Big Beat

Big beat (sometimes called chemical breaks) is a term deployed in the mid 1990s by the British music press to describe the music of The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, Propellerheads and The Prodigy that relied on beat-driven, drum-heavy mixes. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Junkie XL

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Jan 29 Friday 29 January 2010
Wild Child - A Tribue to the Doors at House of Blues Wildchild	House of Blues Anaheim, Los Angeles CA, United States 33.809489 -117.923244	1 person attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Jan 30 Saturday 30 January 2010
The Crystal Method at Vain Ultra Lounge The Crystal Method	Vain Ultra Lounge Detroit MI, United States	Add shout

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Jumpkov wrote:
November 2009

Fatboy slim And The Prodigy then loong nothing and then The Chmemical Brothers

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nullklever wrote:
October 2009

Big Beat rulez!!!

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Cordelliot wrote:
October 2009

Because they're tagging The Prodigy's songs that, and when they have their ID3 tags dodgy it gets pointed at some obscure rapper. Most of Prodigy's scrobbles/listeners are mis-tags for The Prodigy.

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Esquir3 wrote:
September 2009

why the hell people tag Prodigy (the rapper) by big beat? its obvious from the photo that it's not the band

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Unwiderruflich wrote:
August 2009

Fatboy Slim rocks!!!!!!!

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m1SeRY wrote:
August 2009

Fatboy Slim FTW!

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blogucuidei wrote:
August 2009

damn! this thing is the shit :D

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DJS1NF0N1K wrote:
August 2009

Best music EVAR!

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djbricksta wrote:
July 2009

The best genre of music ever

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namtastic wrote:
July 2009

Bentley's gonna sort you ALL out, I'm tellin' ya.

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rob-dougan wrote:
July 2009

I just love it. I can't help it

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Boel0911 wrote:
June 2009

Fatboy Slim the best in Hungary on 13. August in Sziget Festival:)))

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Oz_Alchemist wrote:
May 2009

Hi, I'm a new abstract and trip-hop composer, come check my page !

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Desolaterose wrote:
March 2009

Cool sound, need more of this type of music.

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Eolomea_Records wrote:
March 2009

Check out: http://www.last.fm/music/Diavola

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blklude wrote:
March 2009

fantastic genre for sure!

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Biritos wrote:
March 2009

ok FATBOY SLIM uno de los mejores ...divertido excelente...amazing!!!!!

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mizi303 wrote:
February 2009

Angelcrack - instrumental big-beat hiphop mentalEscape - post industrial big-beat

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Issla wrote:
February 2009

El mejor género de música!! (L)

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tinosoft89 wrote:
December 2008

http://www.last.fm/music/Tinosoft

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