Breakbeat Samples

Whether you're chopping up a raw funk break for your hip hop beat or layering rolling drum loops into your jungle track, breakbeat samples are the source.Breakbeat traces its roots back to the early 1970s where DJs like Kool Herc began isolating and looping the percussive breakdown sections of funk or soul records at block parties in the Bronx, forming the foundation of hip hop in the process. This simple idea that the drum breakdown was the most powerful moment in any record quickly rippled outward. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, UK producers were spinning breakbeats into the frantic energy of jungle and drum & bass. Iconic breaks became the most sampled drum loops in history and their sonic fingerprints now span generations of music production.