Breakbeat Era

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Breakbeat Era was a short-lived project that combined the breakbeat talents of drum and bass producers Roni Size and DJ Die with the vocals of singer Leonie Laws. Spearheaded by the single Ultra-Obscene, and then released as an album under the same title in 1999. It was one of the first rock/pop/drum&bass fusion albums, a genre which Kosheen also later explored.

In conjunction with the album's release, the group was also seen as a live act in the US and UK in a similar vein as Reprazent, with focus on Leonie Laws.^[1]

Since the album seems to be a one-off project, other releases seem unlikely. As of 2006, Leonie Laws was working with a new drum and bass live band called "Blackout".