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.

History

In 1989, Iain Williams from the London-based electronic duo Big Bang coined the musical term big beat to describe the band's sound. Williams explained the concept during an interview with the journalist Alex Gerry in an article published in the London magazine Metropolitan (issue 132, page 9, 6 June 1989) under the heading, Big Bang in Clubland - Could Big Beat be the 1989 answer to Acid House? The band were promoting their first record, an Arabic-inspired dance version of ABBA's "Voulez-Vous" and their instrumental track "Cold Nights in Cairo" that had just been released on Swanyard Records. The single was produced by Big Bang and Steev Toth. Big Bang are Laurence Malice (Trade nightclub founder) and Iain Williams (writer). The band's sound consisted of various experimental musical elements, including heavy drum beats and synthesizer-generated loops as well as an added suggestion of European influences that at times had a trance-like quality. The band used session vocalists on all their recordings. The concept of the big beat sound was later picked up on and adapted by many club DJs and went on to become widely used by many successful musicians throughout the 1990s.

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.

    History

    Big Beat was recorded at Mediasound studios, New York in August 1976. The album was the group's first album after breaking away from their English backing band. Instead the Mael Brothers used session musicians and hired Roxy Music contributor (Viva!) Sal Maida on bass, Tuff Darts guitarist Jeffrey Salen and Hilly Boy Michaels on drums. The release was their first for Columbia Records in the US. The album employed a much heavier and harder rock sound. Initially the Mael brothers had returned to work with the early Sparks member Earle Mankey. Together, they recorded the song "England", a song which bore much in common with the jaunty home-made and unusual sound that the three musicians had made together in the early 1970s. Conversely, Rupert Holmes and Jeffrey Lesser's production on the album was slicker and more direct and the resulting album displayed a more "American" AOR sound. This new "West Coast" sound was deemed a failure as Sparks felt the results were "bereft of personality".

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    Big Beat

    by: Sparks

    When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
    Oh yeah I'll tell you something I think you'll understand
    When I'll say that something, I wanna hold your hand
    I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand.
    Oh please say to me you'll let me be your man
    And please say to me you'll let me hold your hand
    Now let me hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand.
    And when I touch you, I feel happy inside
    It's such a feeling that my love, I can't hide
    I can't hide, I can't hide.
    Yeah you got that something, I think you'll understand
    When I feel that something, I wanna hold your hand
    I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand.
    And when I touch you, I feel happy inside
    It's such a feeling that my love, I can't hide
    I can't hide, I can't hide.
    Yeah you got that something, I think you'll understand
    When I feel that something, I wanna hold your hand
    I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand
    I wanna hold your hand.




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