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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, recalling the work of legendary British session drummer Dougie Wright. Almost certainly influenced by the work of studio legend Dougie Wright, big beat tends to feature distorted, compressed breakbeat at moderate tempos (usually... full article at wikipedia
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