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The 18 pages that link to Breakbeat, each with the reason it gives.

• Sampling (music)Broader topic: Breakbeats are among the most recognizable source materials in sampled music.

• Hip-hopRelated: Early DJs extended breaks so dancers could keep moving and MCs could address the crowd.

• Hip-hop musicRelated: Extended breaks became a key source of rhythm at early hip-hop parties.

• FunkRelated: Funk drum breaks became foundational source material for DJs and sample-based music.

• TurntablismRelated: Breaks supplied the short, percussive passages early DJs extended and reshaped.

• Hip-hop productionRelated: Hip-hop’s early party DJs extended breaks that later became a core production resource.

• DJ Kool HercRelated: Herc extended these passages so dancers could keep moving through a song.

• Grandmaster FlashRelated: Extending breaks was central to the dance-floor methods Flash developed.

• Four-on-the-floorCompared with: Breakbeats replace the pattern’s unbroken kick pulse with more varied accents.

• James BrownRelated: Brown’s drum breaks became foundational source material for early hip-hop.

• Hip-hop danceRelated: Breaking developed around dancers’ use of extended break sections in DJ sets.

• Afrika BambaataaNarrower topic: Bambaataa’s DJ roots grew from the breakbeat-centered practices of Bronx parties.

• BreakdancingRelated: Breaking’s timing and improvisation developed around the breaks dancers hear in music.

• New York hip-hopBroader topic: New York DJs lengthened these passages to give dancers more time and MCs a musical bed.

• Jungle musicNarrower topic: Jungle turns breakbeats into rapid, syncopated rhythms through editing and layering.

• Old-school hip-hopRelated: Extended breaks supplied the recurring dance rhythms that early DJs and MCs used.

• Drum and bassNarrower topic: Drum and bass developed by accelerating and reshaping sampled funk breaks.

• The ProdigyNarrower topic: Its syncopated drum patterns anchor many of The Prodigy’s tracks.