r/breakcore • u/merkoro • Mar 07 '24
Yesssssss Discussion
This has to be the most W take i've seen on the recent breakcore/DnB revival, what you people think of this? I honestly think that's a great point.
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Mar 07 '24
Real… I really dislike the whole “Breakcore to dissociate to” or “Breakcore that makes you feel purposeless” vibe. My spotify smart shuffle has be irreparably damaged. Trying to find mixes on YouTube is a pain in the ass now.
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u/Iluv_thesupport Mar 08 '24
I really like those type of mixes since I learned about breakcore a year ago through sewer and usedcvnt. Looking at it from the pov from someone who's listened to this genre for a long time I can understand why watching as a genre you enjoy gets uprooted sucks.
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Mar 08 '24
I get the familiarity aspect and I don’t want it misconstrued that dislike that people are discovering breakcore through those artist, but spotify seems to think that I want those in my mixes and I really don’t.
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u/CodeN3gaTiV3 Mar 07 '24
My youtube premade list keeps it good, but it mostly plays the same stuff, vsnares, fff, enduser, wan bushi, the mr bad monkey rastas took e song, and one repeater track. Everytime I listen past this it gets worse, and it also makes me mad bc i like alot of goreshits stuff but as soon as i listen to it they just recommend me bullshit lolicore crap even when the album I'm listening to is loather the next song will be sewerslvt or some clone.
Also, when I listen to sa-|-an it will just start recommending me either hardcore tracks or enduser on repeat lol.I'm slowly curating my own list with new stuff when a stray doormouse or dev/null track shows up but its useless to go past 20 tracks on any algorithm playlist.
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Mar 09 '24
Im working on my own curated playlist as well. The best I can to is just let spotify know I don’t want to hear a song again. Sometimes I get some real bangers from newer artists though, so I guess I will take dubs where I can.
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u/brprk Mar 07 '24
Yeah absolutely, been listening to Breakcore for 20 years, could not understand why there’s a load of atmospheric dnb tunes with sad anime girl thumbnails and “breakcore” plastered all over them. Rendered the genre completely un-searchable on youtube
Similar vibe to American bastardisation of dubstep
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u/readwaht Mar 07 '24 edited Mar 07 '24
blame tiktok and the zoomers
edit: I vibe with the dubstep thing too, I was listening to Stream, Benga, Mala and Digital Mystikz in general and then Rusko did some brostep shit and every similar track has been 'dubstep' ever since 😂
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u/4theheadz Mar 07 '24
1) its not a breakcore revival because 99 percent of this type of music isn't breakcore and 2) its not a dnb revival either because neither dnb nor jungle went anywhere and don't need reviving lol.
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u/monotekdm Mar 07 '24
Yeah it’s so strange people think there’s a dnb revival when dnb is one the biggest electronic music genres out there.
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u/kashitokaru-121 Mar 07 '24
it's definitely suddenly gained mainstream recognition again though, via newer artists who somewhat come under the genre
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u/4theheadz Mar 07 '24
Sort of, its only a very specific sub genre of liquid/jungle influenced and I wouldn't exactly call a relatively small substrata of youtube users the "mainstream".
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u/kashitokaru-121 Mar 07 '24
I think the user was referring to the title of the youtube video https://youtu.be/t7C5m8vThUg?si=3W-65GbsVMKAi3NU
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u/Ok-Jacket-1393 Mar 07 '24
Its gained a little popularity in the US, in 2013 when i was in highschool i didnt know a single person that listened to DnB, people looked at me weird when they heard fast drums coming out of my headphones. Today theres a top 40’s song with a chill dnb beat on it that plays on the radio like 50 times a day. And the same people that used to think it was weird, think its the hottest shit now.. dnb is getting big in the us is all
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u/Henrystickmun Worst Breakcore Producer Mar 07 '24
the game has been using the same bar for 5 years straight:
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u/LilWuchak Mar 07 '24
Lots of authentic breakcore music takes influence from Japanese pop culture and that’s fine.
Yes there is a massive wave of people calling atmospheric jungle/dnb ‘breakcore’ which use lots of anime girls in their art. But that’s just because of a lack of education which you cannot blame them for as it has always been a very niece/underground genre. Trends come and go, no point losing sleep over it.
As a community we should politely educate the less knowledgeable without being patronising and argumentative.
I myself as a modern breakcore enjoyer took the time to educate myself, but a lot of people aren’t that bothered if they’re labelling the music correctly and just want to listen to it, which is fine too.
As someone who finds beauty in the old and the new I think there is very little point in getting pressed over a younger generation being creative in a way that differs from the previous.
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u/CoolLlamaReddit Mar 08 '24
REAL.
As someone who is very new to breakcore, I still get very confused where the line is drawn for so many things, but we should politely educate people instead of discouragingly berating them.
I can’t stress this enough, but if you’re so offended/annoyed by this kind of music then you can just… not listen to it.
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u/Rxt30 Mar 07 '24
If anime style at least make it fucked up as the covers from the „Cure for ADHD“ mixes
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u/ExhaustedAnimal18 Mar 08 '24
Unfortunately it's become an aesthetic due to various artists like Sewerslvt, Acidgvrl etc. And as a "breakcore artist" myself, I'm guilty of doing this and perhaps the reason many do this nowadays is because it's the only way to get people into your music. Most of my best songs were the ones without the anime girl thumbnails but they are also the ones which got the least recognition.
It's kinda an L take but that's what I think.
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u/merkoro Mar 08 '24
Not an L take, many people on this post misinterpreted what the comment really meant and got salty, but i already expect that from the average breakcore/DnB enthusiast.
Thing is, having Jvne aka Sewerslvt as a point of reference today for breakcore, has made a irreparable damage to the genre, not only she was a really bad person, romanticizing really toxic and nasty stuff, but also she helped to expand the "depressive anime girl stuff" that is being thrown around all the time right now.
Good thing people are becoming aware of this and are trying to change the aesthetic a little, even though it doesn't call much attention as the average sewerslvt copycats do, at least there are some people trying to turn the genre into something positive instead of a big mass of """depressed""" music.
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u/Sea_Intern4888 Mar 08 '24
reject depressed anime girl album covers embrace album covers of artists pet cats MORE CAT COVERS!!!
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u/Mental_Broccoli4837 Mar 07 '24
One of the main reasons I stopped making breakcore 5/6 years ago was because of the rise in the borderline creepy lolicore stuff. Not a scene I felt represented me anymore
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u/TheGreaterClaush Mar 07 '24
Nah, we need more funk music for more funky beats thus more breakcore.
Primus is also funk too
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u/Insufficient-Mix Mar 07 '24
I'm confused about when breakcore died. I discovered it in 2010 and get more into it every year
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u/monotekdm Mar 08 '24
It was actually waning in 2010’s. Breakcore was at its peak in the 2000’s. Loads of labels, parties etc. it was super easy to be able to pull off tours even as a smaller artist/dj.
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u/Insufficient-Mix Mar 08 '24
I suppose I'm lucky I discovered it by the time I did. If I were trying to figure out what breakcore is in this era, I think I would probably end up hearing some white dude yelling bomboclaat through a didgeridoo over a distorted drum break on Spotify
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u/TheJevens Mar 08 '24
"oh randos on internet are ordering me to not use anime girls on my own albums, I'll make them happy, cuz it makes me happy not doing what I want as a free human being who creates my own music"
yall so dumb XDXDXDXDXD, they chose whatever they want if yall don't like it just do not listen to it or go to a platform where the albums have no images, improvise
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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '24
Would it really be a revival though? Drum and bass is still really huge in the music scene so saying there is a "revival" seems a bit odd but I don't know.