Don’t anticipate new music music from veteran digital producer Fatboy Slim (aka Norman Cook dinner) any time quickly, with the artist revealing that reside reveals have taken over as his fundamental focus in recent times.
Cook dinner, who started his skilled musical profession as a member of indie rock outfit The Housemartins within the ’80s, has been an digital producer since his work with Beats Worldwide on the introduction of the ’90s, in the end going solo as Fatboy Slim in 1996.
Although massively well-liked in his native U.Okay., Cook dinner’s success additionally prolonged globally, along with his breakthrough report – 1998’s You’ve Come a Lengthy Means, Child – reaching No. 34 on the Billboard 200, and third single “Reward You” hitting No. 36 on the Scorching 100. Nonetheless, he’s been largely absent from the charts for a lot of the previous 20 years, along with his 2004 album Palookaville arriving as his final studio album to this point.
As a substitute, Cook dinner has largely turned his focus in the direction of his reside present, although new music does arrive sporadically. In 2024 alone, Cook dinner launched the singles “Function Mannequin” and “Bus Cease Please”, which have been his first new tracks since 2022’s “Velocity Trials on Acid” with Carl Cox.
Chatting with British publication The Solar’s Weird column just lately, Cook dinner defined that his output has slowed dramatically due an absence of ardour for creating new materials.
“My final two singles simply got here out of a reside present,” he defined. “They have been each issues that I made simply to play on the aspect. I had tunes that no person else had in my set. And that sort of caught on with folks after we labored out that we may clear the samples and launch them.
“The factor is, you may’t make music except you’re completely enthusiastic about it and it drives you from the second you get up within the morning,” he added. “I simply don’t appear to really feel like that any extra. I really feel like that about DJing and about placing on issues like this, however I’ve sort of misplaced my ardour for making music.”
In 2010, Cook dinner collaborated with Speaking Heads frontman David Byrne for Right here Lies Love, a joint idea and soundtrack album about Imelda Marcos, the previous first woman of the Philippines. To this point, that is the closest factor he’s come to creating a brand new full-length report, although he admits to combating a way of obligation alongside his reside units.
“For 5 years, I attempted to beat myself up about it and go, ‘You need to be doing this’, however then I believed, ‘Properly, all people likes my DJing and I get pleasure from that extra, so I’ll do this’,” he continued. “I’m hoping that at some point the fervour will come again.”
