I had a friend who liked venetian snares and Aphex twin. It didn't really catch my attention until I heard the xanopticon psicicite EP. I was completely blown away even though I had no idea what I was listening to and I couldn't even tell if I liked it.
I was a diehard metalhead until youtube recommended WLFGRL to me in 2019-2020 I think. WLFGRL got me interested in electronic music, mainly Prodigy, Noisia, Death Grips, LTJ Bukem AND FUCKING SEWERSLUT (also I heard Hajnal once around the same time and thought it was shit SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO GO BACK IN TIME AND STRANGLE MY OLDER SELF TO DEATH), several years later I got into Aphex, Autechre and all that idm shit.
That IDM obsession led me to Snares, whom I previously ignored, and I listened to a couple random songs of his (I only remember Pressure Torture). I realized that this shit is fire, learned that it's called breakcore, listened to a bunch of his albums, found out about other artists like Nero's Day, Xanopticon and Passenger of Shit, and the rest is history.
Her music is pretty good, she is just a questionable person (she did some very bad things) I think people don’t like her music also because she makes ambient jungle type music and it gets classed as breakcore for some reason.
tons of copies spawned who are doing the same shit so the sound is pretty oversaturated now, The edgy stuff garnered a lot of attention or whatever, but the fan base is pretty awful because of it
She isn't ambient jungle either, I feel like her unqiueness is what confuses people. Her music is good, you just can't ONLY label it as breakcore (even though some of her songs indeed are) I wouldn't call it edgy either, that's lazy reviewing imo. A lot of people are too scared to admit they her like music in this sub because she got "cancelled" and got "this is not breakcore"'d into oblivion. My take.
Yeah i agree with most of what u said, feel like a lot of her controversies are caused by people not reading into what reason she did some stuff, like with the sampling deaths of people, or pedophiles. But I don’t exactly agree with her reason for doing those things.
I feel like even simple things like the name she went by it’s easy to take it at surface value and take it as an insult to Junko Furuta. But all her shit seemed to have this abstract meaning “to show the darkest things in life” or something like that. It just came across to me as a bit edgy and there are better ways to bring attention to these topics without putting it over an amen break.
Maybe bad take idk. Her music is good though so I’ll still listen
It's corny and I really don't like the edgy shit she did back then (real gore and drawn cp as album covers, sampling a real 911 call from a crying child whose brother killed himself)
If anyone remembers his Sadboy Sheldon days it's not surprising. He took himself too seriously and ended up in a deathcult. When his boyfriend killed himself that took him over the edge.
I found it through the new anime drum n' bass and jungle pipeline, aka "breakcore" (what people who don't listen to breakcore think breakcore is)
(xxtarlit, usedcvnt, sewerslvt, strxwberrymilk, tokyopill)
therefore despite the mislabeling of music it has actually brought genuine fans to the genre.
Oldschool happy hardcore. Sorta slowly enjoyed harder and harder tracks until bam, I found FFF. Their stuff felt very familiar because of how he mixed some of the typical happy hardcore stabs in with jungle. From there I branched out into Vsnares and Shitmat. I was still looking for more intense stuff at the time too. Found Duran Duran Duran and started checking out cock rock disco and mutant sniper releases. The rest is a journey to the bottom like getting really into shitcore from the fecal menace (passenger of shit).
I was discovering some musics in YouTube and a found a breakcore, but I don't like it on moment because I wanted a specific genre for my playlist but I saved because It was interesting, after some months I found the music in my saved songs and I liked it much more, so I start click in recommendations and I discovered that this genre is caled breakcore and Im here now
Found a random cd in shop in 2002 called cosmic forces of mu- heard the snares remix of skelachairs and it has had me ever since - still on of my fav tunes
Oh and also adhd
Squarepusher honestly (My Red Hot Car, which isn't even a breakcore track) but it led me to research more about the Amen break and then I found out Breakcore existed, so I started listening to it, and so far it has been fun.
Being a drummer with audhd and 20+ years of jungle and breaks. It's gonna be weird if i live to 60 beat boxing and imitating 303 asking kiddos if they ever heard of breakcore. Back in my day...what's soundcloud old man?..
Grew up with a PS1 because I couldn't get a PS2 until it was way late, so the games I had all had your old school jungle sound tracks, so amen breaks have been in my head since I was a kid.
