R.Collective ART VS MUSIC
Art & Music
Ear & Eyegasms!
B E N I
Since releasing his all-conquering debut record - 'House of Beni' in 2011, Australia's very-own Beni has refused to look back.
The video for Beni's second single 'Someone Just Like You' is Jared Eberhardt's kaleidoscopic vision. Shot between a warehouse space in downtown LA and the open deserts of Death Valley and Joshua Tree, the result is an energetic, pulsating dance video that pulls no punches.
Mexican Street Art
Mexican street art. Day of the dead is amongst us. For all those who have died to be resurrected and live once again!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!
WEEKEND LISTENING
^^^ The Hypothetical Prophets ^^^
^^^ Palais Schaumburg ^^^
^^^ Puhdys ^^^
^^^ B.E.F. ^^^
^^^ Drinking Electricity ^^^
^^^ Leer and Rental ^^^
^^^ Algebra Suicide ^^^
Norman Cook
FUTURE MUSIC
FatBoy Slim, original name Quentin ‘Norman’ Cook (Norman Cook), was born in Bromley, England, in 13th July, 1963, but grew up and inspired in Redhill (England). FatBoy Slim started DJing when he moved to Brighton to attend college. FatBoy Slim’s first band was the Housemartins, where he played bass, invited by his old school mate Paul Heaton.
FatBoy Slim’s first single with the band was Flag Day, which got him into the top120 charts. Shortly after this they released their second top-single Sheep, reaching the stars at #56. The next single was the big bang of their careers – Happy Hour, smashing everything and everyone to the #3 in the charts. Their album London 0 Hull 4 was also top ranked. But their follow album, summary of their Isley Brothers tune (1986), they got top position (yeah, #1!) in British charts. Their last album was The People Who Grinned Themselves to Dth was also very successful, getting a few singles into top 20, but shortly after their last success the band split up, for a reason unknown for me.
After FatBoy Slim’s success with the Housemartins he returned in Brighton to start career as a remixer for Eric B. and Rakim’s I Know You Got Soul. At this time FatBoy Slim formed Beats International, which wasn’t exactly a band, but collaboration of music artists. Their first success was in 1989, with the single Dub Be Good to Me. Let Them Eat Bingo, Beats International first album, was dub filled sound fest. The second album, Excursion on the Version, was released in 1991. After this FatBoy Slim left the music stage for about two years, taking power for his great return.
Two years off the stage he felt that it is time to come back and bring people some fresh waves he formed FreakPower with brass player and vocalist Ashley Slater (from Microgroove, UK). FreakPower`s first album was Drive Thru Booty, released in 1994. With the single Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out They almost reached #1 position. The reason for this was because of Levi`s Jeans` they picked this single up for their multimillion dollar advertising campaign in 94. Great success for FatBoy Slim. More power and fans for FatBoy Slim.
Shortly after the FreakPower success, FatBoy Slim created new album, under the nickname Pizzaman (Norman is having 10+ pseudonyms, but for them – later). There were many top singles like Happiness, Sex on The Streets and Trippin’ on Sunshine. In 1996 his band`s second album came out More Of everything…For everybody. Two singles were top-ranked in the charts, but the company, which holds FreakPower, stopped their activities. At this time Norman was working with Fried Funk Food, Mighty Dub Kats and Damien Harris (he helped for “Skint” Records).
Loaded-Records owned the pseudonym “Pizzaman” and so Norman turned into the ironical “FatBoy Slim”. If you ask him – this nickname comes from a Louisiana blues singer from the 40′s, famed for a song called ‘Baby, I Want A Piece of Your Pie.
Norman recorded “Better Living through Chemistry” over the course of a week in 1996. The album’s name is connected with a slogan used in America in the 50′s, advocating that hyperactive children should be quieted down with large doses of valium. The name is also a nod to his friends and colleague, the Chemical Brothers, who convince him to put the album together. The album was totally successful.
A few clubs from London offered him to DJ after they played his first single “Santa Cruz”. And he did respond to their offer. Later he decided that he will gain more success if he opens his own club in Brighton, so he started this club and named it “Big Beat Boutique”. At this time FatBoy Slim was the resident of this club. Norman again attracted the audience, gaining more and more power and fans.
He turned into one of the top DJs and remixers, working with such a stars like U2, Madonna, Cornershop, Wildchild, Beastie Boys, Fluke… even he remixed Queens “we will rock you”.
In 1998 he released one of the greatest albums of all time for me? “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby” (did you know that this name comes from a Virginia’s Slims cigarette slogan?). This was the #1 album at the dance stage for 1998 with such absolutely smashing hits like “The Rockafeller Skank”, “Right Here, Right Now”, “Praise You”… Well, actually with every song in this album! At this time he reached more and more audience? absolutely domination of the charts and the dance floors.
On 9 September 1999, he performed "Praise You" at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards in New York City, and won three awards, including the award for Breakthrough Video.
In 2000, Fatboy Slim released his fourth studio album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, and featured two collaborations with Macy Gray and "Weapon of Choice", which also was made into an award-winning video starring Christopher Walken. At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards in New York, Fatboy Slim won 6 awards for "Weapon of Choice", the most awards at the ceremony.
In 2003, he produced tracks 3 and 12 for the Blur album Think Tank, and in 2004, Palookaville was Cook's first studio album for four years.
Fatboy Slim's greatest hits album Why Try Harder was released on 19 June 2006. It comprises eighteen tracks, including ten Top 40 singles, a couple of Number Ones and two exclusive new tracks – "Champion Sound" and "That Old Pair of Jeans". Most of the songs were shortened and heavily edited, resulting in almost fifteen minutes of unused space on the compact disc release.
In 2006, Cook travelled to Cuba, and wrote and produced two original Cuban crossover tracks for the album The Revolution Presents: Revolution, which was released by Studio !K7 and Rapster Records in 2009. The tracks were called "Shelter" (which featured long term collaborator Lateef); and "Siente Mi Ritmo", featuring Cuba's top female vocal group Sexto Sentido. The recordings took place in Cuba's legendary EGREM Studios, home of the Buena Vista Social Club, and featured a band made up of Cuba's top young musicians, including Harold Lopez Nussa. Another track recorded during these sessions entitled "Guaguanco" was released separately under the Mighty Dub Katz moniker in 2006.
Cook has also been responsible for successful remixes for Cornershop, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, and Wildchild. In 2008, he did a remix of the track "Amazonas" for the charity Bottletop. Cook released a mix album in 2010 titled The Legend Returns as a covermount album in the June 2010 issue of Mixmag.
OTHER ALIAS'
? Norman Cook
? Beats International
? Brighton Port Authority
? Cheeky Boy
? Chemistry
? DJ Delite
? Fatboy Slim
? Freak Power
? Fried Funk Food
? Mighty Dub Katz
? Pizzaman
? Rockaway 3
? Sensataria
? Slimboy Fat
? Son of a Cheeky Boy
? Son of Wilmot
? Sunny Side Up
? The Feelgood Factor
? The Housemartins
? Yum Yum Head Food
TSP
TSP RETURNS 3rd MARCH 2012
NEW T-SHIRTS
NEW VIDEOS
NEW GUESTS
SAME SPIRIT
IN CELEBRATION OF THE RETURN WE’RE RE-RELEASING THE ORIGINAL 52 T-SHIRTS
AVAILABLE DURING FEBRUARY ONLY
LAST CHANCE TO BUY
THEN WE MOVE ON
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