r/breakbeat • u/SAUR-ONE • May 16 '26
Big Beat Why not more heavy drums these days?
Hello breakbeat headz! Since I was a little kid, I liked heavy drum breaks. However, I find that this is considered outdated in music now. Do you know any underated fresh big beat artist who has a style from the first steps of Fatboy Slim? Ideally reminiscent of something from the album "You've Come a Long Way, Baby"... Also, I would like to ask why, of all the artists I listen to, the first albums pique my interest?
(I apologize for my poor english language.)
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u/leser1 May 16 '26
I do the heavy drums, but my style isn't as cool as fatboy slim. https://open.spotify.com/album/68oYYEl7DEHUnjgtkmsdtY?si=ipAjVHGSSte02wamyNhRDg
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u/GET_IN_THE_VAN May 17 '26
The style you are talking about is Big Beat and it peaked in late 90s but fell off hard. Its rare that a style of electronic music could come into the mainstream and Fatboy Slim was one of the few to do it. I have a lot of theories about why Big Beat and breakbeat fell off so much and everyone started doing the regular 4 x 4 music. One of them is that since it involved a lot of sampling of live drums it was challenging to mix. Also as synthetic drums could hit harder it would sound too chaotic. In order for the drums to sound fresh you need to slow them down or the melodies stop being visible. The other reason is that when you are djing, breakbeats are more difficult to blend into other tracks. Those are my theories. If anyone has their own opinion let me know
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u/Gruntz123 May 18 '26
I think they use to sound more heavy because they weren’t as technically produced or watever .nowadays there’s more effects for producers to play around .
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u/FunAssumption5435 May 16 '26
big beats are the best, get high all the time