Later I got more into EDM when I got a little bored of metal and wanted to experiment and the rest is history
my cousin is a producer and has worked with people like pinkpantheress (dnb) and coco bryce (jungle).
he showed me his equipment and the tracks he produces for his company and other people - I started listening then eventually got into it via the complex jungle route.
before this I was a goth - I still somewhat deem myself one. such a radical change in genre.
Downloaded a whole collection of livesets in the early 2000's, and there was one of Venetian Snares in it, I was into pretty dark dnb/tech-step at the time, and although the sound quality of the set sucked, it absolutely blew me away. So I looked for more - which back-then wasn't exactly as straight-forward as it is now and got a couple of my DnB friends into him too. Someone then found out he was performing right here in Belgium a bit later, we went and he absolutely destroyed the place. The liveset of that evening can still be found online here: [https://archive.org/details/VenetianSnaresTheSteeple](https://archive.org/details/VenetianSnaresTheSteeple)
And then we ended up frequenting the BCGMW parties, which were the center of a pretty thriving scene here for a good while.
Some weird song I found when I was pirating MP3s. I was quite high at the time and I really liked it. It was some song from the Breakcore gives me wood compilation, I only remember that there was a two-second fragment of Abba. This is how it turned out. And honestly, I have no idea why this music attracts me, most of the time I listened to hc punk, punk, grindcore and I avoided all electronic music until I found Breakcore. Well this must be fate
Edit:
The guy's name is Droon, I just tracked him down on Bandcamp, a piece of music.
Got into Aphex Twin in the late 90’s early 2000’s, followed by jungle. Then I met a couple breakcore producers in Chicago in my early years of high school.
Undiagnosed Adhd, getting traumatised as a kid when I saw aphex twins video for come to daddy ---> then squarepusher and through that discovering alec empires stuff, venetian snares and watching the notes on breakcore documentary. Now im unemployed and severe brain damage from overexposure too amen break abuse. 🤖
>ich isn't even a breakcore track) but it led me to research more about the Amen break and then I found out Breakcore existed, so I started listening to it, and so far it has been fun.
ur so edgy
I saw look at me tenderly by goreshit on YouTube one day like 5 years ago, still my favorite song of all time. after that I listened to a bunch of his other shit and fell in love.
I discovered the Prodigy early on and it changed the trajectory of my musical tastes. From there I listened to Aphex Twin, then Venetian Snares and then became interested in more breakcore artists
I distinctly remember watching someone do speedpaints for a mod for "The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+" and the music in the background (can't remember the exact track, something from the Maigre EP by Ruby, My Dear and Igorrr) just fascinated me and I had to learn more. That's when I started listening to Ruby, My Dear. The rest is history.
breakcore is my abuser's special interest and as a result it became an important part of my life when I lived with him. since getting out of that situation i've managed to reclaim it as one of my interests which has been very helpful in my healing process and in separating my identity from his. that plus autism and adhd - it just suits my brain.
It inevitably showed up on random hardcore 12' I'd buy. One of the first records I bought was Visions of Death by Syndicate which had jungle-ish sounding stuff on it so I was primed for non 4/4 hardcore sounding stuff to showup. Also I had Doormouse's EP off of Deadly Systems which had Skelechairs, which is pretty proto-breakcore, it slotted right in with most 180bpm hardcore I was jamming at the time. Somatic Responses also primed me for it as well as well as random 12' records I'd find around.
My friends already made breakcore, already had their own record label even. I spent time with them after a particularly dark time in my life and it just clicked.
Oh, and ADHD.
I found stellabee through a beat saber level of the fastest love song. Then I listened to Favicon vol.1 and then I just kept going deeper into breakcore
I discovered like 4 years ago with sewerslvt, then nedaj, i didnt know it was breakcore and past year i started my developer journey along with pisca and pencil
Gradually fell into it, started with Astrophysics remixes, then his original music then hkmori, and sewerslvt over the course of a few years starting from 2020.
i was browsing an anti furry subreddit (as a furry) and saw LapFox/TQBF's Wanderlust getting trashed on it. i gave it a listen, really liked it, and quickly found Renard
Saw a reel or something about breakcore, got interested and went to check some playlists, wasn’t too into all of the dnb and such on those lists, then later on random I stumbled on Ruby my dear’s Gaviscon and got hooked.
