Fatboy Slim
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The Greatest Hits - Why Try Harder
All the best from the lord of the big beat for more than a decade, British DJ Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, has bridged the gap between break beats and silly little pop songs better than anyone. This smartly compiled best-of showcases Cook's late-Nineties hits ("Praise You"); stupid-fun bangers with whimsical, gratuitously repeated vocal samples […]
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Palookaville
Fatboy Slim's late-nineties hits "Praise You" and "The Rockafeller Skank" may be fading into K-tel memory, but the all-star DJ is still happily exchanging any one-way ticket to Palookaville for lucrative round trips to Ibiza. Four years after his spiritually inclined Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, Fatboy hasn't stopped pandering to his core […]
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The Pimp
In techno music, a remix can be either a rebirth or a waste of good studio time. There's more of the former on these three EPs of reworkings of stuff from Fatboy Slim's 2000 CD Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. The standouts include Timo Maas' breakdown of "Star 69," which he reimagines as […]
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Illuminati
In techno music, a remix can be either a rebirth or a waste of good studio time. There's more of the former on these three EPs of reworkings of stuff from Fatboy Slim's 2000 CD Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. The standouts include Timo Maas' breakdown of "Star 69," which he reimagines as […]
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Camber Sands
In techno music, a remix can be either a rebirth or a waste of good studio time. There's more of the former on these three EPs of reworkings of stuff from Fatboy Slim's 2000 CD Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. The standouts include Timo Maas' breakdown of "Star 69," which he reimagines as […]
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Live On Brighton Beach
The more that dance music insists on minimalism, the more tired it gets, as coherent lyrics, hefty melodies, hook-y song structure and fleshy arrangements are removed from the groove. Norman Cook has for years proved his ability to ingenuously make that little bit go a long way with his Fatboy Slim records and DJ gigs, […]
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Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars
Where other electronica whizzes chase dance microgenres down futuristic blind alleys, Norman "Fatboy Slim" Cook mines riffs from every era like a hip-hop DJ. His big beat kicks down the velvet-rope exclusivity of drum-and-bass or two-step garage to welcome everyone, rockers and funkers included. "I'm gonna hold my cool, 'cause the music rules," P-Funk's Bootsy […]
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On The Floor At The Boutique
I never worked a day in my life, goes the vocal sample that opens Fatboy Slim's new mix compilation. "I just laid back and let the big beat lead me." On the Floor at the Boutique draws the listener through one of Fatboy's notoriously body-moving DJ sets. One of his biggest hits, "The Rockafeller Skank," […]
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You've Come A Long Way, Baby
The ascendancy of Norman Cook — in the guise of Fatboy Slim — has to amuse anyone for whom techno's countless variants constitute one corner of the musical universe rather than a brave new world. The Housemartins bassist turned DJ'ing mix master has been collaging up silly pop songs since Beats International's excellent 1990 album, […]
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Better Living Through Chemistry
Ask any wedding DJ: People aren't very adventurous when they want to dance. It's nice to talk about some electronic music future, but Aphex Twin clears most dance floors faster than you can say, "Heck no to techno." For his part, Fatboy Slim — a k a Norman Cook, a British DJ and producer who […]
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