Best of Breakbeat

The breakbeat style celebrates percussive power and slinky grooves, and it's also a crucial link between golden-era hardcore rave and 21st-century bass music. You can hear echoes of ragga-jungle in Rennie Pilgrem's “Soundbwoy Kingpin”, while Buckfunk 3000's ”Jump” taps a classic electro cadence and the gnarled bass of Freq Nasty's “Amped” anticipates dubstep's low-end throb.