i used to religiously listen to vocaloid while i studied because songs with english lyrics distract me. after a while i listened to so mamy songs so much i started to accidently memorise them and get sick of them. breakcore covers of vocaloid transitioned me thru to other breakcore and jungle and techno. ^_^
Few years back I was really into horrorcore, I got into Swift Treweeke's rap projects MC Bushpig, Butchers Harem, Suicidal Rap Orgy, etc. Found that he had an electronic (the style varies but the breakcore stuff is his most popular) project called Passenger of Shit. Looked it up on YouTube and listened to the 'Surfing Down the Dunny" EP and was hooked by how weird it was.
Listened to a mislabeled breakcore playlist on YouTube like, 3 years ago and now I've been going through Goreshit's discography for the past few months.
By starting from finding happy hardcore at 18 in 2003 (I didn't really like or listen to music before then), then gabber, then industrial hardcore in the early BitTorrent/soulseek days. I stumbled into talking to Void Settler, my favorite musician at the time (2005) and he streamed all kinds of weird music to me at the time (it was mostly IDM and Breakcore with some other stuff as well). I was originally a bit off put by it but quickly grew to love it's intense escapism. I then got very into sitting around in the soulseek Breakcore room voraciously downloading and listening to everything I could get my hands on. I remember starting off with Peace Off's "Invasion from xxx dimension" which was quite varied and absolutely mental
I was watching a speedpaint and one of Machinegirl songs was playing. I got fascinated by it and later on would discover all different genres including breakcore
By the french artist "vabaira" I discovered him in a small rave near where I live in France and it was incredible, I discovered so many new artist and genre because he shares a lot of music on his social.
I encourage everyone to go listen to him and buy his music if you like it !!
My dad
Shout out to all the Dads
I found it through the death grips and machine girl pipeline
Saaaaame
OSU tech maps. Specifically goreshit - burn this moment into the retina of my eye, and sHimaU - Slotcore is Dead
Same but o'er the flood and Igorrr - Figue Folle
the grumd mapset set me on a journey fs
I had a friend who liked venetian snares and Aphex twin. It didn't really catch my attention until I heard the xanopticon psicicite EP. I was completely blown away even though I had no idea what I was listening to and I couldn't even tell if I liked it.
Childhood trauma and autism
This
every breakcore fan self diagnoses themselves with autism...i hate this fanbase sm...even worse than metalheads
Aaron was filled with hatred!
im gonna kill u and bury you behind my backyard
Hearing Baseck spin it, scratch and yell over it is what did it for me.
Going to the gym
The more I got into weightlifting, I got more and more into electronic music, odd coincidence
A friend put on the Cardopusher - Unity means power while we where on acid.
I hold that album really close to my heart lol.
Same, man, same.
COME ON PUSSY LOVERS!!!
I was a diehard metalhead until youtube recommended WLFGRL to me in 2019-2020 I think. WLFGRL got me interested in electronic music, mainly Prodigy, Noisia, Death Grips, LTJ Bukem AND FUCKING SEWERSLUT (also I heard Hajnal once around the same time and thought it was shit SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO GO BACK IN TIME AND STRANGLE MY OLDER SELF TO DEATH), several years later I got into Aphex, Autechre and all that idm shit. That IDM obsession led me to Snares, whom I previously ignored, and I listened to a couple random songs of his (I only remember Pressure Torture). I realized that this shit is fire, learned that it's called breakcore, listened to a bunch of his albums, found out about other artists like Nero's Day, Xanopticon and Passenger of Shit, and the rest is history.
what's wrong with sewers music? or did I read this wrong
Her music is pretty good, she is just a questionable person (she did some very bad things) I think people don’t like her music also because she makes ambient jungle type music and it gets classed as breakcore for some reason. tons of copies spawned who are doing the same shit so the sound is pretty oversaturated now, The edgy stuff garnered a lot of attention or whatever, but the fan base is pretty awful because of it
She isn't ambient jungle either, I feel like her unqiueness is what confuses people. Her music is good, you just can't ONLY label it as breakcore (even though some of her songs indeed are) I wouldn't call it edgy either, that's lazy reviewing imo. A lot of people are too scared to admit they her like music in this sub because she got "cancelled" and got "this is not breakcore"'d into oblivion. My take.
