swifty said:
The breaks scene in perth is fucken enormous, it's easily THE biggest sub culture in the city. In fact far from dying off it's only getting stronger, Breakfest, the premier breaks gig branched off the Down south Breakfest last year, and we're seriously getting a phenominal amount of international DJ's here week in, week out, from what I gather it's the same in melbourne...
but that's just my little corner of the world...
Oh ok, well in Sydney, electro/house well and truly dominates the scene right now, and has done for a little while.
Sure there's still clubs running breakbeat nights, but it's not the dominant sound that it once was.
Take Field Day/Parklife for example. They used to be well known as primarily breakbeat events. These days most of the artists are electro/house.
Future Music is another perfect example, there were something like seven stages. One was trance, one was breaks, the rest were mostly electro and house, with one progressive tech I think (Sweet Chilli). The breaks stage was the smallest, and was kinda empty.
Like I said, that's Sydney, not Perth, so it could be different there.
Even Kid Kenobi has switched to DJ'ing electro/house.
And that's not to take away from the quality of breaks as a genre, it's just not in the same peak phase of popularity it was in a few years ago.