The use of broken loops in breakbeat music
The popular breakbeat song of the 1920's the Charleston along with the ever growing Jazz and swing bands, breakbeat grew into a well-used technique to create original and uplifting music with the beat being broken allowing the drum loops to occur during the break in the music.Hip Hop turntablist and DJ Kool Herc, began using several funk breaks in his early mixes of the 1980’s, with several irregular drum patterns from music artists songs such as The Winston’s Amen Brother and James Brown’s song Funky Drummer which formed the hip hop rhythm base for many of his mixes
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