碎拍Breakbeat

Breakbeat（也称Broken Beats）是对80年代后期的House（库房）加以采样和编排，将原先House的那种有规则的“咚咚咚”的鼓点声加以破碎化手法表现出来，并加以Sampling（采样）、Breaks（暂停）、Cuts（间断）等手法修饰。

而Break Beat则是此类的一个总称，之下以特征更分Big Beat，Nu Breaks，Drum’n’Bass，Brit Hop等等，在此介绍Breaks的范畴，也就是以Nu Breaks/Big Beat为主，BPM略低的一类，而Drum’n’Bass因形成一定气候，几乎脱离Broken Beat的范畴，成为一种新的单独类型

比起容易围栏，场景更集中在西伦敦-声音断断续续的节奏可以追溯到70年代的爵士乐-Funk和Dub Reggae，同时还包含80年代和90年代运动的病菌，例如房屋，电子乐，鼓乐等低音和现代R＆B。与酸性爵士乐的礼貌倾向不同（上世纪80年代和90年代的运动也融合了多种风格），残破的节拍只是将其灵感作为发声点，而且经常使用狂躁的，不连续的节拍结构，听起来比原来听起来更易发散和结结直截了当。

在许多曲目中，主要是女性的声乐演奏者，所有这些曲目大胆，明亮，并且在大多数情况下充满节奏感。键盘是另一个主要因素，通常会借鉴乔治·杜克和赫比·汉考克等人的暗示。在90年代后期发芽后，断裂的拍子在整个西伦敦迅速增长。制作人开始制作一些标签（2000 Black，Bitasweet，People，Co-Op，Motions，Motions，Main Squeeze），这些制作人通常使用多个别名。场景严重依赖于协作这一事实使得该样式的家谱更加难以绘制。此后，在其他几个国家/地区也建立了前哨基地，包括加拿大，日本，德国，奥地利，瑞士和意大利。

More a scene centered in West London than an easily fenced-in sound, broken beat looks as far back to '70s Jazz-Funk and Dub Reggae while also containing germs from '80s and '90s movements like house, techno, drum'n'bass, and contemporary R&B. Unlike the polite tendencies of acid jazz -- a movement of the '80s and '90s that also blended several styles -- broken beat takes its inspirations as mere launching points and often utilizes frenetic, syncopated beat structures that sound sputtery and stuttered more often than they sound straightforward.

Vocalists, predominantly female, feature in many of the tracks, all of which are bold, bright, and -- for the most part -- full of rhythmic tension. Keyboards are another major factor, often taking cues from the likes of George Duke andHerbie Hancock. Immediately after its late-'90s germination, broken beat underwent a fast growth throughout West London.

Several labels (2000 Black, Bitasweet, People, Co-Op, Laws of Motion, Main Squeeze) were started by producers -- producers who often worked under several aliases. The fact that the scene was heavily reliant upon collaborations made the style's family tree all the more difficult to diagram. Outposts have since developed in several other countries, including Canada, Japan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy.