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Big beat features heavy and distorted drum beats at tempos between 100 and 140 beats per minute, Roland TB-303 synthesizer lines resembling those of acid house, and heavy loops from 1960s and 1970s funk, soul, jazz, and rock songs.
After the streams we got 300 top/best big beat tracks of the 90s. I decided to make 10 mixes from it! The purpose of this collection to collect more names, r...
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Feb 28, 2013 · In the ’90s you couldn’t escape Big Beat, and with good reason — under its umbrella, there were jams upon jams upon megajams. And these are ten of the best big beat singles of the bunch.
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Aug 19, 2011 · 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...
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The sound of big beat, a rather shameless fusion of old-school party breakbeats with appropriately off-the-wall samples, was reminiscent of house music's sampladelic phase of the late '80s as well as old-school rap and its penchant for silly samples and irresistible breaks.
Big beat—an expression of ’90s dance music at its most crowd-pleasingly boisterous—was always upfront about its intentions. Its philosophy was right there in the name: The bigger the beats, the better.
