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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 ...
- Early 1990s, London, England
Nov 8, 2016 · Freestylers. *THUMP: Let's start with the big one—what exactly was big beat? Freestylers: Big beat was the fun element of club music that broke the mould and fashions of what club...
- Josh Baines
Jun 7, 2021 · Music. Big Beat Music Guide: 4 Characteristics of Big Beat Music. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 3 min read. Club music got heavier and more distorted in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and this led to the rise of a genre called big beat.
Oct 14, 2016 · Though some of the sounds and styles overlapped, big beat was like the poppier antithesis to the intellectualism of the more critically beloved IDM, and a response to the self-importance of...
Feb 28, 2013 · Treble assembles 10 of the absolute best Big Beat singles in the age of EDM, ranging from Chemical Brothers to Fatboy Slim, and Prodigy too!
Aug 19, 2011 · Big beat was considered by some in the electronic community to represent a dumbing-down of dance music, though others claim it saved electronic music from wandering off the edges of...
Discussion. So I'm writing a small piece on big beat and while I've always been a big fan of the genre, I never really tried to research it, and even now except for the history of making (the fatboy slim's Big Beat club thing) the information on it is quite scarce. So my thesis is, big beat is essentialy a relict genre, which kind of emerged ...
