Our second label spotlight is a new Canadian breakbeat label hailing from Calgary, Alberta.

Breakz R Boss Records is a New Digital Label coming out of Western Canada which is owned and operated by Bass Charger and the Breakz R Boss Crew. You can expect to hear the best, fresh and newest sounds from Canadians Nuskool, Tech, Tearout, Funky, & Electro Breakz. Bassline, Fidget & Electro 4×4 styles, DubStep & DNB styles too.

The good folks at Break R Boss have provided us with a FREE TRACK for you to pump right here:

Bass Dreamers – Can I Get Down (Original-Mix)

Breakz R Boss 2010 Release Schedule

(BRB-D01) Somsay – Government Lies Ft Ric Rags + Remixes by Mr. Bassline Junk-E & Dreamthief
(BRB-D02) Scratche – Good Timing + Remixes by Metachemical, Dave Dialect & Steve Velocity
(BRB-D03) vA – Canadian Breakbeats V.1
(BRB-D04) ViperCorps – ViperFunk Ft. JPrime + Remixes Scratche + Dope Tito
(BRB-D05) Bass Dreamers Remixes by Dee Bass, MistR Wolf, Mctwist, Jonny Sequence

http://www.myspace.com/breakzrbossrecords
http://soundcloud.com/breakzrbossrecords
http://twitter.com/breakzrbossrecs
http://breakzrbossrecords.blogspot.com/
http://www.breakbeat.ca/

Out first Label Spotlight features the Breakbeat goodness that is Lucky Break Recordings. In their own words:

Lucky Break was established in 2004 by Stuttgarts breakbeat djs Jay Vee & Piwi. It started as a monthly event series @ Cine Colibri (a former cinema converted into a club).

Beginning on Thursdays, the 2nd season made it to the weekend and until the club was closed for another fancy shopping center end of 2007, we hosted artists like Shut Up And Dance, Ed Solo, Altern 8, Circuit Breaker, Baobinga, Flore, and many more.

After a short period of time Lucky Break moved on to Club Synchron for some selected events and from June 2009 the new home of Lucky Break will be Club Lehmann (Lucky Break Parties will take place every other month).

In 2005 Jay Vee & Piwi started a weekly radio show on dnbradio.net, which is constantly gaining more attention (especially the “best of breaks” specials once a year).
In 2008 the concept of Lucky Break was extended and Lucky Break Recordings was established in order to push forward good breakbeat music.

Lucky Break has placed themselves in the game with a number of releases to date – many of which are available through Beatport.com
LBR007 (May10):
DJ Mutiny – Tell U Something
featuring
Afghan Headspin Rmx
Jack Stat Rmx
and additional digital-only goodies:
Spyke Rmx

LBR006 (Fabruary10):
Jack Stat ft Liz Melody – Chemistry
featuring
Maelstrom Rmx
and additional digital-only goodies:
Maelstrom Radio Mix
Jack Stat DnB Edit
Autodidakt Rmx

LBR005 (November09):
Vipercorps – Overclocked
featuring
I.D. Rmx
and additional digital-only goodies:
T.R.O. Rmx
Jack Stat Rmx
LBR004 (September09):
Jack Stat – Bombaman
featuring
Shut Up And Dance Hallelujay Mix
and additional digital-only goodies:
Break The Box – The Hell (Jack Stat Rmx)
B-Phreak – Firecrack (Jack Stat Rmx)

LBR003 (June09):
B-Phreak – Firecrack
featuring remix by
Plaza de Funk
LBR002 (Apr.09):
Jack Stat – The Spirit
featuring remix by
DJ Fixx
LBR001 (Feb.09):
Break The Box – The Hell listen
featuring remix by
Ninelives The Cat

…Just got a bit fatter. I would like to keep this breakbeat blog as up to date as possible, and will try and carry over all the breakbeat and hip hop material from the previous site.

