90s Big Beat

[purplex]

Does chemical brothers count?

they pretty much invented it

 

[dodgepot]

Who did that "Women Beat Your Men" track?

that was jon carter, as junior cartier. he also did "the dollar" as artery.

 

[Voley]

Shuffle found 'Electrobank' by the Chemical Brothers for me the other day. That still sounds pretty good - I always really liked the psychedelic bit at the end.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Death In Vegas were too.

 

[Voley]

Yeah, 'Contino Sessions' was good. 'Aisha' with Iggy Pop and all that. Good live, too. Saw them do a great gig at The Empire in Shepherds Bush once with lots of special guests - Jim Reid and, err, some others who I can no longer remember.

 

[Voley]

Iggy was meant to appear but missed his plane.

 

[A Dashing Blade]

"Info" on Chemical Reaction & Live At The Social available here

 

[Fozzie Bear]

possibly, although as i said, there was never really that much of it about... not to my memory anyway - there was wall of sound, skint and a few other small labels, and that was it.possibly this too. and 'nu skool breaks' took quite a lot of the main producers...

Yeah I think big beat's decline was a load of factors. I just remember the Skint nights getting rammed out and the idiot quotient going way up.

I was also reminded last night that it was good from the point of view of women not having to dress to the nines and not being hassled. Sorted women in trainers! But that changed as well.

I guess this was around new breaks coming in, which I generally thought was boring as fuck. We checked out clubs like sonic mook experiment and that one put on by the Kahuna Brothers. They weren't as good.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yeah, 'Contino Sessions' was good. 'Aisha' with Iggy Pop and all that. Good live, too. Saw them do a great gig at The Empire in Shepherds Bush once with lots of special guests - Jim Reid and, err, some others who I can no longer remember.

I like Dirt from the first album, with that sample from the announcer at Woodstock.

This is one thing that.. I was gonna wait a while before we talked about. Maybe we can talk about it now so you can think about it.. it's a free concert from now on. That doesn't mean that anything goes, what that means is we're going to put the music up here for free. What it means is that the people who're put -- backing this thing, who put up the money for it, are going to take a bit of a bath. A big bath. That's no hype, that's true, they're going to get hurt. What it means is that these people have it in their heads that your welfare is a hell of a lot more important, and that the music is, than the dollar. ... Now, the one major thing that you have to remember tonight,. when you go back up to the woods to go to sleep or if you stay here, is that the man next to you it your brother. And you damn well better treat each other that way because if you don't then we blow the whole thing, but we've got it, right there.

That's the full speech, but the single missed out the middle bit.

 

[hiccup]

I literally played this until the tape wore out:

1. Supa - Gonzalez, Kenny 'Dope' & The Mad Racket
2. He Ya Hey - Budha Baboons
3. Gucci Dance Live - Sam The Beast
4. I'm The Magnificent - Special Ed
5. Real McCoy (Ah Ah Ah) - Rankin' Don
6. Play Wit Fire - Yard Boy Ten
7. Bells Of NYC - Slo Moshun
8. That Other Hop Hop Track - Bitch (3)
9. Here Comes The Hotstepper - Kamoze, Ini
10. A Buen A Ting - DJ Doubles
11. Ain't Nothin' To It - K-9 Posse
12. Program - Morales, David & The Bad Yard Club/Papa San
13. Yeah - Audioweb
14. Come Togther - Transplant
15. Request The Style - Top Cat (1)
16. Peckings - Balistic Brothers
17. Opus 2 - Bass Bin Twins
18. Revenge Of The Mekon - Mekon & Mad Frankie Fraser
19. Everybody Thinks I'm High - DJ Voodoo & The Liquid Method
20. Sine Eye - Ragga Twins

 

[jusali]

Big beat meh!
I tend to file it in the same nosebleed as
Dubstep,
Acid techno
and to a lesser degree Goa Trance
Or dance music for the unimaginitive, in a nice way of course

 

[purplex]

I literally played this until the tape wore out:

