Breaks

I've been waiting for someone to post about this --> I'm still undecided about what the general consensus is on these boards.

In my case, I've been listening to breaks for a long time now (being that there are quite a few breaks DJ who play on my site,) but I've only jumped on the bangwagon in relation to playing breaks in the last six months and solely concentrating on it in the last two.

In relation to the funky house backroom comment -- if it's appropriate, you can have both styles complementing each other nicely I find.

yeah i'm guilty, ive been listening to prog breaks and shit for ages, but only started buying breaks tunes recently, as i was at uni and couldn't really afford to buy the tunes, i'll buy new stuff now and play it just to myslef really and shit.

spose i could be guilty of the bandwagon, but its not my main style, that still will be nrg.

I decidede to change styles, perhaps it was a case of the Jon Daniels-itis ...

But being serious for a moment. I still love my trance / hard dance, just need a bit of a change for a while and breaks was there.

I look at it this way --

Trance :: get munted all night and have a fucking ball!

Breaks :: Chill out after the big night with a beer in one hand, record in the other, mixing under the sun!

Of course, this is not to say I can't enjoy breaks when I'm out getting munted!

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Not at breaks events though, she's been running her own back room recently with her playing breaks, but she has NOT been playing at proper breaks nights - festivals are now booking her over established breaks DJs because she'll pull a crowd and she has big knockers - at DV the crowd totally changed when she came on to play, total exodus of those listening to Aquasky and a huge influx of people who obviously have no idea

Poor

Yup, she has indeed.

Jon - I understand what your saying about Lashes. But you really can't be shocked when one style of music suddenly starts to become more popular! Trance/HH/HT/Garage - They've all done it, just seems to be the turn of breaks.

I'm the same as Clay.. I've been listening to breaks for years,  just couldn't afford to buy any (You can thank the shit HH Hoover revolution for freeing up some capital) Now I'm playing more breaks sets than anything else - lol!

Viva la revolution! 

true

but you still sound like a kid who doesn't want to share his toys

I must say there was a big movement for hardstyle in the Sydney scene. But it's also becoming quite a trend to get sick of it... The sonds of uplifting trance and tech are really being pushed in the last few months.

I'm still loving the breaks though!

 I'm not a .."keen BT breaks fan" but i downloaded it a few days ago, was well good had it on repeat when I first dled it lol and I'd never really listened to any before then

I had decided to draw the line at breaks ages ago, (more an expense thing than anything) but was going thru a mate's tunes he was selling and came across a few choice breaks, bought em for fuckall, and discovered I love mixing breaks!  Great fun!  I prolly won't ever market myself as a breaks DJ, but now just buy the odd one or two if I really like em, and have fun mixing em!

Ironically, I am ATM listening to a mixxy I did a few weeks ago which goes from piano house to breaks to DnB .... am listening to the breaks as I type....

I don't really like this bandwagon jumping tho, one of the reasons I wouldn't market myself as a breaks DJ is that there are so many shit hot breaks jox out there, and it is they who should be getting the exposure  whereas I only play about with them really

ever heard fabio play a breaks set? legend!

btw, i feel that the whole breaks thing should collapse and die.

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