I understand all that, but you didn't tell me what the difference is between
your broken step and just plain broken beat? All those bands we originally
called house not house. They all hated that name so for awhile it was called
the West London sound and then broken beat. For about a year those bands
have all been considered broken beat (quite distinct from 2-step which is
faster and more drum & bass influenced). What is the difference between
plain broken beat (for ex People records releases or muc of the stuff on
Laws of Motion) and this broken step? I know what breakstep is--it's 2-step
with a heavy nu skool breaks feel that could almost be a breaks record...ala
DJ Zinc, DJ Deekline, etc. That sound is quite distinctive now from plain
2-step that doesn't sound breaky at all (but does often sound drum &
bass-ish). I just don't get that kind of distinction with broken step. Maybe
it's just me..Aaron can you help me here? Mark?
Dirk van den Heuvel
President/GM, Groove Distribution
"Your Guide To The Underground"
http://www.groovedis.com
-----Original Message-----
From: bump2k selectah [mailto:djessential@webtv.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:23 PM
To: Dirk van den Heuvel
Cc: Elson Trinidad; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: Urban Soul Collective (West London Supergroup)/
Broken-Step?
First, i'm just having fun with that genre name. Not too serious with
it. If you listen to Afronaught's Transcend me, Modaji, Neon Phsion,
most NSM, Seiji, Bugz, etc. they use sort of an off kilter 3/4 beat
pattern like MAW used in Starchasers mix for 4hero. Now not all use
that beat formula. Now with these "broken-step" (:P) tunes I earlier
refer to, they are a similar beat structure to 2-step, but their sounds
are totally different. But Landslide stuff is more Jazzy!!!!!
But what the hell it's just GOOD music. Let's leave it at that.
I'm not going to start a debate between the difference between breakbeat
garage & nu skool breaks, because the 2-step list has already covered
that. :P
Just play the music!!! :)
E.
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