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...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 combines funk, soul, slamming techno and jazzy bits with ingenious samples and a vibrant sense of humor into a single, irresistible album. But unlike many other techno groups, Fatboy manages to maintain the immediate...
...year. This track is Fatboy Slim at his best, as he manages to create a continuity of euphony 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...
...downsides to Brother's Gonna Work It Out is that the average listener will not recognize many of the original records that the Chemical Brothers have mixed. It is hard to appreciate a remix without ever having heard the original version. For these people, tracks three and four may drag on. However, the album does finish with mixes of two very familiar songs: Manic Street Preachers' "Everything Must Go" and Spiritualized's "I Think I'm In Love." The effects and rhythms sampled into "Everything Must Go" make it stand out as a great moment in the record. Just...
About 300 laughing and dancing students are crowded in Wreston Quad, standing in tight clusters on the lawn outside the frat houses. The dance remix, "My Heart Will Go On," is blasting from a third-story frat window, and students are chugging beers and ignoring the nearby police, who seem content to munch on pizza and watch the party...
Opening with a menacing remix of the ordinarily lovely "Hymn," Moby proceeded to dive into his back catalog of early '90s house tracks, accompanied by two drummers and a live bass player, a la Squarepusher. The shirtless Mr. Hall himself bounced all over the stage, becoming an occasional third drummer and pounding on keyboards from time to time. "Ah Ah" and "Bring Back My Happiness" were played for speed, a fact appreciated by the crowds. The rave classic "Move," stretched to eight minutes, was far too short. Euphoria was the order of the night as Moby repeatedly plunged into...