- Supercharged Music’s Heavyweight Breaks series continues on with the label’s fine tradition of embracing the harder, darker and dirtier side of breaks. Stepping into the ring for the third round is label owner Skool Of Thought who straps on the gloves after providing the mix for the first volume.
Ever since their arrival on the scene, Irish breaks duo Splitloop have been making huge waves on labels such as Sinister, Sound Of Habib and their own Music Downstairs label. For Heavyweight Breaks 3 they’re responsible for the second album sampler featuring the lead off tune KFC - a quirky electro breaks tune featuring stabs aplenty and a dirty electro/punk bassline – and Hot Rock Boy on a massive rock/breaks crossover tip.
Christian J & Dylan Rhymes inject a little aggression into the mix with the growling basslines and massive synth hooks on Party People. Unlike Soul Of Man on their Y4K mix CD, Skool Of Thought has featured this tune with the party inciting hip hop sample in full swing. Bristol breaks producer 30Hz gets the growling bass lines happening on No Mans Land this time with a darker grimey edge.
Funky Town by Skool Of Thought brings funkier, electro breaks flavours to the mix and is one tune designed for the “party people” (hint, hint!). He then teams up with Ed Solo to deliver the bouncy ragga rhythms, booming melodic bass and crisp drum breaks on Hold Up.
The tear out style of breaks makes an appearance with Deep Impact’s Carpet Muncha which combines Plump style bleeps with a heavy metal bassline. DJ Quest’s Gravel Muncha turns up the aggression even more with a harder edged bassline, rolling tear out drums and a horn sample used in the breakdown to mess up heads. To end it all, SCAM offer up Put Up Your Hands - a big and uplifting ragga breaks tune featuring a ragga vocal which incites the crowd to say “Whoa” and features its own crowd sounds to help things along.
Breakbeat is certainly getting harder and heavier as it progresses. The fun party tunes featured in Heavyweight Breaks 3 would have been considered hard and heavy had this been released about 4 or 5 years ago. Volume 3 however has lost a little weight since the last volume mixed by Deep Impact, which featured a host of hard breaks tunes ranging from tear out to grimey breakstep. Still for those who can’t look past Supercharged Music’s contribution to the breaks scene and love the hard breaks no matter what, this is for you.