Beats are all around us. Almost all music begins with a beat and as such it’s a musical term rather than a genre. But the term is widely associated with a style whose rhythmic basis is constructed with drum loops and breaks which are usually sampled from Soul or Funk tracks at a slower tempo between 80-110 bmp.
Nearly all hip-hop and down-tempo music falls into that category. Also a huge number of slower electronica tracks follow the same or similar patterns. The rise of digital sound processing has also brought about different and complex techniques in beat-making. I tried to bring together various examples from old school groovy breaks to abstract beats with hip-hop vocals for this podcast. Let the beat go on!
S.O.S. Podcast 10 ‘Beats United’
Tracklist
1. Wagon Christ - Ain’t He Heavy, He’s my Brother - Ninja Tune
2. Fujimoto Tetsuro - Avoyager - Art Union
3. Versatell - Gamble - Citywurl
4. Harvey Lindo - Miller’s Latice - Compost Records
5. Swell Session - A Heart To Cover - Freerange Records
6. Creative Swing Alliance - Saturday - Bonzzaj Recordings
7. Kaman Leung - As Hope Fades - z5 Records
8. AmmonContact - We The Continuum - Plug Research
9. Souleance - Manana - First Word Records
10. Jimmy Edgar - No Static - Warp Records
11. Cappablack - Components & Variables - ~scape
12. Alix Perez - Intersections - Shogun Audio
13. Nochexxx - Smashing Your System - Werk Discs
14. Metamatics - Pro Leash Crease (Rewired by Ilkae) - Hydrogen Dukebox
15. Shlohmo - Seriously - Friends Of Friends
