In the early 70s, a DJ that goes by the name of “Kool Herc” began playing records in a different and new way. At the time Herc had no idea that it would transform DJing into a form of art, and that it would set afoot for sample-based music. That we know it as today.
Kool Herc
Kool Herc, a young immigrant from Jamaica. Clive Cambell was his real name and Kool Herc was used as his stage name. He grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, and the clubs and discos were often called dance halls, and DJs were mostly called selectors. It was in South Bronx, New York, where Kool Herc would set off a musical revolution.
The Funk
Herc would primarily play hard funk records by artists like James Brown, Jimmy Castor, and The Incredible Bongo Band, etc. While he was DJing, Herc had perceived how the crowd was dancing more diligently at some of the parts in the songs. What differentiates DJ Kool Herc from other DJs at that time was his talent to repeat the most exciting part of each of his tracks, also mainly known as “the break”.
The Breakbeat
The break is a part of a song where drums, bongos, and congas, occasionally followed by a bass, escalate into small solos or rhythmic changes in the drum pattern. The break is often later found after the second verse and chorus in a song. Herc would remark that the crowd would dance more arduously during the break, and consequently, he mainly extended the break with two copies of the identical record. And “breakbeat” was invented as a term.
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