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How do I avoid drum loops becoming repetitive?

Hey guys,

I'm not new to production, but definitely am to breakcore/jungle stuff, most of what I've done previously has been very lofi, but I've felt my creative intent leaning more towards faster stuff recently. I've got a handful of really good sample packs as far as break loops go (breakcore is not a good way to get laid, nu disco vol 1, etc), but I'm struggling with making tracks that don't feel incrwdibly repetitive in terms of drums.

I've done a bit of playing around with getting a few different loops and cycling between them, playing around with EQ and reverb to make builds with breaks, but I'm struggling to not make the track just feel intense the whole way through, and to make the drums...varied(?) if that makes sense.

Any advice is much appreciated, linking me to examples or tutorials is also super helpful!

Thank you

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u/Reficul63 — 4 days ago

Quick Bogdan Raszynski inspired beat while I'm procrastinating studying for midterms

Made with renoise and some samples from my monomachine. This is of course no where near how cool his music is, just threw it tg quick cuz I made a lead that reminded me of his stuff. Lmk if yall like it

u/Powerful_Fondant9393 — 5 days ago

Gimme christmas breakcore!

I'm trying to make a christmas breakcore playlist to listen to during december :> can also be hardcore, mashcore, noise, all that stuff. i might post it on here too. im finding it a bit hard to find christmasy breakcore, theres a lot of breakcore christmas mixes on youtube but either none of them really sound chrismasy imo or they arent even breakcore.

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u/Content_Conclusion31 — 5 days ago
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77 royalty free speedcore and hardcore drum samples and sounds from the 1990s

hi there,
here is a new sample pack with drums and other sounds. these samples are free to download, and royalty free.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/77-genuine-speedcore-drum-samples-from-the-1990s

these drums are taken from my actual tracks from "back in the day". some of these tracks (and drums) were created using software like impulse tracker, buzz tracker, cool edit pro, soundforge, native instrument's generator... the real deal! MS-DOS, win 3.11, then windows 98 (yeah i skipped 95).

the style of the drums is hardcore, of course, but i am sure they can be used for everything, when done right.

apart from the drums, there is synths, pads, percussion, noise, fx, and other weird stuff.

background:

i've been an electronic musician since ages... and since the 90s, at least.
my main style was gabber, speedcore, breakcore... the "harder edge" of techno if you want... and especially the faster one!
my music got very popular, i played my tunes in fronts of 1000s of people, at countless clubs, in the open, under railway bridges, at squats, i dropped 800 bpm tunes at places like tresor in berlin...

and my music was put on vinyl, 1000s of copies per release...

later i "mellowed down" a bit and got into techno and acid / doomcore production...

i am telling this not to boost my ego, but to show that these were drums that were actually used in the 90s and the years later, too, that got played out. are "club tested and crowd approved", so to say. not some faux reconstruction of an era that has gone by!

credits:

all drums and sounds created by me, low entropy.

license:

feel free to use these samples for any public, private, intimate, or commercial purpose.
would be *very* cool if you credit me, but it's not strictly necessary.

also check my other packs:

https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2026/03/free-drum-sample-packs.html

u/Low-Entropy — 12 days ago

Looking for recommendations

Hi, I'm relatively new to the breakcore community. I've been listening to Nero's Day at Disneyland/Lauren Bousfield and Passenger of Shit for a couple years, but that's really it. I discovered Venetian Snares a couple days ago and fell absolutely in love. I'm looking for stuff with similar sound to Lauren Bousfield and Venetian Snares, but any recommendations are appreciated! I'd love to know what you guys listen to :)

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u/Bubbly_Pea_2294 — 12 days ago