Georgia Ginsburg

As I write this, the East Coast is gripped in a heat wave worse than I can ever remember. Even today, a huge downturn from previous days basking meekly in the 70s, my room is slow-roasting me; in a few days, it will break 100 degrees. My car is nearly

This week, we reexamine the legacy of acid house's influence on early breakbeat hardcore and the diversity of sound that it brought to a genre that drew from anything and everything. “Breakbeat hardcore drew its melting pot of sound from a vast array of influences – from new beat

This week, we dive back into the record bin for a piece of historical hardcore and end up in 2019 Japan, looking at a slab of pure hardtek party music. We’ve had a lot of ambitious projects and heady essays about hardcore culture lately so I thought it was

This week, we get angry at the late 1990s record industry. Like usual. I was downloading cover art for a makina record I had Soulseeked the other day when I noticed something kinda funny on the label: It was actually Volume 7 but I’m not subjecting you to that

This week on The Breakdown, we get nostalgic about the mixtape: part rave-era cultural artifact, part long-last artform, part format curiosity. Also: Georgia goes on a long rant about her favorite still-operational rave era label. Remember the mixtape? I don’t think it’d be accurate to say that younger

This week, The Breakdown finally returns with a giant-size deep dive into the complicated history of breakcore and try to make sense of it in an era where the term means less than ever. Content Warning: This article discusses a style of music primarily known for its association with themes