Future Funk Squad:  long live breaks….

Future Funk Squad:  long live breaks….

30 January, 2008 | 10.32PM

• Section: Music News Topics: Beatport Blog
• Written by: GirlSonic

Breakbeat is my favorite electronic genre.  So it is a bit dismaying to read here and there that breakbeat is getting stale, that it has not evolved.  Or that it has evolved so thoroughly into other styles that it has effectively brought about its own extinction.

While I defer to the wisdom of the experts (they are many and I’m not one of them), I am at the same time compelled to defend my auditory preference, gourmand that I am.

Exhibit 1:  Future Funk Squad’s recent remix of ‘Are You Listening feat. Liz Melody’.  This is good stuff.

First off, the original mix by James Talk is terrific.  Even though it’s techno house, sniff. 

Nevertheless, FFS aka Glen Nicholls shakes the regimented dance beat of the original up and down and side to side, until to my ears it is edgy rollicking sexy hott.  A track that would rock even the early morning bus trip to work.

Future Funk Squad has produced an impressive corpus of original breaks tracks and remixes that sound fresh and keep the faith. 

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