Breaking Beattz (@bbeattz) makes his Dirtybird debut with Booty Bang, a two-track EP that continues the label’s Flight Week Brazil release series. Out now via Dirtybird, the project follows earlier Flight Week Brazil releases from BadComppany and Sudden Heat & Pitros, carrying forward the writing camp’s focus on collaboration across Brazil’s electronic music community.
For Breaking Beattz, the release also marks another international step in a career that has already included records on Cloonee’s Hellbent Records and Tchami’s Confession.
The EP opens with “Booty Bang,” a collaboration with fellow Brazilian producer Ishimaru built around punchy vocal chops, thumping basslines, and rolling percussion. The second track, “Down N Down,” moves into deeper territory with a catchy topline and groove-led rhythms.
Across both tracks, Breaking Beattz keeps the project connected to the club-first spirit that has shaped his work for more than a decade, along with the Bass de Vagabundo movement he created and the Brazilian electronic music community he continues to support through BDV Records.
In the interview below, Breaking Beattz talks about collaboration, taste, patience, and why faster access to ideas can sometimes make producers feel like they are falling behind. His answers fit the story behind Booty Bang, since the EP came out of a writing camp designed to put artists in the room together and let ideas develop outside their normal routine.
The result is a release rooted in exchange, instinct, and the kind of studio timing that cannot always be rushed.
Interview With Breaking Beattz
Some of the best records come from unexpected creative pairings. What have you learned through the collaboration process?
It was really cool working with Ishimaru. I have been following him for a long time, and when he sent me a few demos, this one caught my ear right away.
I was really happy to jump on it, and I think we ended up with a real banger.
When polished ideas can appear quickly, how should producers think about the value of time spent in the studio?
I think studio time is all about quality, not just hours. I usually have a routine and try to work during the day, but if it is not flowing, I do not force it.
I go train, watch some videos, or get other stuff done, then come back later. Sometimes the ideas come instantly, sometimes they do not. That is just part of the process.
In a faster creative culture, what should artists protect first: attention, taste, patience, or direction?
For me, taste comes first. Your taste is what builds your identity and gives your music direction. If you stay true to that and keep being patient, people will eventually connect with what you are doing.
What helps producers stay grounded when every tool is built to speed things up?
Just understanding that everything takes time.
Nothing happens overnight, and every genre and every career has its ups and downs. Once you have been through a few of those cycles, you stop stressing so much. I think that is what helps you stay grounded and build a long career.
Faster access to ideas sounds useful. Why can it also make artists feel behind?
Having ideas faster is great, but it can also make you feel like you are always behind because everything moves so fast. At the same time, it also means a lot of music starts sounding the same.
If you take your time and make something that actually feels different, that is what people remember.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
