Fatboy Slim - You’re Not From Brighton
This track turned up on my iPod the other day, and it reminded me just how much I loved the album it’s from when I first got it years and years ago. Fatboy Slim (real name Norman Cook) has released music under about eleventy billion different names throughout the 80s, 90s and 00s, but for me the “You’ve Come A Long Way Baby” album was the highpoint.
It was in the mid-late 90s, with the Bigbeat genre finding a bit of airplay on the radio and music tv channels, and Fatboy Slim was at the front of the movement, along with the record label he was on, Skint. The music is dance/club, but it tends to have a pretty pounding bassline (the aforementioned bigbeat), and a load of samples over the top.
Songs such as this one show how simple repetition can really aid a track’s noteworthiness. It doesn’t need to go all over the place to stick in your mind. Daft Punk took this to another level a few years later, and continue to do so nowadays.
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