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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. The band used session vocalists on all their recordings. 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. Big Bang are Laurence Malice ( Trade nightclub founder) and Iain Williams (writer). The single was produced by Big Bang and Steev Toth.
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 was 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. In 1989, Iain Williams from the English electronic duo Big Bang coined the musical term big beat to describe the band's musical style. ‘Big Bang were a combination of everything prior and a signpost for what lay ahead.’ Based on the primary use of loud, heavy breakbeats and basslines, big beat shares attributes with jungle and drum and bass, but has a significantly slower tempo. As with several other dance genres at the time, the use of effects such as filters, phasing, and flanging was common in the genre.Ĭelebrated pioneers of the genre such as Fatboy Slim tend to feature heavily compressed loud breakbeats in their songs, which are used to define the music as much as any melodic hooks and sampled sounds.
Big beat tracks have a sound that includes crescendos, builds, drops, extended drum rolls, and sounds such as spoken word samples, dialogues from film and TV, additional instruments such as Middle Eastern strings or sitars, explosions, air horns, sirens (usually police sirens) and gunshots. They are often punctuated with punk-style vocals or rappers and driven by intense, distorted synthesizer basslines with conventional pop, house and techno song structures.
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