Breaks, help

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Breaks, help

Breaks, Im more a proggresive House, Tech house guy however I find myself becoming interested in breaks. I only have 4-5 tracks in my collection I class as breaks, and everytime I play it the missus loves it… so, im on a mission to collect some quality.

Problem, Ive been listening to a lot of the breaks on beatport and finding that im not liking 90% of it. Im not a fan of this grimy, machine, dubstep electro kinda out of space stuff… most of it sounds just a tad too uptempo for my tatse… Organic, is the word that springs to mind when i think of the breaks i like… sounds strange to use organic in relationship with EDM.

here are the tracks I have in my collection of breaks.

In and out of love - Armin van Buuren
Whos afraid of detroit - stanton warriors remix
Fer de lance - propper villains dub mix (found this gem amongst a lot of shit that was the southern fried compilation)
NYC beat _MSTRKRFT remix
Ghost feat. jes - toskin remix (this is about as grimy as I like it, IMO its not over the top)

As you can see I guess these are midtempo breaks…

Ill keep looking on beatport, but some ideas from you guys would be handy.

Cheers

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vandal - idoits and mad as hell are 2 oldie but goodies. his new stuff is cool to
meat katie - very techy sound
rennie pilgrim
future funk squad
lee combs
30Hz
some plump djs stuff might be up your street, doppler maybe?
elite force

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BradCee recommended some good stuff. Check out anything on the FingerLickin label, Soul of Man, DJ Decent, Koma & Bones, DJ Icey, Uberzone, Freestylers. All the previous I would classify “Middle School Breaks” others might call NuSchool Breaks. If you’re looking for old school breaks, then Afrika Bambataa, Egyptian Lover, Knights of the Turntable, LA Dreamteam.

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oh! lee combs remix of pray by plump djs/gary numan

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way out west
ils
some general midi

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it’s Lee Coombs with two o’s … not tryin to be a spelling gestapo but it’ll be easier to search for if you spell it right :wink:

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I don’t really have much of anything by the way of Breaks. That’ll change soon, thanks Brad and SirReal.

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and i did it twice :open_mouth: