5 Albums to Get You Into BIG BEAT
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- Had talk about Big Beat in August! Stick these records on and get your groove on.
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TOP 5 ALBUMS TO GET YOU INTO BIG BEAT:
1) The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust (1995)
2) Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley Rhythm Ace (1997)
3) The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land (1997)
4) Fatboy Slim - You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (1998)
5) Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll (1998)
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BIG BEATS ARE THE BEST, GET HIGH ALL THE TIME
Did we write it down?
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS
THIS IS CONTAGIOUS
SOOOO FUTILE!
maybe i should get a tattoo, of my face yeaaa feel it
we're now Curse These Metal Hands
"The brothers gonna work it out" with those ominous horn blares in the background...
Might be one of the best opening seconds of a seminal record ever
There aren't many better things in life than dancing your body and heart out to a Prodigy live concert
Their new stuff is kinda shit though
We've only heard one full song from the new album, I believe it will be the best thing they've put out since FOTL.
😢
Nah, the MC won't shut the fuck up. ruins the music
great video as usual :)
I would also add The Crystal Method - Vegas to this list. not a British outfit like all the others on here but they fit very well into this scene
Crystal method are/is a great artist. But theyre more so techno or dance
indeed! top big beat album!
I love your reviews!
czcams.com/video/aLAOyX9H-SA/video.html it never went away
@@smilejenkins that album KILLS
i literally screamed when i saw the thumbnail
I thought it was the crab rave.
@@honeycomblord9384 same omg
It's good to hear someone talk about this genre and its influence. It opened up hearts and minds. At the time it really felt like something special was happening where rockers and ravers dropped the snobbines and embraced each other. Orbital, the Chems and the Prodigy were all massive at the summer festivals. It didn't matter if there wasn't a guitar in sight, they put on great shows. Dance music freed itself from the shackles of the DJ culture, because you could now write with live shows in mind rather than DJ sets. Rock music became more open to ideas from outside, and remains so today. There's a thread there that lead to nu-metal and its infusion of hip-hop and electronics. Unfortunately today people get all uppity when a rapper shows up at a festival.
I truly believe The Fat Of The Land is THE BEST electronic album ever.
*I have to celebrate you, Deep Cuts, I have to praise you like I shou ou ou ou ou ould...* Haha, yes! Oh my, it’s like I’m 21 again.. my entrance into to electronic music in my late teens/early 20s was Big Beat (save for Depeche Mode, and other 80s EBM shit I loved as a teen), and everything you’ve got here was on constant rotation for me, back then. I think you inspired me to pull out a few of my cd’s and have a big beat kind of day! (or, you know, look it up on Spotify) Fantastic work as always, Oliver! 🙏🏼✌🏼
PS - Only I’d have substituted “Dig Your Own Hole” over “Exit Planet Dust”, though they’re both great albums that I’ve listened to more times than I can count. The last track on that album, though, that shit was a perennial acid/shrooms/all psychedelics we took staple for a couple years of my life.. Sooo good! (“Private Psychedelic Reel” if I remember correctly)
The Private Psychedelic Reel is one of those larger-than-life tracks that are quite the experience. Something akin to that, yet in a slightly different setting is Juanita by Underworld.
Exit Planet Dust is IMO the best of these 5. Their psychedelic rock vibes, the cinematic and aura themes and homage to great music of other genres all whilst banging.
Propellerheads is so god damn good!! They dont get talked about enough
I'm only familiar with some of these, but I wasn't aware of the genre connecting them. Thanks so much for these! Can't wait to dig into them this week.
Also known as Electronica in the US. A lot of these acts were in the Astralwerks label.
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!
Also really great that we get a playlist with additional records to check out, i kinda missed that on the PE vid.
Great list yet again!
I'd have also chosen Vegas by The Crystal Method, essential Big Beat album. But nice list and video as always!
I too thought of that album when seeing the title
Yep. I came here to say the same thing. Good call.
Yeah, its a great record from the same time, but its mostly new synthesized beats, right - not sampled old ones.
God-tier list. Nothin' like a little bit of big beat
Bentley Rhythm Ace - massively underrated, don’t hear enough of them.
But I’m seeing them at Shiiine festival this year!
Prodigy is so sick
The Fat of the Land is my childhood
The Skoolmustard same
The Prodigy’s first three albums are all amazing (especially Music For The Jilted Generation in my opinion)
I wish they were talked about more. Jilted Generation is a banger and a classic
Thank you very much for this video. I've been a long time fan of Big Beat and your Albums are an excellent choice! Here's some of my own favs: The Crystal Method - Vegas, Supercharger - Saturday Night Special, Carlos Jean - Back to the Earth, Skeewiff - Cruise Control, Halfby - Side Farmers, Resonance - Resonation.
