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Big Beat (other)
Big beat is an electronic music genre. Big beat may also refer to: * Big beat, in the 1950s, later to be known as beat music * Big-beat (Eastern Bloc), a name for rock and roll and relative genres in Central Europe in 1960s * ''Big Beat'' (film), a 1993 Czech musical comedy film * ''Big Beat'' (album), by Sparks, 1976 * Big Beat Records (British record label), specializing in garage rock * Big Beat Records (American record label) Big Beat Records, Inc. is an American electronic and dance music record label, owned by Warner Music Group and operates through Atlantic Records. It was founded as an independent record label in 1986 by Craig Kallman with an emphasis on house mu ..., specializing in electronic and dance music * '' Big Beat from Badsville'', an album by the Cramps, 1997 See also * The Big Beat (other) {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Beat
Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/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 achieved mainstream success during the 1990s, and achieved its critical and commercial peak between 1995 and 1999, with releases such The Chemical Brothers’ Dig Your Own Hole, Prodigy’s Fat of the Land, and Fatboy Slim’s You've Come a Long Way, Baby, before quickly declining from 2000 onwards. Style Big beat features heavy and distorted drum beats at tempos between 100 and 140 beats per minute, Roland TB-303 synthesizer lines resembling those of acid house, and heavy loops from 1960s and 1970s funk, soul, jazz, and rock songs. They are often punctuated with punk-style vocals or rappers and driven by in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Music
Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre that developed, particularly in and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from American rock and roll, rhythm and blues, skiffle, traditional pop and music hall. It rose to mainstream popularity in the UK and Europe by 1963 before spreading to the North America in 1964 with the British Invasion. The beat style had a significant impact on popular music and youth culture, from 1960s movements such as garage rock, folk rock and psychedelic music to 1970s punk rock and 1990s Britpop. Origin The exact origins of the terms 'beat music' and 'Merseybeat' are uncertain. The "beat" in each, however, derived from the driving rhythms which the bands had adopted from their rock and roll, R&B and soul music influences, rather than the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. As the initial wave of rock and roll subsided in the later 1950s, "big beat" music, later sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big-beat (Eastern Bloc)
Big-beat (also called 'big beat' or bigbit) is a term used in Eastern Bloc countries in the 1960s to cover rock and roll and related genres, as the original name was not approved by authorities in those nations (the USSR and its satellite states in the Warsaw Pact). Background Genres of American origin, such as jazz, twist, and especially rock and roll were banned or at least hardly tolerated in Eastern Bloc countries in the mid-20th century. Such music was considered to be an element of American imperialism. Despite the official attitude, a number of jazz bands formed in the Eastern Bloc. In the 1950s, these bands included rock and roll elements in their performances. The first Polish band that officially played rock and roll was Rhythm and Blues, formed in 1959, and they were forced by the authorities to disband a year later. The manager of Rhythm and Blues, Franciszek Walicki, to avoid the term ''rock and roll'', coined the term "big-beat" to refer to the band's music. In Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Beat (film)
''Big Beat'' ( cz, Šakalí léta) is a 1993 Czech musical comedy directed by Jan Hřebejk. It is set in 1959 in Prague's Hotel International. The film was Hřebejk's breakthrough box-office hit and the first feature film made by Hřebejk and Petr Jarchovsky as a directing-writing team. Jarchovsky wrote the script based on a story by Petr Šabach. The music and lyrics were written for the film by singer-songwriter Ivan Hlas, and veteran cameraman Jan Malir also worked on the film. The film won four Czech Lion awards, including Best Film of 1993, Best Director (Hřebejk), Best Actor ( Josef Abrhám) and Best Original Score. Plot The film is set in 1959 in and around the Hotel International. A young man calling himself "Baby" ( Martin Dejdar) arrives at the home of Prokop ( Josef Abrhám) and his family, ostensibly to care for their mutual elderly relative. Baby wears eccentric clothes, plays guitar, and has a passion for rock 'n' roll, and quickly starts to disrupt the live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Beat (album)
