A Beginner’s Guide to Jungle Breakbeats

A beginner’s guide to jungle breakbeats. I kick off with some context and history, then cover how to chop and process breaks in your DAW. Check out my DnB music on Spotify! Check out my latest happy hardcore EP: Chapter markers: 00:00 Intro 00:33 Chapter 1: What are breakbeats? 03:31 Chapter 2: UK breakbeat music 10:06 Chapter 3: Why do breakbeats sound good? 14:29 Chapter 4: Where do I get jungle breaks? 17:31 Chapter 5: Old school breakbeat technique 21:10 Chapter 6: Automatic slicing 24:13 Chapter 7: Contemporary technique 29:49 Chapter 8: Breakbeat processing tips If you’d like to use my Live slicing preset you can find it here: This should be placed in your Ableton user library in the Defaults/Slicing folder. Tunes mentioned: The Winstons - Amen Brother Bobby Byrd - Hot Pants (I’m Coming) Lyn Collins - Think (About It) Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks Tommy Roe - Sweet Pea Mantronix - King of the Beats MC Duke - I’m Riffin’ Hardnoise - Untitled Shut Up & Dance - This Town Needs A Sheriff The Scientist - Exorcist Shut Up and Dance - Derek Went Mad Low Noise Block – Rave In The Bedroom Lennie D’Ice - We Are I.E. The Prodigy - Charly Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon The Stone Roses - Fools Gold Awesome 3 - Don’t Go RatPack - Searchin’ For My Rizla Big Daddy Kane - Raw DJ Red Alert & Mike Slammer - In Effect Q-Project -Champion Sound (Alliance Remix) Shut up and Dance - Raving I’m Raving Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis DJ Crystl - Meditation Deep Blue - The Helicopter Tune LTJ Bukem - Music Omni Trio - Renegade Snares Engineers Without Fears - Rhythm Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP) DJ Krome & Mr Time - The Licence Model 500 - The Flow (Alex Reece Remix) Alex Reece - Pulp Fiction Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing DJ Trace - Mutant Revisited Codename John - The Warning Boymerang - Soul Beat Runna D’Cruze - Watch Out Mark from Solardo talks about sampling the break from “Tribesmen“: Software mentioned: Ableton Live Akaizer ReCycle Eventide Audio H3000 Factory Oeksound Soothe 2 Inphonik RX950 D16 Group Decimort 2 Airwindows iZotope Neutron 3 FabFilter Jungle photo by Chris Abney on Unsplash: @chrisabney