Feel free to move this to your 'hardcore 101' area, but I think this is deserving of it's own topic. Correct me if I'm wrong.

WTF IS BREAKCORE?
Breakcore is a genre of electronic dance music which uses rearranged, cut-up breakbeats to create extreme sounds. Beginning in the mid 1990s breakcore as a genre developed from different styles of music such as drum and bass, hardcore techno, IDM, mashup, industrial and noise.
Breakcore began to evolve out of a boredom with stagnant forms of more traditional techno and rave music as well as an evolution within noise and sound art. A need for faster BPM's as well as a more anti-authoritarian sound also pushed the various sub-genres to more extreme states.At this point, pre-breakcore came from London, Berlin and Newcastle, Australia (home of Bloody Fist Records).

Fringeli describes the sound then as "a hybrid strategy rather than a style or genre. It drew its influences and sources from industrial hardcore, jungle/drum'n'bass and everything in between and neighbouring it, engaging in an alchemy of sounds, pillaging the rave culture and sharpening, radicalizing and intensifying it." [1]

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 the seminal labels above (among others) new labels such as Addict from Milwaukee, USA, Peace Off from Rennes, France and Planet Mu from London began to take 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 into their music thus allowing for an even broader definition of what was possible in the music while at the same time also confirming certain elements of style to unite the music.

One of the most controversial issues in breakcore is that of the mere existence of the genre. Because it pulls liberally from other musical genres, there is not a consensus on what is and what is not breakcore, or even over the usefulness of the term itself. Because of the fragmentation, the breakcore scene is not centered in any one geographical location, but is rather scattered into disparate groups. Perhaps the one place where breakcore's "voice" can be heard is virtually, through the internet and various online forums, such as those at C8 and Widerstand (Eiterherd's website, now defunct).

According to Simon Reynolds of The New York Times breakcore is "purveyed by artists like DJ/Rupture and Teamshadetek, the 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, Kid 606 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 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."[4]

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO FINISH THIS ARTICLE, PLEASE VISIT:
Breakcore, wiki-style.

LOOKING FOR VINYL OR ARTIST TRACKS AND INFO?
ADDICT RECORDS.
PLANET MU.
GIRLCUM RECORDS.
DALY CITY RECORDS.

- Venetian Snares -
- Duran Duran Duran -
- End.user -
- Bong-ra -
- Drop the Lime -
- Sickboy Milkplus -
- Fanny -
- Doormouse -
- DJ Scud -
- Unibomber -
- Abelcain -
- Shitmat -
- Sonic Death Rabbit -
- Dev/Null -
- Xanopticon -
- Kid 606 -
- SEA OTTER -
- Hecate -
- Mochipet -
- Noize Creator -

This is a very small list, and is nowhere near complete.