So pleased you included Bentley's BRA album on this list - I always thought this album, and group in general, never got the recognition they deserved, even within the scene.
Im a hip hop head but i will always say fatboy slim is the king of breaks. The stuff he samples and the way he uses it is nothing less than incredible.
This kind of music is what I grew up with. I think it's aged very well, still really energetic and fun.
As i rule i refuse to argue with anyone born after Firestarter came out.
A guide to Einstürzende Neubauten?
YES
This.
"Seeeehhhhhhnsucht…"
So happy to see Propellerheads shouted out. Take California is one of my favorite songs of all time
Nothing ever came close to Chemical Brothers & Prodigy... it still holds up today against most EDM, it was so creative and catchy at the same time
Crystal methods first album
As a teenager I was pretty much a rocker/metalhead, but I did like this kind of electronic music. I even bought the Fatboy Slim record, if I remember correctly. I just didn't know there was a name for it. Interesting video as usual. Thanks a lot!
Loving the Kermode quiff
if he doesn't know who his dad is he should probably get a paternity test, mans basically kermode's music obsessed bastard son
Absolutely love this one,fella ! Great vernacular, you explain an overlooked, incredibly fun scene that built it's core around non purist dance floor mayhem. Very toxic but loved by many. My best gig ever was at The Blackpool Empress Ballrooms with The Chemical Brothers supporting The Prodigy. Breaks heaven. Keep up the great work. Much appreciated, big fan. Thanks.
Hey Oliver, I just want to thank you for introducing me to Big Beat music.
I watched this years ago when I was 18 & was going through some dark headspace’s throughout the years since, but recently I dusted off these albums & they managed to kickstart the life in me that I had lost for so long.
Big beat (and breakbeat in general) has always been one of my less preferred dance genres/styles but it is undeniably significant and this is a good list of some of the best works of the genre.
Would love to see more 5 Album videos on dance music in the future 😀
No Crystal Method makes me sad af
Ur starting to look more like Jimmy Neutron every day
Brain Blast 0_0
Genial
I literally just found this channel today (so happy I did), so I don't know if you have done a video on this, but I was wondering if you ever do videos on "lighter music"? Like psycadelic, dream, shoegaze and weirder stuff in that type of genre. I notice you do a lot of like EDM and harder rock type stuff and the videos are so insightful. It's hard to find new music when the genres you like are so chill
With the death of Keith Flint, I had to come back and watch this. All I wanted in the late 90's was Big Beat. The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, and The Prodigy...what an exciting era to be a part of.
Sliced Tomatoes is the main riff of Rockefeller Skank
The "Funk Soul Brother" sample comes from Vinyl Dogs Vibe
Sound of my preteens! Fatboy slim, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Prodigy love them all!
I absolutely love big beat. It combines so much of the music i'm already a big fan of - funk, hip hop, alternative rock. And i'm also a fan of other 90s British electronica like trip hop and jungle - which big beat has some overlap with as they're all break beat based but in different tempos - big beat sitting right in the middle. Slower than jungle, faster than trip hop.
One of my favorites i wanted to mention: Hardknox only self-titled album from 1999. They're on the more aggressive side of the genre, similar to Prodigy. Very gritty and hard rock flavored with lots of hip hop elements with rapper guest spots, but also a clear dub reggae influence, as one of the two members was in Beats International before - same band Norman Cook was in. They were also on the Skint label and released singles on it since 1996.
Also, what some here have already mentioned, Crystal Method's first couple of records Vegas and Tweekend are both great ones you should check out. The only big beat group i know who are not British.
Great video as always! I would also love to see a ''5 albums to get you into industiral rock''.
R.I.P. Keith, thank you for everything....
I love all these guys, didnt even know it was a genre!! My favourite chem bros album is Lost In The K Hole though, it just feels like an improvement on everything EPD did
you forgot The prodigy's - Music for the jilted generation . Which came out a year before the chemical brothers album.
5 albums to get you in to plunderphonics would be sick my mans
Both the Prodigy and Fatboy Slim record were mentioned by The Garden on their Records in my Life episode
Excellent list. Can't believe I've not been exposed to neither Bentley Rhythm Aces nor PropellerHeads (atleast not by concrete album), so they're great listens. Love the more out-there, weird and off-kilter sound of BRA, while PropellerHeads is really like listening to something that invokes a deeply nostalgic feeling even if you've never heard it before. Awesome.
Also, wouldn't you also consider Fluke big-beat? A lot of their material can be tucked into that genre, I'd say. Same goes for a lot of the Wipeout-soundtrack artists.
