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
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.
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'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.
*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.
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.
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 😀
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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...
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.
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!
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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?
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!)
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 😀
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.
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...
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!
Hey Oli, loved the video (and your channel in general actually). I'm not that big of a fan of the Big Beat movement, though Push The Button and Vegas (from The Crystal Method) are some of my favorite albums of all time. I also wanted to know if you heard Comaduster's Solace (has nothing to do with the first part of the comment). It's weird that almost no-one's heard it, even if it's definitely one of the best records of 2017. Might wanna check it out, especially when another Comaduster album will come out as part of the Solace universe. I'm not asking for a review, just wanting you to hear a very VERY underrated album...
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
Experience has always been my favourite Prodigy album. It’s undeniably less polished than the others but I prefer the heavy influence of hardcore edm styles on it
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
Shame that crystal method is not in your top 5 list. Their album Vegas sets the standard to this genre until this day and tracks from this album were used in blockbuster action movies.
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.. ✌🏼
BIG BEATS ARE THE BEST, GET HIGH ALL THE TIME
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS
THIS IS CONTAGIOUS
SOOOO FUTILE!
we're now Curse These Metal Hands
just a nice relaxing smoke of crack
Big beat manifesto❤️🥰
"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
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!
th-cam.com/video/aLAOyX9H-SA/w-d-xo.html it never went away
@@smilejenkins that album KILLS
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
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.
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'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.
*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.
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.
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.
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.
I truly believe The Fat Of The Land is THE BEST electronic album ever.
Propellerheads is so god damn good!! They dont get talked about enough
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.
Bentley Rhythm Ace - massively underrated, don’t hear enough of them.
But I’m seeing them at Shiiine festival this year!
I forgot I was subscribed to you, keep it up buddy
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.
God-tier list. Nothin' like a little bit of big beat
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.
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
So happy to see Propellerheads shouted out. Take California is one of my favorite songs of all time
Prodigy is so sick
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 😀
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!
This kind of music is what I grew up with. I think it's aged very well, still really energetic and fun.
No body can get near the prodigy for this shit. 30 years n still bangin
Great video as always! I would also love to see a ''5 albums to get you into industiral rock''.
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.
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
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
A guide to Einstürzende Neubauten?
YES
This.
"Seeeehhhhhhnsucht…"
As i rule i refuse to argue with anyone born after Firestarter came out.
Just want to say thanks for this. I'm in love with this genre, and the Prodigy album is my new workout jam.
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.
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...
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
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.
Please do Drum and Bass and/or Jungle!
Thank you for the video. I am now into Big Beat big time :)
Sound of my preteens! Fatboy slim, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Prodigy love them all!
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
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.
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!
Got to say i completely agree with these picks mate. Loved listening to all these records when i was a kid.
Sliced Tomatoes is the main riff of Rockefeller Skank
The "Funk Soul Brother" sample comes from Vinyl Dogs Vibe
5 albums to get you in to plunderphonics would be sick my mans
R.I.P. Keith, thank you for everything....
Both the Prodigy and Fatboy Slim record were mentioned by The Garden on their Records in my Life episode
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?
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.
No Crystal Method makes me sad af
5 great albums , I was there in spirit . . . down under
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
you forgot The prodigy's - Music for the jilted generation . Which came out a year before the chemical brothers album.
I'm just happy I found out Propellerheads are finally on Spotify
GREAT Big Beat overview & love the list!
The Big Beat Manifesto goes:
Big beats are the best, Get high all the time
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.
damn now i'm hella excited to listen to the fat of the land again
I enjoyed this very much. Thank you! :)
Great video dude, been subbed since forever, keep making awesome videos!
big beat is a fantastic genre i wish it would come back, some of the best english musicians were big beaters
just found your channel, awedome stuff, always loved the fat of the land, so fucking good
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.
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!
can we get a big beat resurgence please
Nowadays you still can find true big beat sound on a dedicated label called Criminal Tribe Records.
One of my favorite electronic music genres
All brilliant albums
Daaaamn, Imma check all of these out
Los Chemical Brothers son mis artistas favoritos de música electrónica.
One of my favourite genres although I always just called it Break Beat Electronica.
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!
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.
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!
Thank you, Oliver
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 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?
Love propellerheads, great rec
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.
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.
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.
The quiff is strong in this one!! 😘
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!
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.
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!
Wasn't Leftfield considered Big Beat? I always thought Open Up kind of paved the way for what Prodigy would later do.
Hey Oli, loved the video (and your channel in general actually). I'm not that big of a fan of the Big Beat movement, though Push The Button and Vegas (from The Crystal Method) are some of my favorite albums of all time.
I also wanted to know if you heard Comaduster's Solace (has nothing to do with the first part of the comment). It's weird that almost no-one's heard it, even if it's definitely one of the best records of 2017. Might wanna check it out, especially when another Comaduster album will come out as part of the Solace universe. I'm not asking for a review, just wanting you to hear a very VERY underrated album...
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
What do you think of Experience and MFTJG? I always preferred both over Fat of the Land.
vlad jilted generation my favourite album full stop. So many bangers. Genuinely exciting music.
break and enter, their law, full throttle, voodoo people, speedway, poison, no good, one love, 3 kilos, skylined..... INSANE album
Experience has always been my favourite Prodigy album. It’s undeniably less polished than the others but I prefer the heavy influence of hardcore edm styles on it
TFOTL>MFTJG>Experience for me.
It would be cool to see a gear rundown of your music equipment
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
Maybe a guide to dark ambient?
NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS GUIDE WHEN?
Pleaseeeeee 5 albums to get you into art pop 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 or art rock 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Shame that crystal method is not in your top 5 list. Their album Vegas sets the standard to this genre until this day and tracks from this album were used in blockbuster action movies.
Fantastic album thats still listenable in 2023
5 albums to get into contemporary r&b
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.. ✌🏼
Loved House, Big Beat, break beats! What's big room music?
Not sure if it's commonly considered as bigbeat, but for me Amon Tobin killed it with Sordid and 4 ton mantis