Breakcore
Breakcore is a fast, chaotic style of electronic music made from heavily chopped and distorted breakbeats played at very high tempos.
It emerged in the mid-to-late 1990s out of jungle, hardcore techno and drum and bass. Producers build very complex breakbeats, often by cutting up the Amen break, and pile on samples from anywhere, including pop, rock, hip hop and classical music. In the 2020s a revival took the name in a more nostalgic, atmospheric direction, tied to video game, anime and internet imagery.
Artists it is known for: Venetian Snares, Bong-Ra.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Europe and Australia, mid-1990s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,700 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have breakcore among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Breakcore artists
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usedcvntThe breakcore artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.