34-473: My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) is the fifteenth studio album by breakcore artist Venetian Snares . The title is in reference not to an actual soundtrack but rather the soundtrack to Aaron Funk's "downfall". It is said to be a follow-up to the 2005 album Rossz Csillag Alatt Született , as hinted by the reappearing Hungarian song titles. Aaron was quoted as saying, "This album has nothing to do with dubstep and very little to do with breakcore ." It, like
68-446: A few producers primarily work in the style, it still has a sizable following among breakcore fans. Notable releases in this style include those by Aaron Spectre and Bong-Ra. The term "mashcore" was coined by English breakcore artist Shitmat to describe his music such as his track "There’s No Business Like Propa’ Rungleclotted Mashup Bizznizz". Mashcore primarily draws from the mashup genre of music and shows an irreverence towards
102-441: A new shape, adding in more elements of mashup and IDM to the hardcore sounds. Each of these labels began to draw in aspects of their own social and aesthetic scenes, allowing for an even broader definition of what was possible in the music. In Europe, the breakcore genre was solidified by raves and club events such as Belgium's Breakcore Gives Me Wood, featuring local acts such as UndaCova and Sickboy ; Breakcore A Go Go, in
136-497: A poignant aural mirage of a time when techno music was made for the popular vanguard rather than a connoisseurial elite, as it is today." Raggacore is a style of music derived from ragga jungle that somewhat predates breakcore, characterized by ragga and dancehall rhythms and vocals. Its roots can arguably be traced back to jungle producer Remarc, who was one of the first producers to mix ragga and dancehall vocals with chaotic and intricately rearranged break beats. While only
170-545: A stand-alone marketplace and music community...". Bandcamp's employees voted to form a union via the Office and Professional Employees International Union in March 2023. On September 28, 2023, Epic Games announced that it was laying off 870 people, roughly 16% of its workforce. As part of this, Bandcamp was sold to Songtradr , another music platform. According to an Epic Games spokesperson, Songtradr incrementally offered employment to
204-451: A ticketed live-streaming service for artists. The service is an integrated feature of the Bandcamp website. Fees on tickets were waived until March 31, 2021, and became 10% from then. Bandcamp provides vinyl pressing services for artists. After a 50-artist pilot in 2020, the company opened limited access to 10,000 artists in early 2021 with plans for further expansion. Their fans preorder
238-509: Is based in New York. Its managing editor was jj skolnik, a writer for Pitchfork , BuzzFeed and The New York Times , as well as former author of punk zines . They were made redundant in October 2023. Among Bandcamp Daily 's columnists have been writers of Wired , Vice , NPR Music , Pitchfork and Paste . On August 4, 2017, the staff of Bandcamp Daily donated all of
272-524: Is characterized by very complex and intricate breakbeats and a wide palette of sampling sources played at high tempos. As the early days of " hardcore techno " or just " hardcore " began to settle in Europe, breakcore as a genre began to take more concrete forms in other parts of the world. Inspired by new labels such as Addict, from Milwaukee, US; Peace Off from Rennes, France; Sonic Belligeranza from Bologna, Italy; and Planet Mu , from London, it began to take
306-418: Is the best example of a music genre whose development is intrinsically linked to online and peer-to-peer distribution. In the 2020s breakcore underwent a revival, bringing with it a noticeably different sound than the music produced in the 1990s and 2000s. According to Bandcamp Daily writer James Gui, 2020s breakcore is nostalgic, atmospheric, and sentimental, and grew out of the digital hardcore scene of
340-566: The NAACP Legal Defense Fund . Bandcamp gained much attention in July 2010 when Amanda Palmer , Low Places and Bedhed gave up their record labels and started selling albums on Bandcamp, using Twitter for promotion. Will Toledo initially released his 2011 studio album Twin Fantasy on Bandcamp. Several indie game developers published their game soundtracks on Bandcamp, including
374-561: The 2010s. It is accompanied by an aesthetic that draws from video games , anime , and internet culture with artists such as Machine Girl and Goreshit being influential to the revival's aesthetic and sound. The most defining characteristic of breakcore is the drum work, which is often based on the manipulation of the Amen break and other classic jungle and hip-hop breaks at high BPM . The techniques applied to achieve this differ from musician to musician, some preferring to cut up and rearrange
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#1732847493545408-766: The Bandcamp application or website only once or, by preserving the purchase voucher, unlimited times. They can also send purchased music as a gift, view lyrics, and save individual songs or albums to a wish list. Uploading music to Bandcamp is free. The company takes a 15% commission on sales made from their website, which drops to 10% after an artist's sales surpass US$ 5,000, plus payment processing fees. Downloads are offered in lossy formats MP3 ( LAME , 320k or V0), AAC and Ogg Vorbis , and in lossless formats FLAC , ALAC , WAV and AIFF . In addition to digital downloads artists may offer to sell their music on physical media such as CD or vinyl . Bandcamp's website offers users access to an artist's page, with information on
