breakcore
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[edit]breakcore (uncountable)
- (music) A style of electronic music characterised by a high tempo, complex and intricate breakbeats, and a wide palette of samples from various sources, especially the "Amen break".
- 2008, SPIN, volume 24, number 2, page 93:
- The head-on collision between DJ Ricky Rabbit's fractured breakcore and MC Vulture Voltaire's fuming invective is a spectacle of almost physical impossibility, like trying to rap along to an earthquake while getting tased […]
- 2008, Marc Masters, Weasel Walter, Rob Young, No Wave:
- Where breakcore picks up on rave's daftness, dubstep fixates on its darkness, sometimes to a shlocky degree […]