Beats & Breaks
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Birmingham-based Mike
Stokes and Richard March
produce thematic
mainstream-friendly
Trip-Hop full of percussiv...
Mixing Rock guitars with
breakbeat-driven Acid and
Trance sounds, this LA
outfit have been hailed as
the American Prodigy.
Matt Black and Jonathon
Moore, together since the
mid-1980s, create a hybrid
of experimental and
electronic music. Black a...
Icey started to mix Acid
House and Breaks in the
early '90s. He soon
produced original works
that foreshadowed big be...
Though appearing late in
the life of big-beat (1996),
Dub Pistols remain a fiercely
powerful live act.
Recording under the alias
Fatboy Slim, British
DJ/producer Norman Cook
was one of the major
pioneers of big beat; he r...
Crossing the lines of hip-hop
and electronic, the
Freestylers fuse electro
and dancehall into their old
school style.
Brian Dougans and Gary
Cobain formed FSOL in 1989
and have since covered the
full spectrum of electronic
music. The duo started ou...
A huge name on the breaks
scene, Plump DJs, aka Lee
Rous and Andy Gardner, are
natural heirs to Fatboy
Slims crown.
Alex Gifford (keys, bass, DJ)
and Will White (drums, DJ)
play a hybrid of rock,
hip-hop and electronica.
Gifford (keyboards, saxop...
Tom Rowlands and Ed
Simons from Manchester
fuse progressive dance,
rock, and HI-NRG urban
beats. Originally called th...
Coming from the land of
hybridization (L.A.), this
duo fits right in with its
mainstream, multigenre
rocktronica. Jordan and...
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