3. Breakcore

This style is extremely crazy. It’s an electronic dance music subgenre, inspired by hardcore, jungle and industrial electronic music, which uses a large variety of samples, high tempos and heavy kick drums and breaks. One of the most notable artists of this genre is Igorrr, or Gautiere Serre, a French musician which combines elements of baroque, death metal and hip hop in his music, making it hard to classify him as only a breakcore musician:

A more classic example of breakcore comes however from Alec Empire, a german musician which started his DJ-ing career in the 90’s, both solo and as part of the Atari Teenage Riot, which had the purpose of opposing the Neo-Nazi subculture formed at that time in Germany. Alec would often use in his solo pieces samples of 60’s and 70’s funk, which is mainly a black style of music in order to express the same disdain towards that kind of ideology:

Pfew, a bit of history up there. Our breakcore story continues with Venetian Snares, a Canadian electronic musician which gracefully constructs his breakcore music using many symphonical music elements and beats from more harcore electronic genres (splittercore, speedcore):

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