> From: Eric Hill <ehill@best.com>
>
> Breakbeats came from jazz, where at some point in a song, the rest of the
> band would take a break and the drummer would play on without them. Hip-hop
> sampled these to make their loops and grooves. Break dancing came from these
> parts as well, because you "break" on the break. Jungle takes hip-hop and
> applies the Cubase sequencing software (from techno, btw) to it.
i'm not sure it's accurate to say that cubase is ``from techno'' -- it's
probably used to create techno, but then it's also used to create many other
styles; further, i'm sure that many other similar pieces of software are
also used to create techno. (i'm feeling pedantic.)
-- richard
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