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The Big Beat is a 1980 song by Billy Squier from his debut album The Tale of the Tape. While it never charted, the song has become a sampling staple in hip-hop music. As of 2020, the song has been sampled in almost 300 recordings.
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Aug 19, 2011 · The Big Beat Revolution: 11 Essential Songs. Big Beat took its name from the "Big Beat Boutique," a dance night that Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, co-founded in 1995. In the early...
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Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/techno. The term has been used by the British music industry to describe music by artists such as The Prodigy , the Chemical Brothers , Fatboy Slim , the Crystal Method , Propellerheads , Basement Jaxx ...