442-582: The Bandcamp staff. However, several employees were locked out of their systems and faced uncertainty over their jobs. After the acquisition was completed on October 16, Songtradr stated that only 60 of Bandcamp's previously 118 workers had been offered a contract. Songtradr fired most of the staff involved in forming the unionization, as well as the ones that were helping to negotiate fair terms. In an internal email, Songtradr's CEO, Paul Wiltshire, said that Bandcamp's financial state had "not been healthy" due to increased operating costs over steady revenues, despite
476-468: The Lime take another direction towards mash-up, happy hardcore , and rave to make a lighter, more humorous sound. The rise of Chiptune music has also blended with breakcore with artists such as Tarmvred . The UK free party scene has also expressed a large interest in producing and distributing its own takes on breakcore, with crews and labels such as Life4land, Hekate, Headfuk, and Bad Sekta helping to push
510-842: The Netherlands, which was run by FFF and Bong-Ra; as well as Anticartel, in Rennes , the seat of PeaceOff, and later, Wasted , in Berlin and Bangface in London. Breakcore has been subject to changing and branching. Many newer breakcore artists (such as Mochipet etc.) focus on melodic progressions and complex drum programming while other artists still focus on distorted hardcore breakbeats and dark-edged musical influences (such as heavy metal and industrial ). The artist Venetian Snares has produced breakcore blended with elements of classical music . Other artists such as Shitmat , Sickboy, DJ Scotch Egg , and Drop
544-450: The [breakcore] music combines rumbling bass lines, fidgety beats and grainy ragga vocals to create a home-listening surrogate for the ' bashment ' vibe of a Jamaican sound system party. Others within the breakcore genre, like Knifehandchop, Kid606 and Soundmurderer, hark back to rave's own early days, their music evoking the rowdy fervor of a time when huge crowds flailed their limbs to a barrage of abstract noise and convulsive rhythm. It's
578-409: The album it is said to follow, consists largely of classical compositions. However, unlike said album, it features very little in the way of drumbeats, instead focusing on an atmospheric sound made by the classical instruments. Breakcore Breakcore is a style and microgenre of electronic dance music that emerged from jungle , hardcore , and drum and bass in the mid-to-late 1990s. It
612-523: The artist, social media links, merchandising links and listing their available music. Artists can change the look of their page and customize its features. During the COVID-19 pandemic , in 2020 Bandcamp announced that they would be waiving their share of revenue and donating all sales to artists for 24 hours on March 20. They repeated the initiative in the following months and began calling these days "Bandcamp Fridays"; they are scheduled once every month and
646-657: The blueprint for much of breakcore's sound, a high-bpm mash-up of hyperkinetic, post-jungle breaks, feedback, noise, and Jamaican elements paired with a devil-may-care attitude towards sampling that pulls from the broadest musical spectrum of styles (hip-hop, rock, industrial, pop, and beyond)." At the same time, Bloody Fist Records based in Newcastle , Australia, released many records of hardcore / gabber , industrial , and noise . Artists signed to Bloody Fist in its lifetime include Syndicate, Xylocaine, Epsilon and Nasenbluten . Label founder Mark Newlands said, in 1997, "I think that
680-414: The breakcore sound. This label is also responsible for digital hardcore , a genre developed simultaneously to breakcore. The Alec Empire album The Destroyer is often noted as the first breakcore album. English producer Shoebill has noted that autism , and especially its interaction with gender identity , has influenced "almost everyone" they know in the breakcore scene. Vice magazine compared
714-411: The breaks, while others merely distort and loop breaks or apply various effects such as delay and chorus to alter the break's timbre. Melodically, there is nothing that defines breakcore. Classic rave sounds such as acid bass lines, Hoovers and Reese bass are common, but breakcore is mostly known for sampling sounds from all over the musical spectrum to accommodate the frantic and fast-paced nature of
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#1732847493545748-490: The company was sold to Songtradr in 2023. Bandcamp was founded in 2007 by Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, headquartered in Oakland, California , US. In 2010, the site enabled embedding in other websites and shared links on social media sites. As of August 2020 , half of Bandcamp's revenue was from sales for physical products. In November 2020, Bandcamp launched Bandcamp Live,