In the meanwhile, here is a blog post about breakbeat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakbeat

I figured if this is a breakbeat blog, I might as well provide a link to a decent definition of breaks. It seems to me that alot of people ended up into breaks from the rave culture avenue. Personally, I was always a fan of faster hip hop tracks, I just loved the ‘hype’ ness of the beats behind them. When I first heard some proper nuskool breaks, I felt like it had just taken that fast hip hop beat to a whole new level.

Nowadays when I listen to music I hear elements of breaks in alot of different places: salsa, plenty of Latin music, indie tracks, etc, and it’s really opened the door to some genres I would never thought I would be interested in. Old funk for instance.

I would be interested to hear other people’s experiences getting introduced to breaks. Feel free to drop a comment on how you got into it – I’d love to hear

Here’s a selection of rap tracks….I wanted to do a hiphop mix every once a year or so for fun, so here’s a new one.

My general rules for the SupaRapMix series is, no rehearsing mixes, and do one a year. That’s about it – I like the whole one mix idea…though to be honest the tracklist changed 2343 times over the year

right click save as – SupaRapMix II

Here is an archived set from my breakbeat radio show on nsbradio

Canadian Back Breakin 12-12-2008

Tracklist:

PMT – The Word
Cedric Benoit – Fat Mama
Chemical Brothers – Base 6 vs Roxanne Shante Rock Me (jprime scratchapella)
Steelzawheels – Discotron (Drummatic Twins rmx)
Stanton Warriors – Club Action
Soul of Man – The Drum (GrooveDiggerz rmx)
All good funk Alliance – on the Prowl
NineLivesTheCat – Funk Wire
Chemical brothers – Morning Lemon
Easy-e – No more Questions.
Freshco and Miz – We Don’t Play
DJ Mutiny – Soul Runner (SuperstyleDeluxe mix) vs Dizzee – Stand Up Tall
JMekka – No No (Digital Base Remix)
The BPA – Toe Jam (Stanton Warriors rmx)
Robosapiens – Infected
General Midi – Nuone / We Want Your Soul
Nick Thayer – Keep it locked
Vital Substance – Leroy House rmx / M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Deekline & Polo – Touch it Beats (ft Busta)
Beat Assassins – Bebop Aloola
Unknown White Label – unknown
Marc Adamo – Krakupz
Plump DJ’s – Rocket Soul

Another scorching set from my internet breakbeat radio show on the award winning nsbradio

Canadian Back Breakin 06-03-2009

Tracklist:

Back Breakin intro
Windows XP remix
ZTrip – Breakfast Club
MarksSlideSquad – Gimme da Gold rmx
Gang Starr – The Militia
FK5 & Krafty – Radio Free DC
Myagi – Heads n Tails (iLL Gates rmx)
Chemical Brothers – Morning Lemon
Firearm – Volatile
White Label
White Label
Tittsworth – WTF (Beat Assassins rmx)
B-Phreak – Firecrack
JHZ & Hyper – Pitch Bitch
Kickflip – Freaky Funky Nasty
Trona – Lights go Out (Cirrus rmx)
Uberzone & Rennie Pilgrem – Cous Cous (Superstyledeluxe rmx) vs Dizzee
Tipper – Re Am I
Future Funk Squad – Sorcerary (Soteg rmx)
Lawgiverz vs AntiDwarf – Dubble Buggy
Soteg – Form of Worship
Marc Adamo – Krakupz
Rektchordz – Left Behind (Beta)
Vital Substance – Crowd Control vs Yo! Majesty
Circuitbreaker – Left Hook (Superstyledeluxe rmx)
Bitrok – Groovin (Drummattic Twins)
Death in Vegas – Dirt
DJ Rectangle – Battle Break
Amon Tobin (acapella)
Betty Rebel – Mana & Me
Super Mario Brothers intsra.
J-Live – Wax Paper
Gang Starr – Step in the Arena
Heiroglyphics – Soweto
Ugly Duckling – Pass it on