Big beatFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Big beat (sometimes chemical breaks) is a term devised in the mid 1990s by the British music press as a way of describing the work of
The Chemical Brothers, but was defined by the work of
Fatboy Slim. Big beat tend to feature distorted, compressed
breakbeats at moderate
tempos (usually between 110 to 136
beats per minute),
acidic synthesizer lines and heavy jazz loops. They are often punctuated with punkish-style vocals and driven by intense, distorted basslines with conventional
pop and
techno song structures. Big beat is also characterised by a strong psychedelic influence stemming from the influence of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin's breakbeats, and the
acid house musical movement.
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