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Big Beat tends to feature distorted, compressed breakbeats at moderate tempos (usually between 90 to 140 beats per minute), acidic synthesizer lines and heavy loops from Jazz, Rock or 60's Pop.
Big Beat tends to feature distorted, compressed breakbeats at moderate tempos (usually between 90 to 140 beats per minute), acidic synthesizer lines and heavy loops from Jazz, Rock or 60's Pop.
They are often punctuated with punkish vocals and driven by intense, distorted bass lines with conventional pop and techno song structures. Big Beat tracks have a sound that include: crescendos, builds, drops, explosions, crowd-inciting drum rolls, and whooshing sounds that pan across the stereo-field.[1] Big beat is also characterised by a strong psychedelic influence stemming from the influence of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and the acid house musical movement. Particularly in the style of Fatboy Slim, the genre features a heavily compressed, thunderous drum sound (hence the name).
It can also contain off-the-wall samples such as explosions, police sirens and also can feature snippets of Turntablism. Big Beat is like "jungle's retarded cousin", both sharing frantic breaks, heavy bass, and an odd "jittery-rhythm" but big beat tends to have more simplistic loop beats than jungle.
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