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   Big beat

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   • 1. popular music with a steady, prominent beat: "had my big beat box and I was jammin'"

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2. • Electronic music genre

     • Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house / techno.
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   What is Big Beat music?

   • Big beat is a style of electronic dance music built around heavy drum beats, breakbeat samples, distorted synth basslines, and sound effects. Leading big beat artists like Fatboy Slim, the Prodigy, Propellerheads, and the Chemical Brothers have drawn inspiration from earlier forms of electronica as well as hip-hop, funk, and rock music.

   Big Beat Music Guide: 4 Characteristics of Big Beat Music

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   Why is club music called Big Beat?

   • 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. Oops, something went wrong... What Is Big Beat? Big beat is a style of electronic dance music built around heavy drum beats, breakbeat samples, distorted synth basslines, and sound effects.

   Big Beat Music Guide: 4 Characteristics of Big Beat Music

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   Why is big beat so popular?

   • 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 experimentation. Britain quickly embraced the trend, and the style managed to briefly cross over into the American mainstream.

   The Big Beat Revolution: 11 Essential Songs : NPR

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   How did big beat get its name?

   • 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 1990s, when raves had become commonplace in London's underground electronic music scene, a faction of U.K. DJs decided to try something new.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Big_beatBig beat - Wikipedia

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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 ...

   • Cultural origins: Early 1990s, London, England

5. www.masterclass.com › articles › big-beat-music-guideBig Beat Music Guide: 4 Characteristics of Big Beat Music

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   Jun 7, 2021 · 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.

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7. www.npr.org › 2011/08/19 › 139754112The Big Beat Revolution: 11 Essential Songs : NPR

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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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8. www.vice.com › en › articleIn Defense of Big Beat, the Annoying 90s Music Genre That ...

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   Oct 14, 2016 · Advertisement. So what, pray tell, is big beat? The big beat sound came out of England in the early to mid-90s against the backdrop of the UK rave scene, with artists like The Chemical...

9. www.musicradar.com › news › beat-building-how-toBeat Building: how to make a Big Beat beat | MusicRadar

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   Aug 19, 2022 · News. Beat Building: how to make a Big Beat beat. By Future Music. ( Computer Music ) published 19 August 2022. Learn how to build big Big Beat beats in our Beat Building series of tutorials. Now that's a tongue twister! (Image credit: Getty Images)

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11. www.allmusic.com › style › big-beat-ma0000004997Big Beat Music Style Overview | AllMusic

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    Big Beat. Rescuing the electronica community from a near fall off the edge of its experimental fringe, Big Beat emerged in the mid-'90s as the next wave of big dumb dance music.

12. www.vice.com › en › articleWe Got Three Big Beat Producers from Back in the Day to ...

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    Nov 8, 2016 · Big beat was a genre of electronic music that typically used heavy breakbeats and synthesiser-generated loops common to acid house," then congratulations, you're probably about 37, or you...