Smuggled Sounds: FatBoy Slim: Brighton Big Beat

Fatboy Slim is an English musician in the dance music genre. His style is known as big beat, a combination of hip hop, breakbeat, rock, trance, house and rhythm and blues. He stopped using 'Quentin' and began calling himself 'Norman' long before he adopted any other pseudonym.

The Fatboy Slim album Better Living Through Chemistry (released through Skint Records) marked Cook's emergence into the big time. Filled with retro samples and funk-laden grooves, the album was among the first in the then-new big beat sound. It also spawned one Top 40 UK hit, "Everybody Needs a 303". After Cook's remix of Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha" topped the charts, such musical heavy hitters as Madonna and U2 asked him to produce for them.

Fatboy Slim's next work was the single "The Rockafeller Skank" which was released prior to the album You've Come a Long FBS002 Way, Baby, both of which came out in 1998 to rave reviews. This album also produced the single "Praise You", which also became a major dance hit, giving Cook his first UK solo number one. Its video, directed by Spike Jonze, won numerous awards. Further Fatboy Slim works have appeared in movies, television series, and more ads and started a trend where Norman Cook appeared in each video in some shape or form.

Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars was released in 2000 and featured two collaborations with Macy Gray. It also included "Sunset (Bird of Prey)", a slower tempo piece based around a sample of Jim Morrison from The Doors, and "Weapon of Choice", which also boasted an award-winning video starring Christopher Walken.

FatBoy Slim – Live at the metro Chicago circa Y2K

Set1

Alan Braxe - Vertigo FBS004 Bassbin Twins - Out of Hand Wubble u - Petal (Freestylers mix) Wildchild - Renegade Master Josh Wink vs Public Enemy - Higher State of Noise DJ Stew feat. Buddha - Funky Fresh DJ Tonka - Phun-ky Progress Funk - Around My Brain (Miami by Night mix) Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook original remix) Fatboy Slim - Going Out of My Head Lionrock - Rude Boy Rock ??? - ??? Art of Noise -Metaforce FBS005 ??? - ??? Groovezone - Eisbaer The Prodigy - Out of Space Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank

Set2

Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank Fatboy Slim - Everybody Loves a Carnival Bassbin Twins - Stick 'Em FBS006 ??? - ??? ??? - ??? ??? - ??? ??? - ??? CLS - Forget It ??? - ??? ??? - ??? ??? - ??? Daft Punk - Da Funk (Chemical Brothers remix) ??? - ??? ??? - ??? ??? - ??? Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit ??? - ??? Fatboy Slim - Michael Jackson