Very interesting thread.
I haven't posted yet because I guess I'm what people like Karl S would call the 'next gen', and I fucking love breaks more than anything, while I still love so many other genres of EDM...
Yes I'm a little 20y/o baby, and while over the last couple of years going to heaps of breaks parties around Melbs I have met lots of great people, I have noticed that most of the DJs/producers/promoters that are into 'breaks' are on average 10 years older than me. But I much prefer the vibe and types of people at 'breaks' parties at all the RLT events that Dan throws at BA for example to the Electro House crowds full of people my age (mostly jocks/ in pink fluoro 'beaters and blonde chicks with half a brain cell)
But I guess the generational gap is daunting and I often wonder why barely anyone my age is into breaks...even most of my friends (with diverse musical tastes) still don't even have any idea what breaks is, even though I've tried to educate them, because they just aren't plugged into the world of it, apart from going to see a bit of Krafty or Plumps at Parklife or whatever. But in terms of partying, usually involving pills, they still all prefer a house beat.
Maybe its because I grew up on a musical diet of broken beats - my (half)brother who is 35 inherited like 15k when his dad died and spent it all on CDs and comics (and a Porsche branded push bike). He always shared his music with me and his presents were always mixtapes or CDs. Whether it be The Orb,
Ninja Tunes stuff, Beats by Dope Demand compilations, James Brown or more rare
funk tunes, Drum n Bass, whatever, it was very alternative stuff compared to what ANYONE I knew liked. When I was 10 or younger I was listening to this stuff. In around 2001, year 8 of high school for Media class I used an Aquasky vs Masterblaster track as the soundtrack to one of my animations (and everyone else just called it 'techno').
Its all got to do with the super-fast rise of the popularity of Electronic music in general , and Rock and HipHop artists getting on board over the last 5 years. Most people of my generation have jumped into EDM only really hearing Electro (or trance) sounds. And yet they still claim to have liked the Prodigy for years (but I bet they don't have the Dirtchamber Sessions on CD like me)
Maybe as KS said in his ITM thread there does just need to be a bit more of a mainstream popularity injection, if people really do want breaks to rise up from the "underground" and be like it was a few years ago. But is that really a good thing, the quality of music and the crowds at the parties might decline? There's always a tradeoff for money.... Anyway, I don't care, all i know is if I moved into house, my GF (who is 6yrsolder) would kill me because she loves breaks too
But as Skool of Thought said to me last year after his set, when I asked him about his edit of Wolfgang Gartner's Montezuma
"its all 4.4". Don't forget that either, breaks is still in music theory a 4/4 beat, unless you're listening to breaks versions of Waltz music that you count in 3s hahah.
Good music is good music I spose. At least Fidget draws from alot of different genres and the tracks often have breakbeat in there, maybe that will help to bridge the gap. Alot of my friends are loving this stuff.
/end essay, don't hate on me like you would NakedAge
Better still, no one turns up but the DJ who pretends to talk to people and hand out drink cards. or wait, that would just be a Breaks gig. 
