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big beat

n. A form of pop music having distorted breakbeats at a moderate tempo

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Big beat (disambiguation)

The term big beat may refer to:

  • big beat, a term deployed in the mid-1990s by the British music press to describe a style of electronic music
  • big beat, a subgenre of 1960s beat music
  • Big Beat (album), an album by Sparks
  • Big Beat Records (Ace Records subsidiary), a British record label and import distributor specializing in garage-rock music
  • Big Beat Records (Atlantic Records subsidiary), an American hip-hop and dance-music record label

See also The Big Beat (disambiguation).

Big Beat (album)

Big Beat is the sixth album by American rock band Sparks, released in 1976.

Big beat

Big beat is a style of electronic music that typically uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns common to acid house. The term has been used since the mid-1990s by the British music press to describe music by artists such as The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, Propellerheads, Cut La Roc, Basement Jaxx and Groove Armada.

Big Beat (film)

Big Beat is Czech musical comedy of Jan Hřebejk from 1993. It take place at 1959 in Prague's Hotel International.

Usage examples of "big beat".

Most of the time I stayed with the portable and the car was filled with the sounds of big beat, gospel, ghetto soul, jug bands and dirt bands, effete near-lisping college rock, electric obscenity and doom, wild fiddles of Nashville, ouds and tambourines and lusting drums, and then with night I would twirl the dials to hunt for jazz, and with luck I'd catch a scrap of catatonic Monk, or Sun Ra colliding with antimatter, and some note would pin together pieces of the spreading night and it would all make sense for a moment, the mad harmonics bringing most of what was sane to those who ran with death .