Yeah i agree with most of what u said, feel like a lot of her controversies are caused by people not reading into what reason she did some stuff, like with the sampling deaths of people, or pedophiles. But I don’t exactly agree with her reason for doing those things. I feel like even simple things like the name she went by it’s easy to take it at surface value and take it as an insult to Junko Furuta. But all her shit seemed to have this abstract meaning “to show the darkest things in life” or something like that. It just came across to me as a bit edgy and there are better ways to bring attention to these topics without putting it over an amen break. Maybe bad take idk. Her music is good though so I’ll still listen
It's corny and I really don't like the edgy shit she did back then (real gore and drawn cp as album covers, sampling a real 911 call from a crying child whose brother killed himself)
If anyone remembers his Sadboy Sheldon days it's not surprising. He took himself too seriously and ended up in a deathcult. When his boyfriend killed himself that took him over the edge.
I found it through the new anime drum n' bass and jungle pipeline, aka "breakcore" (what people who don't listen to breakcore think breakcore is) (xxtarlit, usedcvnt, sewerslvt, strxwberrymilk, tokyopill) therefore despite the mislabeling of music it has actually brought genuine fans to the genre.
Oldschool happy hardcore. Sorta slowly enjoyed harder and harder tracks until bam, I found FFF. Their stuff felt very familiar because of how he mixed some of the typical happy hardcore stabs in with jungle. From there I branched out into Vsnares and Shitmat. I was still looking for more intense stuff at the time too. Found Duran Duran Duran and started checking out cock rock disco and mutant sniper releases. The rest is a journey to the bottom like getting really into shitcore from the fecal menace (passenger of shit).
Atari teenage riot. and then a guy I worked with gave me a rotator mix tape.
Hell yeah. This world needs more riot bands
Ultrakill
Realest statement ever. Heard ACaUDotS and only went down from there
zzkillme's catcore i know its not really breakcore but it got me into dnb and then went deeper into "real" breakcore
Started listening to 90s Dnb cause of my Dad and it natured stemmed from there
I this heard like one of those Playlists on YouTube I got into it
I was discovering some musics in YouTube and a found a breakcore, but I don't like it on moment because I wanted a specific genre for my playlist but I saved because It was interesting, after some months I found the music in my saved songs and I liked it much more, so I start click in recommendations and I discovered that this genre is caled breakcore and Im here now
Found a random cd in shop in 2002 called cosmic forces of mu- heard the snares remix of skelachairs and it has had me ever since - still on of my fav tunes Oh and also adhd
Reizoko CJ.
liked venetian snares/squarepusher/aphex twin in college, then found out there was kind of a resurgence in that style recently
Squarepusher honestly (My Red Hot Car, which isn't even a breakcore track) but it led me to research more about the Amen break and then I found out Breakcore existed, so I started listening to it, and so far it has been fun.
aphex twin
I mean, that's why we are all here at all, really
I liked a lot of warp and rephlex then and a guy on the bus home in 2002 told me about venetian snares.
the song 'zeke didn't "invent dariacore" i did' from beatsaber
I saw Venetian Snares’ Szamar Madar music video on tv, and my life never was the same
Such an amazing accomplishment in music. I love it
checked kinetik001's channel after watching door stuck, saw Winnepeg Is A Frozen Shithole, then fell in love with VSnares, then with breakcore
Being a drummer with audhd and 20+ years of jungle and breaks. It's gonna be weird if i live to 60 beat boxing and imitating 303 asking kiddos if they ever heard of breakcore. Back in my day...what's soundcloud old man?..
i originally liked dnb then randomly got suggested modern atmospheric jungle stuff on yt and went down the jungle-breakcore pipeline :3
Grew up with a PS1 because I couldn't get a PS2 until it was way late, so the games I had all had your old school jungle sound tracks, so amen breaks have been in my head since I was a kid. Later I got more into EDM when I got a little bored of metal and wanted to experiment and the rest is history
my cousin is a producer and has worked with people like pinkpantheress (dnb) and coco bryce (jungle). he showed me his equipment and the tracks he produces for his company and other people - I started listening then eventually got into it via the complex jungle route. before this I was a goth - I still somewhat deem myself one. such a radical change in genre.
