r/bigbeat • u/BockwurstBoi • 4d ago
The importance of music videos for little me in the early 2000s
these three videos are probably more important to my musical taste than anything else.
I remember watching all these on MTV Europe back in the days. the internet wasn't that big and music magazines mostly had adults as a target audience. later I got more into rap music and totally forgot the existence of Röyksopp and Chemical Brothers. I just didn't now about downtempo or trip hop as own genres. Gorillaz have always been kinda big so I never fully lost them.
later I rediscovered Poor Leno, insta bought Melody A.M., now one of my favourite LPs. after that the internet helped me find "the Video on this train track" I remembered from the past, now Chemical Brothers are one of my favourite artists and I am also a massive fan of Big Beat.
Its crazy to see that I really liked these styles of music as a child, have been away from them and now I am at the point where downtempo, trip hop and big beat are my favourite genres.
I would be interested if you had experienced something similar