''Big Beat'' is the sixth album by American rock band Sparks, released in 1976. History ''Big Beat'' was recorded at Mediasound Studios, New York City in August 1976. The album was the group's first album after breaking away from their English backing band and returning to America. Instead, the Mael Brothers used session musicians and hired former Milk 'N' Cookies bassist, and Roxy Music contributor ('' Viva!''), Sal Maida on bass, Tuff Darts guitarist Jeffrey Salen and Hilly Boy Michaels on drums. The release was their first for Columbia Records in the US. The album employed a much heavier and harder rock sound. Initially, the Mael brothers had returned to work with the early Sparks member Earle Mankey. Together, they recorded the song "England", a song which bore much in common with the jaunty home-made and unusual sound that the three musicians had made together in the early 1970s. Conversely, Rupert Holmes and Jeffrey Lesser's production on the album was slicker and more dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Beat Records (British Record Label)
Big Beat Records is a British record label and import distributor owned by Ace Records, specialising in garage rock.David Stubbs, Rob Young ''Ace Records: Labels Unlimited'' 2008 Page 87 Another example of the type of group Big Beat worked with was The Stingrays. As Alec Palao, the American-based English expat, one time member of the band and subsequent Ace consultant, recalls: "The band was an amalgam of everything we were into, be it rockabilly, garage punk, 1970s punk, surf, northern soul, folk-rock; we were omnivores." The Stingrays were the classic example of a band who had supersized on Ace's ever-increasing and eclectic output of lost music. Roster Releases include: *The Ace of Cups *Big Star * Dean Carter *The Chocolate Watchband *Count Five * Creedence Clearwater Revival *The Cramps * The Damned *Fifty Foot Hose *The Flaming Stars *Frumious Bandersnatch *The Fugs *Guana Batz * Dan Hicks *Bert Jansch * Janie Jones & the Lash * Larry and the Blue Notes *Mahogany Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Beat Records (American Record Label)
Big Beat Records, Inc. is an American electronic and dance music record label, owned by Warner Music Group and operates through Atlantic Records. It was founded as an independent record label in 1986 by Craig Kallman with an emphasis on house music, and later hip hop. It was absorbed into Atlantic Records in 1998, and eventually relaunched separately in 2010 as a primarily electronic music label. Its current roster includes Dog Blood, Galantis, Whethan, Cash Cash, and Clean Bandit. History 1987–1998: Original Big Beat The first iteration of Big Beat was founded as an Independent record label in 1987 by Craig Kallman who was, at the time, a 20-year-old deejay in New York City. The company initially operated out of Kallman's bedroom where he recorded the label's first track, "Join Hands" by Tara Vhonty. That record sold 5,000 copies largely through direct promotion at record stores by Kallman himself. The second record Kallman recorded in his bedroom studio was titled "The Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Beat From Badsville
''Big Beat from Badsville'' is the seventh studio album by the American rock band the Cramps. It was released in 1997 on Epitaph Records. The album was recorded and mixed at engineer Earle Mankey's house in Thousand Oaks, California, in May 1997. It was produced by Poison Ivy and Lux Interior. It is the only Cramps album to consist solely of original songs. The Cramps reissued the album on their own record label, Vengeance Records, in 2001 with four bonus tracks: "Confessions of a Psycho Cat", "No Club Lone Wolf", "I Walked All Night" and "Peter Gunn". Track listing Personnel ;The Cramps * Lux Interior - vocals * Poison Ivy Rorschach - guitars, theremin * Slim Chance - bass guitar * Harry Drumdini - drums ;Technical *Earle Mankey Earle Mankey (sometimes misspelled "Earl" in credits) (born March 8, 1947, in Washington, United States) is an American musician, record producer and audio engineer. He was a founding member and guitarist for the band Halfnelson, later call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
