At 06:37 PM 12/7/01 -0600, Aaron Shinn wrote:
>Afrika Bambaataa wrote an excellent essay in the early eighties, under 500
>words, on what "break music" was, which explained beautifully what Planet
>Rock was all about.
>
>It centered around his experiences as a DJ, noticing that the crowd
>typically went nuts when the song would "break down" to just beats and
>bass, or when the band would cut out and let a bigger beat take over the
>song. Well, Bam started buying two copies of his records so he could
>extend the breaks as long as he liked. Eventually this gave birth to the
>idea of making music which is *only* about the breaks. Which led to quite
>a few other things, obviously.
>
>So if you take Bam's perspective, pretty much all dance music with looped
>beats is breaks music...
>
>If anybody knows where a copy of this essay is located online, please let
>me know. I've been looking for one for a while. I think I read it on the
>wall of the Release The Groove record shop in soho.
Sure you're not thinking of DJ Kool Herc here? Sounds just like stuff I've
heard him say, plus he sort of "invented" (read: imported from Jamaica) the
procedure, whereas Bam is more of a drum machine/electro guy--
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