Fatboy Slim ndi nthano yeniyeni mdziko la DJing. Anapereka zaka zoposa 40 ku nyimbo, mobwerezabwereza adadziwika kuti ndiye wabwino kwambiri ndipo adatenga malo otsogolera muzojambula.
Ubwana, unyamata, chilakolako cha nyimbo Fatboy Slim
Dzina lenileni - Norman Quentin Cook, wobadwa July 31, 1963 kunja kwa London. Anapita ku Reigate High School komwe adaphunzira maphunziro a violin. Mbale wamkuluyo anakulitsa chikondi cha nyimbo pamene, ali ndi zaka 14, anabweretsera Norman kaseti ya gulu loimba la punk rock The Damned.
Anayamba kupita ku zoimbaimba ku Greyhound Pub. Ndiyeno iye mwini ankaimba ng'oma mu gulu la Disque Attack. Atachoka woyimbayo, adatenga malo ake. Pambuyo pake amakumana ndi Paul Heaton, yemwe adzapanga nawo gulu la Stomping Pondfrogs.
Ali ndi zaka 18, adalowa ku Brighton Polytechnic Institute, komwe adaphunzira Chingerezi, chikhalidwe cha anthu ndi ndale. Izi zisanachitike, Norman adadziyesa kale ngati DJ. Inali pa nthawi ya yunivesite kuti anayamba mwakhama kukhala mbali imeneyi. Mu kalabu wophunzira "Basement" iye anachita pansi pa pseudonym DJ Quentox. Kumeneko ndi komwe kunachitika mawonekedwe a hip-hop a Brighton.
Njira zoyambira kutchuka Fatboy Slim
Paul Heaton adapeza Housemartins mu 1983, ndipo patatha zaka ziwiri, madzulo a ulendowu, woimbayo amawasiya. Norman akuvomera kuti alowe m'malo mwake. Kupambana sikunachedwe kubwera. Nyimbo ya "Happy Hour" imakhala yotchuka kwambiri, ndipo ma Albums "London 0 Hull 4" ndi "The People Who Grinned Themself to Death" alowa mu 10 pamwamba pa ma Albums abwino kwambiri ku UK.
Pambuyo pa zaka 5, Housemartins imasweka. Heaton amalenga gulu la The Beautiful South, ndipo Cook akuyamba ntchito payekha. Kale mu 1989 adatulutsa nyimbo "Blame It on the Bassline", yomwe inapita mosadziŵika ndipo siinakwere pamwamba pa mzere wa 29 pamwamba.
Panthawi imodzimodziyo, DJ adayambitsa Beats International. Ichi ndi chitaganya chotayirira cha oimba, kuphatikiza rappers MC Wildski, DJ Baptiste, soloists Lester Noel, Lindy Leighton ndi keyboardist Andy Boucher.
Chimbale chawo "Let Them Eat Bingo" chinayambitsa chisokonezo. Mlanduwo unaperekedwa ndi magulu Kusamvana ndi SOS Band. Cook anataya mlanduwo ndipo anakakamizika kulipira omwe anali ndi copyright ndalama zowirikiza kawiri kuposa zomwe adalandira. Izi zinapangitsa kuti bankirapuse, ndipo zoyesayesa zopeza ndalama sizinaphule kanthu: chimbale "Excursion on the Version" sichinapezeke kutchuka kwambiri.
Mobwerezabwereza
Zolephera sizinalepheretse Norman, kotero kuti mu 1993 adalenga gulu lina - Freak Power. Nyimbo yawo imodzi "Turn, Tune In, Cop Out" idagwiritsidwa ntchito potsatsa malonda amtundu waku America waku Levi's. Mu 1995, gulu "Pizzamania" linatulutsidwa. Ma single atatu ochokera kumeneko amakwera pamwamba pa ma chart, ndipo nyimbo ya "Chimwemwe" imagwiritsidwa ntchito kutsatsa timadziti.
