The Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook Collection
A high-energy retrospective of Norman Cook’s evolution, blending dusty funk samples, heavy breakbeats, and celebratory club anthems into a definitive big beat collage.
March 21, 2000 · Hip-O Records
A high-energy retrospective of Norman Cook’s evolution, blending dusty funk samples, heavy breakbeats, and celebratory club anthems into a definitive big beat collage.
March 21, 2000 · Hip-O Records
This collection is a kaleidoscope of 20th-century music history fed through a sampler. It feels like a sunny day in Brighton, smelling of salt air and old vinyl. The beats are chunky and unpolished, carrying the warmth of the soul and funk records they were pilfered from. The production is characterized by a certain crustiness, a love for the hiss of a sampled 45 and the punch of a compressed kick drum. It is music that feels hand-made despite being constructed on computers and samplers. You can hear the joy of discovery in every bar, as if Cook is just as surprised as the listener that these disparate elements fit together so perfectly.
How does The Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook Collection sound next to the rest of Fatboy Slim's catalogue?
Joyful saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.
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