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Iconic Breaks#KN7C

Seven days, seven of the most important drum breaks ever recorded. Each day you get one iconic break and 24 hours to build a track or an idea around it: the break at the centre of the drums, not buried underneath them. No new packs to learn, no excuses. Survive all seven and land in the Hall of Fame.

Daily 7 stages Hardcore available
28 enrolled 13 in progress 15 finished
Hardcore mode ON

Submit each stage's track within 24 hours of its prompt to qualify for the special hardcore prize and certificate. Miss any deadline and you forfeit the hardcore reward - but you keep going and still earn the standard prize on completion.

Iconic Breaks
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  • New sample pack every 24 hours. Download the pack, build a track from it.
  • Submit before the next pack drops. One track per stage, replaceable until the next pack lands.
  • Finish 7 stages in hardcore mode → win prizes. See "On the line" below for what's up for grabs.

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On the line

Finish to claim them

2 prizes for finishers.

  • Iconic Breaks Sample Pack

    Iconic Breaks Sample Pack

    Standard

    Raw unprocessed collection of iconic break samples from history sampled from vinyl.

    Conditions: Finish the challenge.

  • 50% OFF Pro Breaks Packs

    50% OFF Pro Breaks Packs

    Hardcore

    Discount code for 50% off our Pro Breaks Packs.

    Conditions: Finish the challenge on hardcore mode.

Rules

Daily challenge 20s minimum 320kbps MP3
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• Each day you get one iconic break and a prompt for how to approach it. • You have 24 hours to make a track or an idea with that break as the centre point of the drums. • The break must be recognisable as the backbone of the groove. Layer it, chop it, process it - but don't reduce it to a hi-hat under a fresh kick and snare pattern. • Use any other sounds, samples or presets you like: as long each days iconic break is the recognisable central piece of character / groove for the drums in your track, you can use any other samples and sounds alongside the drums. • Any tempo, any genre. Jungle, DNB, halftime, 140, breakbeat, hip hop — the break travels. • Original and unreleased. No tracks that have been released publicly anywhere at the time of submission. • Finished means bounced. An idea counts. A loop with an arrangement counts. Perfection doesn't. • No AI-generated tracks. Suno, Udio, Riffusion, and similar tools are not permitted. Detected entries will be removed from the platform. • 20 seconds minimum, no maximum (although file size limit is 20MB). • Submit as 320kbps MP3. A song that breaks any of these rules will be marked as disqualified and cannot be liked or contribute towards your score as a result. Prizes may also be revoked.

Stage submissions

Hot Pants

Iconic Breaks

Stage 1 · Hot Pants

The break that half of jungle was built on. Fast, light, endlessly loopable: the one you don't need to chop to make work.

5 producers currently on this stage

Submissions (10 of 22)

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