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Total Runtime: 53 min.
Notes on Breakcore
Dir. Bertram Könighofer & David Kleinl, 2006, Austria, German/English w/ subtitles, 31 min.
For decades, breakcore has lurked in the shadows of the electronic underground - a bastard offspring of jungle, breakbeat, gabber, and hardcore techno. As it refused to go away, music press increasingly adopted it as yet another tool for categorisation. Look closer, though, and the "genre" turns out to be less a style than a strategy: a hybrid that raids and reassembles everything in reach - punk, free jazz, classical, metal, soul, '80s pop and rock, hip-hop, and more. Somehow it never got fully absorbed by the industry. It stayed uncategorizable, chameleonic, sprawling from noise-drenched dancefloor chaos to the outer edges of the electronic avant-garde.
In 2005 Austrian artists and media designers Bertram Könighofer and David Kleinl set out to ask some of breakcore's key figures how they saw themselves and their lives as musicians. They didn't know it yet, but they were capturing the genre's second wave at its peak. Since then, breakcore has been revived and reinterpreted once more, riding the current '90s wave back into clubs, video game soundtracks, and hyperpop.
The artists in this film built their own labels, platforms, and distribution networks. No gatekeepers, no A&R, just laptops, turntables, and a global network held together by the early internet. DIY was the whole point: rockstars of their own making, they bypassed conventional media channels to deliver exactly what they promised their community: "My subculture can kick your subculture's ass anytime 24/7“. Featuring: Aaron Spectre, Baseck, Bong-Ra, Christoph Fringeli, Dev/Null, Jason Forrest, Kid606, µ-Ziq, Venetian Snares, and many more.
Bass Boss
Dir. Rana Ghose, Canada, 2026 22 min.
Rana Ghose investigates Dek Bass, a sound system style unique to West Bengal and sets out to meet its elusive leading light DJ Khabir. Overwhelming, aggressive, and prone to virulent fandom in his region, this form of sonic expression and assertion is of its own genesis. There is no reference to Jamaican sound system culture within. It was rendered pure and unadulterated from the mind of one person: DJ Khabir.
All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.
Notes on Breakcore x Bass Boss
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Total Runtime: 53 min.
Notes on Breakcore
Dir. Bertram Könighofer & David Kleinl, 2006, Austria, German/English w/ subtitles, 31 min.
For decades, breakcore has lurked in the shadows of the electronic underground - a bastard offspring of jungle, breakbeat, gabber, and hardcore techno. As it refused to go away, music press increasingly adopted it as yet another tool for categorisation. Look closer, though, and the "genre" turns out to be less a style than a strategy: a hybrid that raids and reassembles everything in reach - punk, free jazz, classical, metal, soul, '80s pop and rock, hip-hop, and more. Somehow it never got fully absorbed by the industry. It stayed uncategorizable, chameleonic, sprawling from noise-drenched dancefloor chaos to the outer edges of the electronic avant-garde.
In 2005 Austrian artists and media designers Bertram Könighofer and David Kleinl set out to ask some of breakcore's key figures how they saw themselves and their lives as musicians. They didn't know it yet, but they were capturing the genre's second wave at its peak. Since then, breakcore has been revived and reinterpreted once more, riding the current '90s wave back into clubs, video game soundtracks, and hyperpop.
The artists in this film built their own labels, platforms, and distribution networks. No gatekeepers, no A&R, just laptops, turntables, and a global network held together by the early internet. DIY was the whole point: rockstars of their own making, they bypassed conventional media channels to deliver exactly what they promised their community: "My subculture can kick your subculture's ass anytime 24/7“. Featuring: Aaron Spectre, Baseck, Bong-Ra, Christoph Fringeli, Dev/Null, Jason Forrest, Kid606, µ-Ziq, Venetian Snares, and many more.
Bass Boss
Dir. Rana Ghose, Canada, 2026 22 min.
Rana Ghose investigates Dek Bass, a sound system style unique to West Bengal and sets out to meet its elusive leading light DJ Khabir. Overwhelming, aggressive, and prone to virulent fandom in his region, this form of sonic expression and assertion is of its own genesis. There is no reference to Jamaican sound system culture within. It was rendered pure and unadulterated from the mind of one person: DJ Khabir.
All sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Five minutes after the listed showtime, any unused tickets will be considered no-shows and released to standby customers.
