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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 · Following on from a fantastic essay published last month by THUMP US—Jonny Coleman's rousing In Defence of Big Beat, the Annoying 90s Music Genre That Snobs Love to Hate—we've found ourselves ...
- Josh Baines
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Oct 14, 2016 · "[Big beat] started as a breath of fresh air, exciting and liberating," Skint label founder Damian Harris told the Guardian in 2008, "and ended up like the loud, annoying drunken bloke you really ...
Aug 19, 2011 · The Big Beat Revolution: 11 Essential Songs. August 19, 20111:00 PM ET. From. By. Michele Myers. Enlarge this image. Big Beat took its name from the "Big Beat Boutique," a dance night that Norman ...
- Michele Myers
This is a list of big beat artists, a genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns. Big beat achieved mainstream success during the 1990s and early 2000s, but declined in popularity by 2001.
Nov 13, 2015 · Billy Squier’s “The Big Beat” is a strange case of how the histories of hard rock and hip hop have intersected. There was already a precedent of breaks from songs like Thin Lizzy’s “Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed,” Babe Ruth’s “The Mexican” and The Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” being canonized in hip hop crates, along with the James Brown and Meters records ...
Apr 9, 2008 · Around 1995, dance music was going through a bloated, self-important phase. A purist mentality among DJs dominated and it was all a bit pompous and segregated. So a vacuum appeared for the people ...