Ntchito zingapo sizinali zokwanira kwa Norman. Chifukwa chake, limodzi ndi mnzake wakale wapanyumba, Gareth Hansom, yemwe amadziwika kuti GMoney, amapanga duet The Mighty Dub Katz. Pambuyo pake, anyamatawo amatsegula kalabu yawo yausiku "Boutique". Nyimbo yawo yotchuka kwambiri inali "Magic Carpet Ride".
90s ndi pachimake cha kutchuka
pseudonym wotchuka anaonekera mu 1996. Fatboy Slim amamasuliridwa kuti "munthu wochepa thupi", DJ adalongosola chisankho chake motere:
"Izi sizikutanthauza kanthu. Ndakhala ndikunama kwambiri m’zaka zonsezi moti zimandivuta kukumbukira choonadi. Awa ndi oxymoron chabe - mawu omwe sangakhalepo. Zimandikwanira - zikumveka zopusa komanso zopanda pake. ”
Mu 2008, zinanenedwa kuti DJ adalembedwa mu Guinness Book of Records chifukwa cha nyimbo zambiri zomwe zinatulutsidwa pansi pa ma pseudonyms osiyanasiyana. Nthawi zosiyanasiyana ankadzitcha kuti:
- Mnyamata wopusa
- Kutentha kuyambira 63
- Arthur Chumba
- sensateria
The kuwonekera koyamba kugulu Album "Fatboy Slim" sanali kunyansidwa chidwi ndipo analowa pamwamba tchati, mu 1998 anamasulidwa Album yachiwiri - "Praise You Come A Long Way, Baby". M'chaka chomwecho, pamodzi ndi wotsogolera Spike Jonze, kanema "Praise You" inajambulidwa, yomwe inalandira mphoto 3 kuchokera ku MTV, kuphatikizapo kanema wopambana.
Pambuyo pake, ntchito ya Cook inakhala ngati clockwork: pamwamba mosalekeza mu matchati, mavidiyo otchuka, mphoto zambiri. Ndikoyenera kudziwa kuti anali m'modzi mwa omwe adayambitsa gulu lalikulu la kumenya - imodzi mwa mitundu ya nyimbo zamagetsi. Big Beat imakhala ndi ma beats amphamvu, ma psychedelics ndi zoyika kuchokera ku hard rock, jazz ndi nyimbo za pop za 60s. Komanso omwe adayambitsa mtunduwo anali Propellerheads, The Prodigy, The Crystal Method, The Chemical Brothers ndi ena.
Moyo wa Fatboy Slim
Mu 1999, Norman adakwatira wowonetsa TV Zoe Ball, ali ndi mwana wamwamuna wazaka 20, Woody, ndi mwana wamkazi wazaka 11, Nellie, yemwe adatsata mapazi a abambo ake. Mu 2016, banjali linasiyana. Pa Marichi 4, 2021, padzakhala zaka 12 kuchokera pamene Cook adagonjetsa uchidakwa komanso kugwiritsa ntchito mankhwala osokoneza bongo. Patsiku limeneli mchaka cha 2009 adalowa mu chipatala chothandizira anthu kuti abwerere, komwe adakhalako kwa masabata atatu ndikuchoka chifukwa chofuna kuchita.
Tsopano
Norman akadali wokhulupirika ku nyimbo ndipo nthawi zambiri amawonekera pa zikondwerero monga "Global Gathering", "Good Vibrations" ndi ena.Amapanganso ndi DJ seti pazochitika zosiyanasiyana. Pa mliri wa Covid-19, adayang'ana kwambiri mwana wake wamkazi, yemwe ali ndi zaka 10 adachita nawo chikondwerero cha Camp Bestival, komwe adapeza ndalama zogulira malo opangira khansa.
Fatboy Slim watulutsa nyimbo zambiri mu ntchito yake yonse ndipo adasewera mazana a ma DJ seti, ndipo ali ndi zaka 57 ali ndi mphamvu zambiri, kotero saganizira n'komwe kusiya zomwe amakonda.
