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Big beat

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 and Fatboy Slim.

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Cultural origins
Early 1990s, London, England
Derivative forms
Nu skool breaks · New rave
Stylistic origins
Electronic · breakbeat hardcore · house · techno · rock
Typical instruments
Keyboards · turntables · synthesizer · guitars · bass

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related to Emerging (early 1990s) · 32
Big beat → Bentley Rhythm Ace, Big Beat Boutique, Brighton's Concorde, British, Britpop, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Damian Harris, Death, DJ-turned-artists, DJs, Dust Brothers, English, Friday, Harris's, Heavenly Records, In, Junior Boy's Own, Lionrock, Lo Fidelity Allstars
related to International success (1990s-early 2000s) · 27
Big beat → America, Australasia, Big, Billboard, Billboard Hot, Czech Republic, During, Europe, Finland, Firestarter, Hungary, July, Land, MTV Video Music Awards, Norway, Prodigy, Recording Industry Association, RIAA, Smack My Bitch Up, The Fat
related to Premise (late 1980s) · 24
Big beat → ABBA's, Acid House, Alex Gerry, Arabic-inspired, Big Bang, Cairo, Clubland, Cold Nights, Could Big Beat, DJs, English, European, Iain Williams, In, June, Laurence Malice, London, Metropolitan, Steev Toth, Swanyard Records
related to Further reading · 10
Big beat → Book, Bookazine Paperback, ISBN, Jul, July, New Haven Publishing Ltd, Rory Hoy, The, The Little Big Beat, The Story
related to Style · 9
Big beat → As, Based, Big, Celebrated, Fatboy Slim, Middle Eastern, Roland TB-303, They, TV
Typical instruments · 8
Big beat → bass, drums, guitars, Keyboards, sampler, sequencer, synthesizer, turntables
Stylistic origins · 7
Big beat → acid house, breakbeat hardcore, Electronic, hip hop, house, rock, techno
related to Earlier uses of the term · 6
Big beat → By, Eastern Bloc, Soviet Union, The, Unlike, Warsaw Pact
related to Decline (2001–present) · 3
Big beat → Chemical Brothers, Gatecrasher, The
Derivative forms · 2
Big beat → New rave, Nu skool breaks

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big beat music house 1990s chemical term number genre 1999 acid prodigy brothers fatboy electronic techno success 2001 breakbeats song

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Big beatDerivative formsNu skool breaks1.00infobox
Big beatDerivative formsNew rave1.00infobox
Big beatStylistic originsElectronic1.00infobox
Big beatStylistic originsbreakbeat hardcore1.00infobox
Big beatStylistic originshouse1.00infobox
Big beatStylistic originstechno1.00infobox
Big beatStylistic originsrock1.00infobox
Big beatStylistic originsacid house1.00infobox
Big beatStylistic originship hop1.00infobox
Big beatTypical instrumentsKeyboards1.00infobox
Big beatTypical instrumentsturntables1.00infobox
Big beatTypical instrumentssynthesizer1.00infobox
Big beatTypical instrumentsguitars1.00infobox
Big beatTypical instrumentsbass1.00infobox
Big beatTypical instrumentsdrums1.00infobox
Big beatTypical instrumentssequencer1.00infobox
Big beatTypical instrumentssampler1.00infobox
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