Baltimore Club Style Overview
Baltimore Club Music Description
A type of sample-heavy breakbeat developed in the late 1980s in Baltimore which combines hip hop with chopped, staccato house music. It is characterized by a having repetitive, looped vocal snippets, and an 8/4 beat structure with tempos of around 130 BPM, and a rather "hurried" feel. The Jersey Club style of breakbeat which arose in northern New Jersey in the 1990s and 2000s was influenced by Baltimore Club.
