Breakbeat

The first traces of breakbeat emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s when DJs from the U.S. started making use of drum breaks—mostly sampled bars from drum solos present in Funk and Soul records—as the rhythm of various Disco Rap productions and performances. Their use then became prevalent in various Hip Hop songs from the '80s, and so Electronic producers started adding these into their productions. This became prominent around the late 1980s, when breakbeat was established as an underground subgenre as non-hip hop acts began experimenting with drum breaks. With the development of Breakbeat Hardcore during the start of the 1990s, the usage of breakbeats in Electronic Dance Music became an essential rhythmic backdrop and later was used for the development of Jungle and many other styles.