Mantronix , and has since been used in thousands of songs. Other popular breaks are from James Brown 's Funky Drummer (1970) and Give it Up or Turnit a Loose , The Incredible Bongo Band 's 1973 cover of The Shadows ' " Apache ", and Lyn Collins ' 1972 song " Think (About It) ". The Winstons have not received royalties for third-party use of samples of

928-968: Was originated and made popular by predominantly Vietnamese American and Southeast Asian DJs throughout the U.S. South (Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina) during the 1990s and 2000s. Notable active DJs include New Orleans' Dj Babyboi, Tinman, and Loopy. Big beat is a term employed since the mid-1990s by the British music press to describe much of the music by artists such as The Prodigy , Cut La Roc , Fatboy Slim , The Chemical Brothers , The Crystal Method and Propellerheads typically driven by heavy breakbeats combined with four-on-the floor kick drums, synthesizer-generated loops and patterns in common with established forms of electronic dance music such as techno and acid house . Breakbeat combined with electro music, often using 80s synths, robotic sounds, vocals with vocoders or talkboxes , and infused with elements of funk . Electro breaks

960-536: Was pioneered by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force , Kraftwerk , Man Parrish , Cybotron , Newcleus and In Spain from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, breakbeat became a massive social movement, especially in the southern part of the country, Andalusia . Largely responsible for the spread of the "broken rhythm" in Andalusia, was the public radio station of the autonomous community: Canal Sur Radio and Canal Fiesta known at that time as "Fórmula 1", where

992-543: Was pioneered by the Chemical Brothers and James Lavelle 's Mo'Wax Records imprint. The genre had commercial peak in 1997, when such music was topping in pop charts and often featured in commercials. The most notable artists of the sound were The Prodigy , Death in Vegas , The Crystal Method , Propellerheads . The tempo of breaks tracks, ranging from 110 to 150 beats per minute, allows DJs to mix breaks with

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1024-528: Was sold to EMAP. It ceased publication altogether in 2003. After a fall in sales in 2003, Mixmag was acquired by Development Hell, in 2005. In 2007, Nick DeCosemo became editor. Duncan Dick became editor in April 2015. Patrick Hinton became editor in August 2022. In 2012, The Guardian collaborated with Mixmag on a survey of British drug-taking habits. The magazine paused its print edition during

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