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brb

EDM / Dance

Breakbeat

Era
1989–present
Origin
London · LA
Student playlists
None yet

About this supergenre

Built from sampled funk breaks — looped, sliced, and rebuilt. The umbrella for big beat, breaks, and the broken-rhythm side of dance music.

Canonical reference: musicmap.info / brb

Inside breakbeat · 11 subgenre s on a mini-timeline

Each subgenre at its emergence year, oldest at top. This is what students curate playlists for — the granular level. Click any subgenre chip from the main map and you land on its row here.

  1. Electro / Electro-Funk

    1982

  2. Miami Bass

    1985

  3. Florida Breaks

    1988

  4. Ghettotech

    1990

  5. Trip-Hop

    1992

  6. Big Beat

    1995

  7. Nu-Skool Breaks

    1996

  8. Breakcore

    1996

  9. Tech Funk

    1998

  10. Glitch Hop

    2003

  11. Drumstep

    2008

Connective tissue · 3 link s

How breakbeat relates to the rest of the map. Click any genre to follow the line.

Primary lineage

Direct parents and direct children — the main line.

Other influences

Cousin genres and indirect influences that shaped this supergenre.

Student curations

No playlists for breakbeat yet.

This supergenre is waiting for a curator. If you're in MUSA 266 or MUSA 220 and this is your assignment, build a 5–10 track YouTube playlist and submit it through the course form.

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