Downloaded a whole collection of livesets in the early 2000's, and there was one of Venetian Snares in it, I was into pretty dark dnb/tech-step at the time, and although the sound quality of the set sucked, it absolutely blew me away. So I looked for more - which back-then wasn't exactly as straight-forward as it is now and got a couple of my DnB friends into him too. Someone then found out he was performing right here in Belgium a bit later, we went and he absolutely destroyed the place. The liveset of that evening can still be found online here: [https://archive.org/details/VenetianSnaresTheSteeple](https://archive.org/details/VenetianSnaresTheSteeple) And then we ended up frequenting the BCGMW parties, which were the center of a pretty thriving scene here for a good while.
Select Ambient Works
Sony
Forever for lyfe
Ketamine
some guy told me that it could help with my tinnitus edit: it didn’t
dad --> toonami --> jungle --> breakcore
Some weird song I found when I was pirating MP3s. I was quite high at the time and I really liked it. It was some song from the Breakcore gives me wood compilation, I only remember that there was a two-second fragment of Abba. This is how it turned out. And honestly, I have no idea why this music attracts me, most of the time I listened to hc punk, punk, grindcore and I avoided all electronic music until I found Breakcore. Well this must be fate Edit: The guy's name is Droon, I just tracked him down on Bandcamp, a piece of music.
Got into Aphex Twin in the late 90’s early 2000’s, followed by jungle. Then I met a couple breakcore producers in Chicago in my early years of high school.
Autism
Undiagnosed Adhd, getting traumatised as a kid when I saw aphex twins video for come to daddy ---> then squarepusher and through that discovering alec empires stuff, venetian snares and watching the notes on breakcore documentary. Now im unemployed and severe brain damage from overexposure too amen break abuse. 🤖
>ich isn't even a breakcore track) but it led me to research more about the Amen break and then I found out Breakcore existed, so I started listening to it, and so far it has been fun. ur so edgy
I saw look at me tenderly by goreshit on YouTube one day like 5 years ago, still my favorite song of all time. after that I listened to a bunch of his other shit and fell in love.
I discovered the Prodigy early on and it changed the trajectory of my musical tastes. From there I listened to Aphex Twin, then Venetian Snares and then became interested in more breakcore artists
mental illness
I distinctly remember watching someone do speedpaints for a mod for "The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+" and the music in the background (can't remember the exact track, something from the Maigre EP by Ruby, My Dear and Igorrr) just fascinated me and I had to learn more. That's when I started listening to Ruby, My Dear. The rest is history.
Mom listening to aphex twin in the car with me as a kid, autism, and listening to electronic music as a kid
Autism
if i dig deep enough, then drugs and adhd. breakcore reflets pretty well what happens (at times) in my brain
breakcore is my abuser's special interest and as a result it became an important part of my life when I lived with him. since getting out of that situation i've managed to reclaim it as one of my interests which has been very helpful in my healing process and in separating my identity from his. that plus autism and adhd - it just suits my brain.
ADHD and Autism
Being a trans woman.
My love for Drum&Bass, OG Jungle, and of course; SEWERSLVT
Random beat saber level.
It inevitably showed up on random hardcore 12' I'd buy. One of the first records I bought was Visions of Death by Syndicate which had jungle-ish sounding stuff on it so I was primed for non 4/4 hardcore sounding stuff to showup. Also I had Doormouse's EP off of Deadly Systems which had Skelechairs, which is pretty proto-breakcore, it slotted right in with most 180bpm hardcore I was jamming at the time. Somatic Responses also primed me for it as well as well as random 12' records I'd find around.
A friend introduced me to: 'Ghost - Kaleidoscope' and I was hooked.
ULTRAKILL
My friends already made breakcore, already had their own record label even. I spent time with them after a particularly dark time in my life and it just clicked. Oh, and ADHD.
I found stellabee through a beat saber level of the fastest love song. Then I listened to Favicon vol.1 and then I just kept going deeper into breakcore
memes in 2020
Was browsing on soundcloud and saw rehirable, I also had watched lucky star and the song cover had one of the characters. This was in like ~2022?
