Some interesting stuff in the comments box below about the origins of Big Beat. Obviously it’s a mongrel genre, but some interesting precedents – nice to remember Meat Beat Manifesto and some of the post-industrial stuff.

John Gosling, once of Psychic TV and Zoskia (who turns in a great appearance in the Keenan Book) was a.k.a. Mekon, on Wall of Sound.

Also the Chemical Brothers famously ripping of 23 Skidoo’s Coup. And errrrrrrr… oh I dunno.