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Joining the Dots #2: Hard to the Core: Big Beats & Breakbeats
This second instalment in my attempt to map out the musicology of current popular genres will focus on that big, bouncin’, block-rockin’ thing they call Breakbeat, or as some like to call it, simply Breaks. Originating from early Rave into Hardcore before fragmenting into numerous styles, the dance music genre known as Breakbeat is huge [...]
Joining the Dots #1: Nu Jazz
This is part one in a series of articles & podcasts by London journalist, radio DJ and presenter Nat Illumine, exploring subgenres which have developed in British electronic music. More info & links on the series here.
“Hip Hop, House and ALL THAT JAZZ!”
The rate that modern music genres evolve is quite astonishing, particularly in [...]