782-655: The creators of Aquaria , Bastion , Cuphead , Sanctum , Machinarium , Terraria , Plants vs. Zombies , Limbo , Super Meat Boy , To the Moon , YIIK: A Postmodern RPG , Fez , Minecraft , Undertale , Deltarune , and Stardew Valley . In December 2014, Bandcamp for Labels was launched. Popular independent labels such as Sub Pop , Fat Wreck Chords , Relapse Records and Epitaph Records launched their own Bandcamp pages. In November 2019, Peter Gabriel added his complete solo catalog to Bandcamp. On June 18, 2020, Björk published her discography on
816-485: The first "amenpunk" E.P. under his Drumcorps alias. The style originated around 2006, and is characterized by sampling of pop-punk and other upbeat styles of punk music. In London, DJ Scud co-founded Ambush Records in 1997 with fellow producer Aphasic to focus on more extreme noise-oriented hardcore drum and bass . Some artists released on Ambush are Christoph Fringeli, Slepcy, The Panacea , and Noize Creator. "Scud and Nomex tracks like 'Total Destruction' helped create
850-473: The genre to the types of music used during Guantanamo Bay interrogations, and has also stated that reizokore sounds like "a new genre of dubstep made with chainsaws and Ritalin". Bandcamp Daily Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California . Acquired by Epic Games in March 2022,
884-410: The idea that free or pirated music is worthless. Reizokore is a more hyper, " ADHD ", style of mashcore pioneered by Ukrainian artist Reizoko Cj. Dancecore is a subgenre of mashcore that is more dancefloor influenced, making use of "four on the floor" rhythms and gabber kicks, and sampling mainly from Eurobeat , '90s techno, and other dance music genres. Aaron Spectre is regarded to have made
918-622: The label as recognized globally for its contributions to the breakcore genre, and for spurring its 1990s development. The Bloody Fist sound became breakcore from what was the noise genre , with added elements of high beats per minute and "extreme", thick, low-fi textures". By way of example, Nasenbluten 's 1996 Fuck Anna Wood exemplified this style with controversial public affairs audio samples collaged into dialogue atop early hardcore beats. Formed in 1994, Digital Hardcore Recordings released music by artists such as Alec Empire , Shizuo, Atari Teenage Riot , EC8OR , and Bomb20, shaping
952-419: The platform. In December, UK label Warp joined Bandcamp; this made records by Hudson Mohawke , Aphex Twin , Kelela and other artists available on the platform. On October 21, 2021, Radiohead published their discography on the platform. In the summer of 2016, their editorial content was expanded by launching Bandcamp Daily , an online music publication about artists on the platform. The publication
986-448: The pressing rather than having the artist fund it upfront. Bandcamp lets artists set their own price. The company's two million vinyl sales in 2020 doubled that of 2019. Bandcamp was acquired by Epic Games on March 2, 2022. Epic said the platform "will play an important role in Epic's vision to build out a creator marketplace ecosystem...". Ethan Diamond said "Bandcamp will keep operating as
1020-520: The rhythm section. Around the turn of the century, more and more breakcore musicians began employing traditional synthesis techniques to compose elaborate melodies and harmonies. There are a growing number of musicians who make use of recorded live instrumentation in their music, such as Istari Lasterfahrer, Hecate , Benn Jordan , Ruby My Dear, Qüatros, Venetian Snares , Drumcorps , and Igorrr . According to Simon Reynolds of The New York Times , "purveyed by artists like DJ/Rupture and Teamshadetek,
1054-458: The scene and sound forward, as well as bringing over a number of international artists to play at their parties and club nights. Breakcore is steadily gaining in popularity, and aspiring artists are found scattered across the Internet. Sociologist Andrew Whelan notes that Venetian Snares has become "synonymous with breakcore such that alternative styles are being sidelined." He adds that breakcore
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1088-452: The site's continuous profitability. In response to the layoffs, users and artists of the platform expressed anxiety about its future. As of December 2023 , Songtradr had not formally recognized the Bandcamp union. Artists and labels upload music to Bandcamp and control how they sell it, setting their own prices, offering users the option to pay more, and selling merchandise. Users can download their purchases or stream their music on
1122-452: The uncomfortableness also comes from a reaction towards the mainstream and popular culture that's constantly shoved down our throats, that's forced on the people via television, radio, mass media, etc. I think that also fuels the fire and keeps the aggressiveness there and the uncomfortableness." Newlands described their music as products of " cut'n'paste mentality" and an industrial environment. In her Experimental Music , Gail Priest credits
1156-578: The website Is It Bandcamp Friday? was established to provide timing clarity to those outside the Pacific Time Zone . After raising more than $ 40 million for its musicians in 2020 through Bandcamp Fridays, the platform extended the program to four additional dates in 2021. In response to the protests that took place following the murder of George Floyd and other African Americans who had died from police violence, Bandcamp announced that for 24 hours on June 19, 2020 they would donate 100% of profits to
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