Instead of Kool Herc playing the tracks in their entirety, the Jamaican-American DJ isolated instruments (or “breaks” or breakdowns), during which he noticed the crowd going wild. Since this part of the record was the one that the dancers liked the most, Herc isolated the break and extended it by alternating between two records. As the break was ending on one record, he would fast forward to its beginning on the other, allowing him to expand a relatively short piece of music into a "five-minute rage loop". He called this technique "The Merry-Go-Round" (= carousel), because it was supposed to go around all the time without any looseness.
He called the dancers 'break boys' (b-boys) and 'break girls' (b-girls), and described the dance as 'breaking'. Due to the specific music and movements (powermoves, footwork, freezes), this dance is different from all the others. In the dance steps and the way of moving, the influence of salsa, capoeira, merengue, rocking and kung fu, among others, can be seen.
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