Producers in South Florida and Tampa kept with a deep house flavor or retained more of the funk and hip-hop influence of Miami's so-called "ghetto-bass" that evolved and is sometimes called the funky breaks. For example, the Orlando Sound of Central and Northern Florida were strongly influenced by new beat, trance and progressive house sounds. The genre's inspirational influences have created regional and preference variations of the Breaks within Florida that have made the genre more difficult to define. However, there did not seem to universal consensus on the exact elements that constituted the Florida Sound. Nick Newton, an English breaks DJ and producer, called his 1996 record Orlando and the Orlando Sound was also referred to as Florida breaks. This mixture became known as "The Orlando Sound." The sound gained acclaim and became wildly popular among DJs and club goers during the mid 1990s and was marketed internationally as "Orlando friendly." The Breaks strongly influenced other producers who mixed breakbeat with progressive, and trance. Orlando Mix 96 Mixed Florida breaks, acid breaks from all over the state recorded live in Orlando Nick Newton's Orlando mix of Screamer the progressive style defined the Orlando Sound
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Set U Free by Planet Soul exemplifies the vocal and breakdown elements of Florida Breaks, YouTube video Nick Newton's - Planet Acid combines acid, electro, and breakbeat elements for a grittier Florida sound, Passion by K5 is an example of Florida Breaks, YouTube video Europe began to take notice of Orlando's expanding culture. By mid-1993, Large events at the Edge helped launch the popularity of the Florida breaks elsewhere in the U.S. Eddie Pappa, influenced by nights spent at the Beacham, honed his skill at The Edge when it opened in 1992 and is considered a pioneer in the Breaks genre. The breaks genre started to gain local popularity as a local underground music subculture developed during Orlando's Summer of Love era from roughly 1989 to 1992. The unique Florida style was first encountered during the late '80s inside the historic Beacham Theatre in Orlando.