Big beat established templates for arena-scale electronic music that later genres (brostep, EDM) inherited

Big beat established several templates for mainstream electronic music: the arena rock format for DJ/producer acts (Chemical Brothers doing bombastic live light shows, treating a dance LP like a rock LP — what Daft Punk later got credit for); the big build-and-drop structure; the “sample anything” style; the idea that electronic music was main-stage material. The article argues Chemical Brothers did the Daft Punk live-show aesthetic first, and that Daft Punk’s debut Homework is essentially big beat. Big beat also primed the path for blog house, brostep, trap, and artists like Justice and Diplo — its “ghost” still hanging over electronic music in 2016. Understanding this lineage explains why apparently new EDM trends often replay structural moves (breakbeats compressed → drops, stadium spectacle, sampling pop songs) that big beat codified.

Examples

Daft Punk’s “Da Funk” resembles Chemical Brothers’ mid-tempo heavy beats. Justice’s cross-shaped-LED aesthetic and compressed rock-electronic sound echoes big beat arena-rock pretensions. Diplo’s eclectic sampling and big drops trace to big beat’s plunderphonic formula.

Assessment

Identify two specific production or performance conventions that big beat established and that a later genre (name it) directly inherited; then explain why Chemical Brothers preceded Daft Punk in defining the “rock LP for dance music” format.