Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saturday, Big Green punter Wayne Schlobohm took a snap in Dartmouth territory off one hop but could not get off a kick and carried left. The ball inexplicably popped out, Garo Yepremian style, with the nearest defender several yards away...
First, why would anyone want to get rid of his old reliable videotape player? For the same reasons that music lovers upgraded from record players to audio CDs: superior quality, compact storage and the ability to hop quickly to a precise spot in the programming. I've been trying out a Panasonic DVD A310 ($599), and am surprised that the picture really does look twice as good as those blurry images my half-as-expensive, suddenly depressing VCR has been grinding out. That's because VHS recorders typically display movies at about 240 lines of resolution; digital video paints...
Turn down the lights, turn on the strobe, and dress to impress, because it's Saturday night and the clubs are hopping with a whole new dance sensation. It's not quite hip-hop, nor techno, nor disco, and it is certainly not the macarena. Amid this chaos of spinning lights, moving bodies and exciting beats stands the world's most sought after DJ and most versatile party-guy, the forerunner of the Big Beat Movement, and the master of the remix: Fatboy Slim, a.k.a. Norman Cook. On his new album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby, Fatboy Slim...
...that is unpredictable, despite its revolution around a single vocal sample. Fatboy builds up and breaks down the beat tempo without losing the song's dance appeal, a tribute to the remix master's genius. At one point, the rhythm nearly halts, but then blasts back with a hip-hop sound. Fatboy Slim does not merely piece together some fragmented synthetic ideas into a five-minute track, but instead evolves the song from the basics to a masterpiece of mixology...
...track has its roots in remixed funk and soul, rather than techno. This is why it is so difficult to restrict Fatboy Slim to a certain category or musical genre. Instead, he utilizes every genre in the strangest and most appealing combinations. In "Gangster Tripping," he blends a hip-hop beat and vocals with a big band brass arrangement and a Caribbean steel drum. At times, there are so many diverse elements to a song thatmany of his innovations can only be appreciated ifcarefully heard three or four times. In sharpcontrast, on the very next track, "Build itUp--Tear...