Big Beat Style Overview

Big Beat Music Description

Breakbeat that is influenced by acid house. The name refers to the loud, bassy drum beats that make up the songs' beats and bass lines. It was one of the more commercially successful electronic styles of the 1990s, described perfectly by the Chemical Brothers as featuring 'block rockin' beats'.

A brasher cousin of the doped-out trip hop, the featuring of indie rock singers on a variety of big beat releases helped to make it an entry point to electronica for many people who had not yet succumbed.

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  Music For The Jilted Generation
  The Prodigy
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  The Fat Of The Land
  Prodigy*
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  Exit Planet Dust
  The Chemical Brothers
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  Dig Your Own Hole
  The Chemical Brothers
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  Surrender
  The Chemical Brothers
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  Post
  Björk
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  You've Come A Long Way, Baby
  Fatboy Slim

Big Beat Artists

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  Boom Boom Satellites
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  Propellerheads
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  The Chemical Brothers
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  Fatboy Slim
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  Lo-Fidelity Allstars
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  Apollo 440
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  The Prodigy

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  A.F.R.I.C.A.
  Stetsasonic Featuring The Reverend Jesse Jackson* With Olatunji* And The Drums Of Passion
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  Kiss
  Age Of Chance
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  Drill Your Own Hole
  Gaye Bykers On Acid
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  P.P. Pump That Bass
  Jammers
• Young Heart
  Jimmy Ruffin
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  S.O.S. Titanic
  White Star (3)
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  Hits All Over Europe
  Unknown Artist

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  Phun-Ky
  DJ Tonka
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  You Don't Know Me
  Armand Van Helden Featuring Duane Harden
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  Dub Be Good To Me
  Beats International
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  Remember Me
  The BlueBoy*
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  The Fat Of The Land
  Prodigy*
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  Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
  PM Dawn*
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  The Fat Of The Land
  Prodigy*