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:: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 ::

Breakcore in China

Michael Ohlsson: Pop Will Eat Itself: China Breakcore
An interesting article on the start of a breakcore scene in China, which acknowledges that it is an imported genre, and hypothesises that it is going to explode.

"Breakcore music is like graffiti -- it will be influential and important -- but it can never be truly commodified, and therefore popular. ... In a world of mobile blogging, podcasting, hacking, and rapid file-sharing, any kid with a computer can remix, butcher, and do sonic graffiti to any popular music within minutes of downloading it -- and then upload it to share with millions around the world. How delightful it would be to destroy (eh, "improve") a new song by the Backstreet Boys, and post it for public consumption to an unknowing audience."
Although that seems to be blurring the lines between the common mash-up and breakcore as a genre in itself.

How big will it get? It defiantly is growing. The audience at gigs has been growing massively over the last six months to a year. I keep bumping into younger and younger kids getting involved in the scene, who say they make breakcore and then ask you if you saw the Snares gig a few months ago. "Yeah," I reply, "and I played a gig with him three years ago." Partly, this makes me feel old. Partly, I worry that our music is slipping away from us, to a new generation. Maybe that's a good thing; the new generation may push this into a new era.

Chatting with Jason Forrest and 1SpeedBike at the last Toxic Dancehall, it was suggested that what breakcore needs to push it into the mainstream is someway to allow it to be easily mixed with other genres. Perhaps by pushing breakcore to 260bpm it could be mixed with 130bmp house?

You can see our Japanese living Australian mate HARDoff (who is also currently working on a remix for us) along with some young Chinese blood in Beijing on the 25th. [Flyer]

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