"I
need a woman that rolls, I need someone who can roll with my arrangements"Mad
Breakbeats, Old Skool Grooves and Wacked Out Vocal loops.Big
Beat, Chemical Beats, not Skunk Rock, whatever you want to call it is the new 'big thing' for people in 'the know' but will it be just another Happy Hardcore? I Hope not, 'cos this stuff is my bag man.
Lover's
of this sort of tip, if they are based in the UK really should check out Miss Mary Anne Hobbs' Breeze Block on Radio1, damn it's the reason I piss off my parents and can never wake up in the morning, an hour of; mad beats, mental Drum 'n' Bass, classic and current abbrasive Hip Hop and some smart punkish rantings, serious nosebleed material.
OK
so labelling it all as 'Big Beat' is not quite fair this is a fairly new genre and some great acts which are tottaly different are being labelled under the same Big Beat Mushroom. Simon Lewin, manager of the Fused&Bruised label (check out 'This Is Latinamyl') would prefer to have it as [deep breath]
"agoodfornothingdirtylowslungskunkfunkingphatbeatbreakingsonicscienceaciddroppingfreakishtriphoppunkrocktypeo'shit"
Ok,
so maybe that's a bit drawn out to catch on as a label right? But everyone knows labels suck, and we all hate being pigeonholed, from the Trendies, Metalfreaks, and the Indiekids, they all hate being labelled.
Major
PlayersThe
big labels of big beat are:SKINTbentley
rythm ace, fatboy slim, midfield general, lo-fi allstars, cut la roc, hardknox
WALL OF SOUNDjon
carter, dirty beatniks, mekon,
FUSED&BRUISEDelite
force, subtropic, mild mannered janitors, pHrack
MENTIONS TO:FACTORYNINJA
TUNE
The
Big Names:Chemical
Brothers - The fathers of it all (sort of)
Stand out track: Electrobank - among others
Bentley Rythm Ace - Crazy name, crazy guys!?
Stand out track: Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out - among others
lo-fi Allstars - dirty mucky beats
Stand out track: Disco Machine Gun
Monkey Mafia - Blow the whole joint up with Jon Carter
Stand out track: Lion in the Hall
Prodigy - Big Scary beats, be afraid be very afraid
Stand out track: Diesal Power
Fatboy Slim - aka Norman Cook, rumoured to have a no hands DJ'ing style
Stand out track: Everybody Loves a Carnival
Death In Vegas - Richard Fearless' band
Stand out track: Dirt
The Big ClubsThe
Heavenly Social/Heavenly Jukebox
Where it all began: Turnmills. Clerkenwell Rd.
Big Beat Boutique
Skint hang out: Somewhere in Brighton (watch your backs)
Underclass
Fused, Bolshi + 3 other labels @ Mars, Thursday nights, central London
LINKS TO LABEL'S PAGESFUSED
AND BRUISED
SKINT
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