Word: breakbeats
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...onto—a hook, a chorus, a person—-dance music simply exists, providing nothing other than its own pulse. Hordes of indignant listeners and curmudgeonly rock critics have rallied against the apparent coldness and artificiality of disco, as well as sonic offspring like house, techno, and breakbeat. Yet dance music has always had a unique, innate “soul” of its own. The humanity, or relevance, that it’s often accused of lacking is not so much expressed in lyrics or notes, but instead lies in the exuberant rhythms and beauty...
...minimalist proclivities. The set was generally straightforward and built around the usual throbbing 4/4 rhythms (Maas had promised earlier that evening that his set would be "a bit rougher" than his in-store performance at Allston's Sound Factory), but he threw in some overt nods to trance and breakbeat came as the set wound down. In fact, some of his final offerings seemed more like indications of the imminent end than attempts to close with a bang. But by the time 2 a.m. rolled around, his continued good reputation was already beyond secured...
...album's first disc features the Fatboy Slim mix. True to the big beat sound, the disc kicks off with Walter Wanderley's organ tune "Summer Samba." Laid over that kitschy melody is the weirdest breakbeat you'll ever hear, something like a mixture of a saw and a mattress spring. Fatboy Slim's mix features remixes of songs by famous artists like the Chemical Brothers ("The Private Psychedelic Reel"), Underworld ("Born Slippy") and Art of Noise ("Metaforce"), but to buy the album just for these would be a terrible mistake. To appreciate the mix, you really need to hear...
...crowd, and the reception when the Armada took to the Karma stage was indulgent. Groove Armada lived up to expectations, opening their eclectic set with some Latin-influenced house tunes (including a tasty remix of Basement Jaxx's "Jump and Shout") before moving on to throw on some breakbeat tunes, some funk and even an old-school track from the Sugarhill Gang. True to the anything-with-a-beat-goes spirit of the night, Cato and Findlay goofed around on the live bass guitar and keyboards and added cheeky touches of humor (a sample of a woman moaning "Oh Groove...
...Beat is perhaps the most rock-oriented form of dance music and thus has had the biggest crossover success. It borrows the percussion style of breakbeat (common samples include the drums in James Brown's "Funky Drummer" and those in Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache"), and throws in the squelch of the Roland 303 synthesiser, rock guitars, and whatever else fits. Fatboy Slim's You've Come a Long Way, Baby or the Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole are both fairly well-known albums, but try the import-only Fatboy Slim mix album On the Floor at the Boutique...