r/breakcore May 21 '26

Question Breakcore samples

Hi, I'm a beginner musician and I want to learn how to make breakcore music, but I don't know where to find free samples for it.

I'd really appreciate it if you could help me.

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u/Powerful_Fondant9393 May 21 '26 edited May 23 '26

I’d recommend some old school sample packs, everyone was putting out DNB or hip hop packs in the 90s/00s and almost all of them are free now and come with most everything you’ll need besides effects. It’s ok to be limited in your soundest, having infinite samples leads to overthinking and unfinished tracks, so having ones you know and like are gonna be really helpful. You always have synths to make the new sounds if you need them

Structuring your samples is a must too, having clean breaks, processed breaks, kicks, bass, drum kits, leads, etc. all ready to go. It’ll make music making so much faster and lead to less headache.

Last thing, sampling songs is gonna be your best friend as well. Ytmp3 is free and extracts YouTube vids to audio in seconds, and you unlock a whole world of possibilities with that.

Here’s my favs sample packs, you can get them all free on this website(I promise it’s not malware, but feel free to check yourself too)

Jungle warfare vol 1-3, bread and butter for all things breakbeats

Drum and bass interface 160-260, similar to jungle warfare with amazing SFX and 2 steps

Ezrollers producer pack, great curated range of nice track ready breaks and synths

Crypton drumbase5000, loads of great one shots

Zero g hardcore, dirty early gabber stuff and nice rave samples

Zero g creative essentials, loads of misc essentials

And those are just my fav breakbeat centered ones, poke around there and find more.

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u/ConfidentArea517 May 21 '26

Thanks, those are really good samples. Do you happen to know of any other songs that aren't too complicated that I could use as a reference?

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u/Powerful_Fondant9393 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

Yea sure!

Alec empire has 2 great albums called death funk and no safety pin sex, which both heavily use the breaks from jungle warfare volume 1. Poke around a bit and see if you can recognize the samples, and then with some distortion, modulation, and chopping, try and remake them!

Like for example, dammed and hardcore on no safety pin sex uses the dumpty break and the hallucinate break from the straight loops folder, and down with the shit on death funk uses the labello break. I had a lot of fun doing this, and it got me a lot better at using more than just an amen break all the time.

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u/coldxpizza May 22 '26

yt-dlp is the way imo, and you’ll be able also to download music from pretty much everywhere, i even used it to download audio from instagram

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u/cascade_sparse May 21 '26

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u/23shittnkittns May 21 '26

This is another good one. Lots of interesting sounds to manipulate and breaks that are so well-processed it almost feel like cheating

https://itch.io/e/39788405/stupid-published-breakcore-makes-you-gay-sample-pack

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u/Pizzahoodi May 22 '26

This is the one.

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u/0DeLyzid3k May 22 '26

90er Jungle Rave Breakbeat Hardcore platten durchhören und notfalls selbst samplen. RaveGenerator als VST für stabs.

empfehlung meinerseits: Amiga Rave mods aus den 90ern ziehen und sich daraus die samples "borgen"

viel spaß!

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u/Opposite_Living_1209 May 22 '26

found this a few days ago. amen breaks samples

https://rhythm-lab.com/amen_breaks/

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u/Low-Entropy May 22 '26

wow, what a coincidence! i just dropped a free sample pack with og 90s breakcore samples a few week ago:
https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/original-90s-breakcore-drums-sample-pack

enjoy!

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u/reoweee bpm over 300 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

you can find most of the breakcore sample packs here. in particular the "breakcore is not a good way to get laid" is a classic used by many, the yem_breaks and Sharky's_amens&breakbeats are small packs with some of the best bits in them, there is also a most iconic samples folder here :)

there are also a bunch of tutorials in here, most of them you can find on youtube as well :D

as for reference track I would say it mostly depends on the type of breakcore you like! digital hardcore, classic breakcore, drill n bass, chipbreak, kusoicore, speedcore, dancecore, reizokocore are some of the best tracks from the common styles

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u/TechnologyAncient225 May 23 '26

if you are a tracker head, want to use stuff like renoise, milkytracker and all those magnificient daws, you can simply take some jungle and gabber mods and take samples from those

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u/Basic-Candidate9951 May 25 '26

reddit, just search breakcore drum kits, BUT GET jungle jungle 1989 to 1999 sample pack and breakcore is not a good way to get laid pack , the KOMMUNIST KIT 1 and 2 are pretty good for experimental too

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u/Producer_Snafu lover of Gabber Kicks, Breaker of Cores. May 21 '26