Word: breakbeats
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...prophets of black anger and frustration, the definers of racial identity, and the proponents for social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop’s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into the musical form that burst into popular consciousness with the Sugarhill Gang and Run-D.M.C. He analyzes how the violence and rage of NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” during the crack epidemic changed...
...dancefloor music is alive, forces you to listen with more than your ears. What corner you inhabit depends on how you feel. Why else would U.K. grime artists like Dizzee Rascal and Wiley Kat have come up with the inhuman beats they rhyme over? They grew up listening to breakbeat hardcore and jungle, whose twisted beats became their “rhythmic code” (to borrow from Simon Reynolds...
...VADIM AND THE RUSSIAN PERCUSSION. Led by Vadim, one of Ninja Tune’s most elite sample warriors, the highly touted Russian Percussion aim to funkify body and soul with integrated scratching, beatboxing and rhyming. What’s more, world-renowned breakbeat ninja Hrvatski (from Somerville) will provide the opening DJ set at 9 p.m. Flip out. Friday, February 14 at 10:30 p.m. Tickets $10. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
...Chemical Brothers album Come With Us is an invitation to jump on board this frenetically-paced breakbeat juggernaut. Rip it out of the plastic, stick it in the CD player. Bounce around the room. The album opens strongly and with no hesitation or introduction the fat electronic beats begin...
...driving breakbeat rhythms are everywhere in this album, and that’s what gives it its strength. Check out “Pioneer Skies”: A great track and no words can convey the overpowering urge it sets off to dance. Come With Us may not have immediate dance-floor fillers found on the Chemical’s 1999 release Surrender like “Hey Boy Hey Girl” or “Out of Control.” But overall, it is a better album: Come With Us is more diverse, but at the same...