Beats and Breaks

An electronic music event in Bristol, presented at Cosies, a concert and performance venue in the city. It offers a live evening within the genre.

Beats and Breaks is an electronic music event in Bristol, built around the rhythmic and textural sounds that define the genre. Electronic music draws on programmed beats, synthesised tones and sampled sound, and the evening sits within that tradition.

The event takes place at Cosies, a concert and performance venue in Bristol. It is aimed at people who follow electronic music and want to hear the genre performed live in the city.

Electronic dance music took shape in the 1980s, when house emerged in Chicago and techno in Detroit, and both styles later spread through clubs and festivals across the world. Breakbeat, with its syncopated drum patterns, is one of the strands that followed from that period.