Breakcore is a hybrid electronic music consisting of elements from Jungle, Drum & Bass, Hard Techno, Speedcore, Gabba, Happy Hardcore, IDM, Industrial, Noise, Experimental and many others. There is no -one- breakcore since there are so many different styles and modivations withinin breakcore. From party music to social political themes can be found. In Europe breakcore can and could be heard in the “free techno” sceane in France and Benelux. These parties are sometimes illegal and often are in squats.There is also a kind of break(haha as in breakcore) from the holligan tough guy image of gabba. Gabba is sometimes popular ammong right wingers and breakcore is not. The reason behind this could be in the hard to follow beats and or the political background of the artists and fans.
Music is primarly made with computers but the use of drum machines, samplers, synths and midi controlers is widely spread. The first software was the same that many speedcore and techno producers used- Trackers. Trackers such as “fast tracker” made it easy to produce tracks with a computer. You can use samples and the set up is very straight forward. Today there are all kinds of programs used, from simply cutting up breaks in a sound edior to complex programs like reason or logic.