Club Culture presents: Electro, Breaks & Bass

A Manchester club night in the Northern Quarter devoted to electro, breakbeat and bass music, staged at Eastern Bloc Records, a concert and performance venue on Stevenson Square.

Club Culture presents: Electro, Breaks & Bass is an electronic night spanning three closely related strands of dance music. Electro grew from early 1980s drum-machine and synthesiser production and is built on hard, mechanical rhythms. Breaks, or breakbeat, is defined by syncopated, chopped drum patterns, while bass music covers the heavy, low-frequency styles associated with London's dubstep scene.

Eastern Bloc Records is a concert and performance venue in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, where this club night takes place. The night suits anyone who follows electronic dance music across these styles, with electro, breaks and bass sharing one bill.

Breakbeat and bass styles both rely on sampled drum loops and sub-bass lines, which links the three strands together on one evening.