Fanu/FatGyver

Getting your jungle tempo breakbeats to sound as natural as possible...how? Here's how! When going 160-170 BPM, isn't always as simple as chopping it and just copying the rhythm of the original. Sometimes it feels like some natural vibe is missing, and trust me, having chopped hundreds of breakbeats

Found this dope break in a movie and you should have it too! Did a bit of isolation work, compared the results, and got busy. Get some strong eggnog and I hope you enjoy the video! Wishing everyone super relaxing holidays with all your loved ones (and a lot of FOOD). HERE is the cleaned up version d

D&B breakbeat re-creation time! I've been obsessing over this old J Majik tune on Metalheadz again because it's one sick tune in many ways and pretty much embodies so well what D&B is to me. I've always liked its intro beat which truly is like nothing else. The drumloop is clearly Soul Pride by Jame

Join me for a breakbeat house type idea creation session 🎛👌🏻🙂 Been meaning to use this classic hiphop break for years, and I finally heard it again at a restaurant the other day. Been also hungry to get a breakbeat house idea going AND combine that with a bit of Phase Plant wavetable bass design

Uncle Fanu promised to get back to the breaks in September, and he's not one to eat his words, so here we go! This is a very unknown break, but hey now you know it! "Paa Break" by Didier's Sound Spectrum. Great for DNB and this'd work well in hip hop (hey been there done that <-link) 📁 DOWNLOADS 📁

I'm getting busy with an explosive one! "Soul Drums" by Bernard Purdie. Man, Purdie is tight and funky, and he got soooo many more breaks, I prob gotta cover some more in a later BBOTM episode. This one has not been used that much in any genre, probably because 1) it does take some work and 2) it ha

So I (with some help) have discovered a whole new break, which, I am pretty sure, hasn't really been used by the breakbeat community much. What's the song and who helped me? Where did I use it before? Well, watch the video and find out! Grab the break as well as Ableton and Bitwig projects before. H

Here we are with the second episode of Breakbeat Of The Month. "Shack Up" by Banbarra is the name of the game: a very versatile breakbeat that can be used for downtempo, DNB, hip hop (as shown in the examples on the video). LOL, embarrassingly, in the beginning of the video, I say "Banbarra by Shack

I'm starting a new video series on my Patreon called Breakbeat Of The Month. In each episode, I will pick a breakbeat and chop it up! (See other Breakbeat Of The Month episodes HERE 📺) have been making jungle and DNB for 25+ years and I want to teach you all too. This first episode, I'm picking the

Recently, a DNB producer asked me how could come up with some random happy accidents in his drum patterns. Well, I always program my own quite meticulously, as you have seen. I happened to think of this old Photek method, and wanted to suggest this to him. He was delighted and said it feels perfect

Yoooo! I hope everybody's been mega productive! This period of the year is really good for me in terms of working on bass music and darker vibes and all that – while summer is nicer for hip hop (if you don't know, check out my hip hop stuff as FatGyver on Bandcamp or Spotify). Finished two DNB tunes

Working on another song idea, I wanted to share some thoughts regarding distributing the energy in a song, this time mostly relating to using a breakbeat but also some other song elements.

Hey ya'll! Chopping Science vol. 2 will come in Feb, but peep this! I wanted to share a few techniques in layering drumbreaks. Going thru some plugins and techniques to really squeeze some added tone out of a supporting break while keeping a main break on top. I can guarantee there’s especially one

So let's get this breakbeat thing rolling! Got lots of requests for that. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hrefo8z49ypnq3b/dirgepatreon.mp4?dl=0 (NO sharing the link! But feel free to tell your friends about my Patreon) I took a break I've been working recently and I'm going thru that. Covering some of the

Download the break here. It's my birthday today and I thought I'd give something back to the community, people that support me and so on. I'm taking the whole week off to work on some music, and one of the things I'm doing is work on a remix that uses the classic Think break by Lyn Collins. I haven'

VIDEO HERE! (no sharing link pls) Today on my Patreon, the class is in session, and the topic is how to play breaks with a tracker. I'm showing FOUR different ways to do it. Trackers and jungle are in vogue, and trackers are really conducive to playing jungle breaks. How to use Renoise is probably t

Came up with a thought today: why not let my patrons know about some hot breaks to sample – I'm always trying to promote a healthy breaks culture where producers'd use breaks not heard a lot before. So here's 10 dope ones off the top of my head. Some of these links take you to the digital release, b

As you know, I love breakbeats. There's nothing better than a phat drumloop you can chop and rearrange. I want to give my Patrons some specials, and here's a nugget. It's from an unreleased song of mine (that may come out one day). I was working on it again and thought, heck, if the song never comes