1. Supa - Gonzalez, Kenny 'Dope' & The Mad Racket
2. He Ya Hey - Budha Baboons
3. Gucci Dance Live - Sam The Beast
4. I'm The Magnificent - Special Ed
5. Real McCoy (Ah Ah Ah) - Rankin' Don
6. Play Wit Fire - Yard Boy Ten
7. Bells Of NYC - Slo Moshun
8. That Other Hop Hop Track - Bitch (3)
9. Here Comes The Hotstepper - Kamoze, Ini
10. A Buen A Ting - DJ Doubles
11. Ain't Nothin' To It - K-9 Posse
12. Program - Morales, David & The Bad Yard Club/Papa San
13. Yeah - Audioweb
14. Come Togther - Transplant
15. Request The Style - Top Cat (1)
16. Peckings - Balistic Brothers
17. Opus 2 - Bass Bin Twins
18. Revenge Of The Mekon - Mekon & Mad Frankie Fraser
19. Everybody Thinks I'm High - DJ Voodoo & The Liquid Method
20. Sine Eye - Ragga Twins

Absolutely cracking album, a right mish mash, not big really beat though

 

[sam/phallocrat]

the freestylers remix of 'policeman skank' is still a stone cold classic...

as is their remix of wubble u's 'petal'

a true whirl-y-gig classic

'it's difficult these days . . . to get. good. grass.'

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Absolutely cracking album, a right mish mash, not big really beat though

Ah but big beat was a mish mash, that's where it came from. Even when it was a genre of its own the best dj sets were mad and eclectic.

I think it worked best as an approach or an attitude to playing records.

 

[killer b]

jon carter has brought out some cracking mix albums in his time... i also own(ed ) the aforementioned album, and can confirm it rules.

the fatboy slim 'on the floor...' mix was also utterly ruling...

 

[al]

Freestylers essential selection mix was fuckin' ace - remember it dearly..

 

[al]

and here it is..

http://www.imeem.com/groups/t3JD3b5O/music/SJvCOVHP/essential-mix-freestylers-essential-mix/

 

[Garcia Lorca]

that was jon carter, as junior cartier. he also did "the dollar" as artery.

also have a fucking amazin 12" of a song he done was it "electro boogie"?
cant remember exact name the now, but its a blinding tune

 

[Apathy]

a few acid breaks from early 90's

 

[killer b]

also have a fucking amazin 12" of a song he done was it "electro boogie"?
cant remember exact name the now, but its a blinding tune

it was a remix of 'break dance electric boogie' by the west street mob.

the original is better

although the junior cartier remix is pretty good... it just never gets going as much as it should.

his remix of mekon/roxanne shante's 'what's going on' is pure class though...

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Freestylers essential selection mix was fuckin' ace - remember it dearly..

What was the Freestylers one which went "... we're the new Freestylers"? That was a cracker.

 

[killer b]

hasn't done so far. rules though...

and here it is..

http://www.imeem.com/groups/t3JD3b5O/music/SJvCOVHP/essential-mix-freestylers-essential-mix/

 

[Cloo]

I still listen to this album quite a bit:

My old FSUK compilations haven't aged so well though.

That was a good 'un. Big Beat kind of became a rip-off of itself in fairly short order, IYSWIM, but it was fun while it lasted!

 

[ddraig]

What was the Freestylers one which went "... we're the new Freestylers"? That was a cracker.

ruffneck?

 

[monkeypig]

not really to tarnished with the same brush as fatboy

 

[killer b]

i thought the mighty dub katz - magic carpet ride still stands the test of time, come to think of it...

 

[dodgepot]

but was that actually big beat? there's so much stuff from around that time that just fell under the banner of "electic"

such a catch all term

 

[killer b]

of course it was... produced by norman cook, on his record label ffs.

quality tune anyway...

 

[pk]

i saw him once at the big beat boutique in the original concorde in brighton. he was fucking ace.

Used to go regularly, good times! Midfield General was just as good too.

 

[isitme]

midfield general was really good, same as kinobe. they only made a couple of tunes but a lot of talent

what are they doing now?