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The sound of Big Beat brought electronic music to the mainstream because it was a successful hybrid of rock, breakbeat, and the art of the sampler, with screaming guitar riffs, larger than life breakbeats, and vocal samples skipping all over the place to create mad buildups. With beats this fat, there's no question why it's called BIG beat, and it's so big that eventually we were hearing them on car commercials and GAP commercials. Go figure. Without question, the king of the big beat castle would be none other than Norman Cook, more commonly known as Fatboy Slim. Everyone and their mom has heard the singles "Praise You" and "Rockafeller Skank." But I think that his remixes are his true crowning glory, like his takes on Underworld's "Born Slippy," and Groove Armada's "I See You Baby." I have a feeling his latest album "Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars" will not be as much of a Big Beat venture, but it will still have the signature Fatboy Slim festivity. But it shouldn't go without saying that The Chemical Brothers played a factor in the equation. Almost everyone and their mom has heard "Block Rockin' Beats" at one point or another. This duo of Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands, two blokes from Manchester, served up a bit of the same flavor with a bit of a different recipe, utilizing said fat beats, but more squelching acid lines, and rock samples.
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