The Big Beat Manifesto goes:
Big beats are the best, Get high all the time
No body can get near the prodigy for this shit. 30 years n still bangin
Just want to say thanks for this. I'm in love with this genre, and the Prodigy album is my new workout jam.
5 albums to get you into neo-folk, please..
Yes!
> gives you 5 death in june albums
mix it up with Current 93, Sol Invictus, Of the Wand and the Moon, Rome, Backworld, Darkwood, hell throw in Agalloch's The White EP and we've got quite the roster to pick from
When I'm stoned this channel is my favourite thing to watch
why wouldn't you prefer to listen to all the great music he suggests when stoned? music while stoned is the best
Subscribed because of this video. Exit Planet Dust made me do it, and yes I love Big Beat and Breaks.
I've never listened to big beat or maybe I have but haven't recognized it. I read something about it and thought it mentioned blast beats, but break beats make more sense lol
Bloody hell, this brought back some memories. Excellent analysis, mate. I'm enjoying starting to go through all your videos since I found your channel, but this one stirred some serious nostalgia.The hardest thing is choosing which video to watch next...
Fat Of The Land is easily the best on this list, a bit of techno, hip hop, industrial, punk and yet somehow it all sounds cohesive, like it just works. Genius. Personally I enjoy the first two albums a lot better - more breakbeat, less big beat but still...
Listen to Break and Enter all the way through, from beginning til the very end. It starts kinda ehh but it just builds and builds into something insane. It's Liam Howlett's magnum opus in my opinion. Guns n' Roses have November Rain, Led Zeppelin have Stairway to Heaven, The Prodigy has Break and Enter lol.
Ah The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land Album An Epic from start to finish if those beats don't wanna make you get off your ass and start moving your feet I don't know what would 😀
Does not really do that to me. To my ears it sounds dark and I just wanna sit down and really sock in that dark, all must industrial sound up.
Hey Man! I wondered when you would mention basement jaxx. I totally agree they have big beat influences considering how they began in that same part of the nineties. I am always bopping in my car to Romeo again and again. B. Jaxx are a staple in my local radio over across the pond. Loved the video sir!
Please do Drum and Bass and/or Jungle!
Los Chemical Brothers son mis artistas favoritos de música electrónica.
Don’t forget Freddy Fresh, cut la roc, hardknox, bassbin twins, freestylers
big beat is a fantastic genre i wish it would come back, some of the best english musicians were big beaters
5 great albums , I was there in spirit . . . down under
Thank you for the video. I am now into Big Beat big time :)
Let’s not forget Electro Glide in Blue by Apollo 440. Not only is it one of the best big beat records but its title track is one of the best tunes ever in all of music, never mind just big beat
Fat of Land was so fucking anticipated when I was a teenager. The Prodigy were the fucking best group in the world for us at that time.
Maybe a guide to dark ambient?
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS GUIDE WHEN?
One of my favorite electronic music genres
All brilliant albums
damn now i'm hella excited to listen to the fat of the land again
My only gripe about this video isn’t about the selection…but when you said “…Propellerheads did nothing after…” They went on to contribute in a HUGE way with their software! ReBirth, ReCycle and Reason were all ground breaking and landmarks in production software for producers!
I've always considered Depth Charge's (Jonathan Saul Kane) debut album, Nine Deadly Venoms & Death In Vegas's Dead Elvis as big beat
Timothy Barnett I have to agree with you there. That Depth Charge album is a corker!
I would have kicked out Prodigy and and replaced then with Lo Fidelity All Stars - the dark psy-funk side of Big Beat. Lost their way unfortunately.
Got to say i completely agree with these picks mate. Loved listening to all these records when i was a kid.
You're exactly correct that Bentley Rhythm Ace *is* big beat, and Basement Jaxx is more like commercial house. Kudos for including Propellerheads. I suppose we should say that Chemical Brothers dig your own hole has many great Big Beat tunes on it including Block Rockin' Beats.
I take pride in being a cocky know it all but I guess I should try to remember that it is a wise man that knows that he still has something to learn? You win. Sold. So what time does class start?
5 albums to get into contemporary r&b
Could you do a list on the MOST IMPORTANT/ INFLUENCIAL BRITISH ALBUMS , Possibly of the last decade if pos, I.E Chase & Status’ No More Idols or Skeptas Konichiwa etc ! That’d be sick.
Hiatus got that on shutdown..
I'm just happy I found out Propellerheads are finally on Spotify
The quiff is strong in this one!! 😘
Big UP to all true BIG BEAT lovers! That culture stiil alive! Check out our profiles at all world internet pages! Support from The Prodigy , The Crystal Method etc. Respect to Deep Cuts for this video!
I would love to see videos on house/Detroit techno, avant-garde or modernist classical music, early pre-Kraftwerk electronic music, hardcore punk, 80s alternative... or get real weird and do a zeuhl video. Magma, anyone?
