Along with Fatboy Slim , The Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method , as well as other acts , members of the Prodigy have been said as founders of the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s . Along with Fatboy Slim and The Chemical Brothers , as well as other acts , members of the Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s .