Anyone into breakdancing??

[ian e30 318is]

This has to be one of the sickest break competitions ive ever seen. Red Bull BC One. Could be a repost but havent seen it anywhere. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq7SwTJChnI&feature=related

Ian

[E30SPDFRK]

wtf, I have a hard enough time standing on one foot. That stuff is amazing.

[Massive Lee]

He, he.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIAjoNYgXHU&feature=related

[red]

Yeah breakdancing...that's a term created by the media in the 80's when Flashdance came out with it.

I break, but the correct term is b-boy. There's no written history so the "b" has been argued to stand for "break" which refers to the break in the record when they would get down and start doing floorwork. But some also say its boogie...

Anyways if you want to see crazier shit check out www.bboyworld.com/forum

That shit on TV and televised is cool but more of the raw shit happens in the cyphers/circles.

Sorry to come in correcting you, but I don't want the truth of the culture to be drowned out by the media.

[Massive Lee]

Sorry to come in correcting you, but I don't want the truth of the culture to be drowned out by the media.

I was "there" in 1981. The general discipline was indeed called Breakdancing or "Electric Boogie" (hence the famous track bearing the same name), done by B-Boys, or Breakers. There were several tracks supporting the breakers. Among others, "Breakers Revenge" by Arthur Baker. I saw guys like Grand Mixer DST in winter 1980-1981, and his accompagning crew when breakdancing started. Then by 1983, it was a way more common trend.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yq3lqY6-xz8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dcK79QsNzi4

[e30 gangsta]

gambler > all

[Julien]

red... chu got served by old man leeeeeeee (lou)





Julien

I was "there" in 1981. The general discipline was indeed called Breakdancing or "Electric Boogie" (hence the famous track bearing the same name), done by B-Boys, or Breakers. There were several tracks supporting the breakers. Among others, "Breakers Revenge" by Arthur Baker. I saw guys like Grand Mixer DST in winter 1980-1981, and his accompagning crew when breakdancing started. Then by 1983, it was a way more common trend.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Yq3lqY6-xz8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dcK79QsNzi4

[FredK]

^hahaha

[Massive Lee]

The 70'S and 80's were a huge melting pot of music and social movements. From the mid 70's disco and shuffle, came 1977's Punk "era" that lasted a year only but edefined that anyone can make music. Fuck the stars, fuck the big known bands. Lear three chords and make an album. It evolved into New Wave, which included so many musical trends that mixed together and were the expression of the working class, as much as the artsy students. Ska, reggae, then electro, pop, funk, jazz. And it got so creative that after a couple of years later, something new emerged. Black musicians copying German electronic band Kraftwerk, using simple drum machines like Roland's famous TR-808 and creating a new musical genre: Zuluu Nation (founded by Afrika Bambaata) was the foundation of hip hop (Afrika Bambaata was also sued for literally copying Trans Europe Express). Black musicians were totaly mesmerized by electronic music with a beat and rythm, while they thought that electronic music was nothing more than Vangelis. Even Herbie Hancock, famous jazz musician, got sucked into it and created another breakdance anthem: Rock it.

Trans Europe Express. The original.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LWlgbAc3bbM

Afrika Bambaata's Planet Force.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9h6pcqC6wrI

Herbie Hancock's Rock it. Vastly inspired by Yello, a Swiss electronic duo.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=S7dAxvj2mlU

What about Art of Noise's Beat Box. Another original anthem for the B-Boyz movement.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kk1Kvpds15o&feature=related

From this song, breakdance boomed, creating a totally new culture. White peoples had the punk era to redefine their music. Black people had breakdance. Action taking place at the street level, with ordinary people, not highly paid stars. Everyone can create a new move or a new style. The mid 1980's then became very quiet and dull as the industry was regurgitating all these trends. Then by the late 1980's a new sound came from Chicago: house music. The experiments with beatboxes and electronics that started with the street's breakdance evolved into the kitchen. Chicago's house and Detroit's techno then met into acid house and warehouse parties otherwise known as raves. Then by the early 1990s anoher sound from Oregon and Washington came, but new it was not, it was nothing more than what The Cure and other depressed bands were doing 10 years ago.

These movements have tried very hard at abolishing stardom, moving the action to the street. Sadly, these days, everyone thinks they are a star. "Me myself and I" culture will make mass movements impossible. Or am I wrong?

[Farbin Kaiber]

If interested, I suggest picking up a copy of "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life"

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Night-DJ-Saved-Life/dp/0802136885/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211896988&sr=1-1

It could be described as an in depth analysis of Massive Lee's last post.

[Massive Lee]

I suggest also watching "Scratch". It explores the divorce between the DJ and the MC. How MCs started becoming star rappers, letting down DJs.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=E795nmyZYCQ

Back in the days, "Freestyle" and "Beat Street" were two movies that presented what was about to become known as hip-hop.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zNsMEP0i8aM

BTW It was Michael "Shrimp" Chamber who created a certain move called the "electric boogaloo" in 1979 when breakdance was not yet know as such. And showed it to then black Michael Jackson (well, he was hired for that)... Michael Jackson then showed to a mainstream white audience the "moonwalk".

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5LIbkMyjEC4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ivGnvAu1KS8&feature=related

http://www.officialboogalooshrimp.com/Home_Page.html

A lot has happened in the past 3 decades. Especially the black culture to which white boyz wanted to be identified with.

[myinfernalbmw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2Mb8pM6E8

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[e30 gangsta]

Massive knows his stuff.

Coming from a guy who has had turntables for a very long time and has been in that scene. Massive is spot on. People have forgotten about the 4 elements and now its all about how much $ they can make. I wish people still produced songs like
the mexican, funky Nassau, its just begun etc. etc.

I guess old funk, and electro breaks has past its time...

No real turntablist's anymore. I mean you got craze, juju, qbert the same guys that have been on the scene for a while. Seems like now a days guys just pick up 2 cdj 1000's and they are dj's go figure.

Im amazed someone knows about this 'culture' if you want to call it on r3v. Defiantly something i was not expecting.

[Dave]

That Red Bull thing made me think of the "Walk Off" in Zoolander.

[Farbin Kaiber]

People have forgotten about the 4 elements and now its all about how much $ they can make.

Tru dat.


It's like NASCAR. I mean, Sprint-Winston-Nextel-Busch-National-Marketing Execs-500-Boogity-Coca-Pepsi-Viagra-Broughttoyoubyourfriendsat...NASCAR.