Undeas Recordings
| Big Beat Records | |
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| Parent company | Warner Music Group |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Craig Kallman |
| Distributor(s) | Atlantic Records |
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| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Official website | www |
Big Beat is an American electronic and dance music record label based in New York City. It was originally founded as an independent record label in 1987 by Craig Kallman with an emphasis on house music and, later, hip hop. It was absorbed into Atlantic Records in 1998, and eventually relaunched separately in 2010 as a primarily electronic music label. Its current roster includes acts like Skrillex, Galantis, Chromeo, Cash Cash, David Guetta, Clean Bandit, and others.
The first iteration of Big Beat Records was founded as an indie label in 1987 by Craig Kallman who was, at the time, a 22 year-old deejay in New York. The company initially operated out of Kallman's bedroom where he recorded the label's first track, "Join Hands" by Tara Vhonty. That record sold 5,000 copies largely through direct promotion at record stores by Kallman himself.
The second record Kallman recorded in his bedroom studio was titled "The Party" by Kraze which would go on to sell 250,000 units in the United States and internationally. Soon after, Kallman began focusing on developing the record label, signing acts like Tara Kemp and Jomanda over the following 3 years. He would sell Kemp's contract to Giant Records in 1991. Also that year, Jomanda released a record entitled "Got a Love for You" on Big Beat which attracted the attention of Doug Morris, the Co-Chairman of Atlantic Records at the time. Atlantic acquired Big Beat and made Kallman the Vice President of A&R while he still operated Big Beat.
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