Nowadays you still can find true big beat sound on a dedicated label called Criminal Tribe Records.
Hi Oliver. What do you think about doing a guide to Orbital? Since their new record is coming out next month. I think it would be really cool, since I've getting into it a lot lately. I'm planning to traveling to Estokholm to see them live!
Fatboy slim did some great big beat remixes of tunes at the time. These are a great example of how much big beats can supercharge a tune. Good examples can be found by comparing album track of Beastie Boys' Body Movin' with the fatboy slim remix. Groove Armada's I see you baby album track, with the fatboyslim remix, and hunting down cornershop's album track of Brimful of Asha. (to be fair, both versions of the latter sound great)
I'd like to add one to the list if I may: Risotto by Fluke. - An album that includes the stompers 'Absurd' (which was used in the soundtrack to Sin City) and the swaggering 'Atom Bomb', used in the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack. Other highlights including Squirt, Setback, Reeferendum...
Yup, that track is a great example!
Oh.. I just went to chemical brothers on Spotify, and realized where I know them from. They made the sound track for Hannah, and I remember just really digging that sound track.
5 Albums to get you into Death Metal...please
Well imma give you 5 you'll definitely like if the genre is for you in any way.
1- Death - Symbolic
2- Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
3- Immolation - Close to a World Below
4- Cryptopsy - None So Vile
5- Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Honorable Mentions
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Gorguts - Obscura
Cynic - Focus
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
These are all really among some of the most classic albums of the genre. If you like these, you could write again to this feed and I can recommend some more underground stuff too.
Fantano did one if you're interested
yeah!
@@evrimenustun9548 perfect list.
thx dude, glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you, Oliver
There was actually four members in the prodigy Leeroy Thornhill didn't leave until after Fat of the Land.
Lol.. I never knew the ‘94 anti-rave bill literally went after BPM, that’s absurd...
Glad you didn’t include Basement Jaxx btw. I agree, definitely not big beat. Their first three albums are fantastic, though, as are pretty much all of the first ten years of singles and EPs they released.. ✌🏼
Totally agree with "The Wonky Angle" here - TCM's "Vegas" should be here instead of Bentley Rhythm Ace. And Chemical Brothers were not the happy party music back then - that's what happened at the turn of the millenium, starting with "Hey Girl, Hey Boy" - to me, "Dig Your Own Hole" was more influential than "Exit Planet Dust". It was even darker than EPD and most of all: more experimental. They really really turned everything upside down on this one. So many times, when listening to this record, I thought "Can they really do that?" - well, I suppose they could.
I enjoyed this very much. Thank you! :)
GREAT Big Beat overview & love the list!
just found your channel, awedome stuff, always loved the fat of the land, so fucking good
I forgot I was subscribed to you, keep it up buddy
Hmmmmm....I was never very into Big Beat stuff, but if pushed my take would be ( and I am streching the definition of big beat):
1.Underworld: Second Toughest of the Infants
2. Leftfield: Leftism
3. Chemical Brothers: Dig Your Own Hole
4. Curve: Come Clean
5. The Prodigy: Music For The Gilted Generation.
The 90's were really top draw, one minute your listening to Ministry, Nine Inch Nails or Depeche Mode, next Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Wks 2 via Orbital, Future Sound of London, Radiohead, Swans, Joy Division and Massive Attack....
Dude, you absolutely nailed it. The mid to late 90's was an incredible time for music.
One of my favourite genres although I always just called it Break Beat Electronica.
LOVE big-beat, and looking to get into the genre further. Thank you for some of the recommendations (Decksanddrumsandrockandroll I already listened to... I cannot stress how much I *fucking love* that album).
I'd personally add Tweekend by The Crystal Method. I only got through the first half so far, but I'm digging it quite a lot!
(P.S. I miss these 5 Albums videos. Please make more in the future!)
Crystal Method - Vegas is their first and best album. If you haven't heard it, check it out.
Yeah, I have all those. Another good one is "Don't Be Daft" by Space Raiders. "Song For Dot" is great!
I really enjoy Bentley Rhythm Ace's sort of Looney Tunes cartoony style of Big Beat.
Dear Mr. Deep Cuts,
would you please be so kind as to name the band motorpsycho in one of your videos and maybe give an opinion about them?
It is one of those projects that isn't talked about enough, imho of course.
Also keep doing stuff, it makes my world better and has brought so many new flavours into my listening aswell as my playing!
Death in Vegas, another great Big Beat band
I'm crossing my fingers for a xiu xiu guide this year
Great video dude, been subbed since forever, keep making awesome videos!
_Skittering, snapping, snare sound_