He talks about his college days, his punk part, and the bands he noticed stay, the vinyl he found in document shops and songs he heard on the radio that stopped him in his tracks, with the present together with songs by Donna Summer season, The Carpenters, The Damned, The Conflict and Chemical Brothers.
On The Damned: “After 13 years of being spoonfed the Carpenters, my brother Simon introduced house punk rock. By the point the track had completed I might purchased the document off him. By the point the album had completed I used to be a punk rocker. Its the sound of rebel that I used to be on the lookout for in my life.”
On Chemical Brothers: “Tom and Ed had been launched to me by Lindy Layton who I might been in a band with referred to as Beats Worldwide. I had this DJ set that I used to play – and he or she phoned me up in the future and stated you’ know that set you performed of slowed down techno and sped up hip hop …there’s these different guys in London referred to as the Chemical Brothers doing it. It was like assembly your lengthy misplaced household that you just by no means thought you had.”
On The Conflict: “I used to be a hardcore punk rocker. Nonetheless the one gang on the town was The Conflict. They weren’t scared to combine round completely different genres of music. In addition they politically influenced me vastly. They actually educated me. The feelings of being an solely white man in a reggae viewers resonated with me later as being the one white man in a hip hop crowd.”
The programme will characteristic an excellent mixture of music from completely different many years, completely different international locations and a number of genres, together with soul, hip hop, reggae, disco, blues, funk, punk, pop and, after all, dance, all of which, when introduced collectively, have helped make Fatboy Slim one of many world’s most profitable and much-loved DJs.
