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As the acid house movement started to phase itself out and DJs started to fuse hip-house and homegrown breaks into their sets, producers started to experiment with breakbeats and sub bass, with UK sounds emerging!
There was a common trend in ’89 to create home made ‘off-beat’ drum patterns that soon gave way to full incorporation of sampled breakbeats. This in turn started to be combined with a darker, edgier style of sound choice which eventually started to become ‘hardcore rave’, a UK grown sound all of its own but made up of a mix of records from all over Europe and the USA. Careful selection by the DJs is what created the UK rave sound.
Full Kudos must be given to On Top Records out of Miami, Florida for laying down on vinyl the very first seeds of the UK hardcore movement, bought to these shores by NYC DJ Frankie Bones. What? Yep! The research looks credible and until we find out any variation on the history, this is what we’re sticking with. Read on for more info. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock must also get a mention here, for the tracks included in our Breakbeat Origin sections. Hip hop hugely influenced and encouraged UK producers of the era to experiment with breaks.
We’ve gone for 25 tunes in this list, as breakbeat hardcore tracks were hard to come by in 1989, but please keep popping back as we discover more music!