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Broken beat (sometimes referred to as "bruk") is an electronic dance music genre characterized by syncopated beats and tense rhythms, including staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps. It has been heavily influenced by styles such as jazz-funk and R&B. [1]
- Coop Nights
- Fabriclive 12 – Bugz in The Attic, 2003
- Cousin Cockroach – This Ain’T Tom N’ Jerry, 2002
- Kaidi Tatham & Dego – Got Me Puzzled, 2003
The physical hub around which the broken beat scene revolved was CoOp, a club night started by IG Culture, Dego, Demus and Phil Asher, initially at the Velvet Rooms before moving to the iconic Plastic People in Shoreditch. Like so many genres, the golden age of broken beat was relatively short-lived, although that’s not to say that it necessarily p...
Broken beat was never really an album genre, with the focus much more on club-friendly tracks rather than full-length releases. If you’re looking for a bigger fix, a good starting point is the 12th instalment of London superclub Fabric’s open-minded mix series, FabricLive. Broken beat supergroup Bugz In The Attic highlight the eclecticism of the sc...
An alias of Dennis McFarlane, best known as Dego, founder member of hugely influential London group 4hero, this 2002 release was a CoOp favourite at the time but reached a bigger audience thanks to a 2014 rerelease on Berceuse Heroique. A swaggering 125bpm classic with vicious sub-bass, laser zaps and a wildly skittering rhythm, This Ain’t Tom N’ J...
Yet another Dego production, with Kaidi Tatham - a hugely prolific multi-instrumentalist whose mark is all over broken beat - taking centre stage with a sublime jazz-funk keyboard performance over a shuffling, lolloping beat. Five minutes of dancefloor heat that showcases the delicate touch of the genre’s finest moments.
- Future Music
- Cold Mission. ‘Drug Store Rude Bwoy’ (Nu-Era Remix) (Reinforced 12″, 1996) 4hero, aka Dego and Marc Mac, have laid the foundations of so many important genres that it almost boggles the mind.
- Misa Negra. ‘Spiritual Vibes’ (People 12″, 1998) When this dropped in September 1998 it’s doubtful that many stood up and took notice. ‘ Spiritual Vibes’ is a humble slice of what the B-side describes as ‘Afro Boogie House’, presumably because no better descriptive genre terms had been coined at this point.
- Neon Phusion. The Future Ain’t The Same (As It Used 2 B) (Laws Of Motion LP, 1999) Neon Phusion are Alex Phountzi, Kaidi Tatham and Orin Walters. The Future… is an early broken album with a live mood, doubtlessly the result of many blazed jam sessions.
- Various Artists. Cooperation Vol. 1. (Cooperation Recordings 2X12″, 2000) This is an excellent compilation of tracks from the scene at the time with a number of exclusive beats on it.
Jul 24, 2023 · Once named the “UK’s Herbie Hancock” by BBC Radio DJ Benji B, Tatham had the jazz licks to offset the rawness of broken beat for scene-defining records under names like Misa Negra, New Sector Movements and Likwid Biskit.
Unlike House Music, there is no staple “sound”, but at its most basic level, Broken Beat consists of stuttered, “staccato” or “offbeat” (hence the term “broken”) rhythms, and the rhythms can be drawn from influences as diverse as house, hip-hop, soul, reggae, jazz, drum and bass, funk, Latin and Afro-beat.
Broken beat is an electronic music genre which can be characterized by syncopated rhythm typically in 4/4 metre, with staggered or punctuated snare beats and/or hand claps. It first appeared in the 1990s and was pioneered by IG Culture .
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Apr 13, 2021 · The music was broken beat and the club CoOp, a dark, steamy, and intense party that became the scene’s spiritual home. Born in West London in the mid- to late ’90s, broken beat (aka bruk) was created by a community of producers with their roots in a variety of London’s club scenes.
