Surely big beat lived / lives on in the US as 'breaks'? Although I'm not all that familiar with the output of Crystal Method, DJ Icey, Bassbin Twins, etc...what I have heard seems to use a similar template to the acts that recorded on Skint. Maybe a little more drug- than booze-oriented, but still pretty close. I'm not sure that it was necessarily a case of the sound being imported from the UK post '97 either...a Californian who I knew in Dublin in the mid-90s was playing a lot of fast, 303-laden, breakbeat stuff before anyone was talking about big beat. He'd show up at student parties where the other DJs were doing their best to replicate Billy Nasty's most recent set and nobody seemed to have a clue what the stuff he was playing was.