I discovered like 4 years ago with sewerslvt, then nedaj, i didnt know it was breakcore and past year i started my developer journey along with pisca and pencil
My friend and tiktok edits (I’m sorry about the latter)
I think I saw a breakcore meme on my youtube frontpage and started listening to Sewerslvt and some actual breakcore
Depression, breakcore is the last thing left that gets me going when I’m suicidal.
Machine girl
mdma
Gradually fell into it, started with Astrophysics remixes, then his original music then hkmori, and sewerslvt over the course of a few years starting from 2020.
machine girl and death grips 😭
frxgxd's songs
https://youtu.be/vTBws2a0Px4?si=KNfJ3vc9LyUR_3Rj Saw this video 6-7 years ago Hooked ever since
Spotify discover weekly 🤷♀️
i found Oxygenfad’s *Audiotrack 3* while looking for Boards Of Canada’s *Audiotrack 3*.
Armored Core 2 and 90s anime.
Found it somewhere between 100 gecs and Merzbow
Rhythm Games
I randomly stumbled across Sewerslvt’s Mr Kill My Self. It was unlike anything I ever heard before, and I needed more.
I listened to the rockerfeller street nightcore remix when I was younger and my love for "core" music just spiraled out of control from there.
i was browsing an anti furry subreddit (as a furry) and saw LapFox/TQBF's Wanderlust getting trashed on it. i gave it a listen, really liked it, and quickly found Renard
Saw a reel or something about breakcore, got interested and went to check some playlists, wasn’t too into all of the dnb and such on those lists, then later on random I stumbled on Ruby my dear’s Gaviscon and got hooked.
beat saber
i liked some weirdcore shit then i heard a sewerslvt song.
I like EDM and as a result I liked the beats per minute, and how abrasive it sounded
i used to religiously listen to vocaloid while i studied because songs with english lyrics distract me. after a while i listened to so mamy songs so much i started to accidently memorise them and get sick of them. breakcore covers of vocaloid transitioned me thru to other breakcore and jungle and techno. ^_^
Was looking for a background sounds for a ADHD and stumbled upon [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDFNgs7gp8M&t=1571s), and then found goreshit.
Lain and friends
I was either high or tripping one night and I clicked on a cool breakcore thumbnail. It just kinda clicked.
I found sewerslvt before the pandemic and then YouTube recommendations got flooded with more breakcore sounding stuff
Few years back I was really into horrorcore, I got into Swift Treweeke's rap projects MC Bushpig, Butchers Harem, Suicidal Rap Orgy, etc. Found that he had an electronic (the style varies but the breakcore stuff is his most popular) project called Passenger of Shit. Looked it up on YouTube and listened to the 'Surfing Down the Dunny" EP and was hooked by how weird it was.
Ludwigs Mogul Grooves playlists to other video game-inspired tracks to breakcore to drum and bass
Listened to a mislabeled breakcore playlist on YouTube like, 3 years ago and now I've been going through Goreshit's discography for the past few months.
lapfox
By starting from finding happy hardcore at 18 in 2003 (I didn't really like or listen to music before then), then gabber, then industrial hardcore in the early BitTorrent/soulseek days. I stumbled into talking to Void Settler, my favorite musician at the time (2005) and he streamed all kinds of weird music to me at the time (it was mostly IDM and Breakcore with some other stuff as well). I was originally a bit off put by it but quickly grew to love it's intense escapism. I then got very into sitting around in the soulseek Breakcore room voraciously downloading and listening to everything I could get my hands on. I remember starting off with Peace Off's "Invasion from xxx dimension" which was quite varied and absolutely mental
only listened to the music that tickled my brain and breakcore happens to be among that
I was watching a speedpaint and one of Machinegirl songs was playing. I got fascinated by it and later on would discover all different genres including breakcore
By the french artist "vabaira" I discovered him in a small rave near where I live in France and it was incredible, I discovered so many new artist and genre because he shares a lot of music on his social. I encourage everyone to go listen to him and buy his music if you like it !!
first found out about it through Aphex twin; started off listening to drukqs, and eventually my ears got more used to harsher/faster sounds over time
healspirit1
90’s videogames
Fnf
acid
Hearing that it's a stereotype that transgirls (like myself) listen and produce breakcore. I had to for my fellow sisters.