What it is, what to hear first, and what sits next to it.
Big beat is an electronic music genre characterised by heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns, similar to those found in acid house and techno. The term has been used by the British music industry to describe music by artists such as The Prodigy, the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, the Crystal Method, Propellerheads, Basement Jaxx, and Groove Armada. Big beat reached mainstream success during the 1990s, with its critical and commercial peak between 1995 and 1999. .