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* SpeedyTechnoRemake: One example would be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY402YdBhBo "Jin Go Lo Ba"]], which takes its vocal from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZYhFyF8dvU4 an old Nigerian song of the same name.]]

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* SpeedyTechnoRemake: One example would be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY402YdBhBo "Jin Go Lo Ba"]], which takes its vocal vocals from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZYhFyF8dvU4 an old Nigerian song of the same name.]]
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* StopAndGo: "The Pimp" does this before the final chorus.
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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Right Here, Right Now takes the titular vocals from [[StrangeDays Strange Days]]. His remix of Mike and Charlie's "I Get Live" is one of a [[WuTangClan Method Man]] interview. Drop the Hate remixes an old pastor's sermon. We could go on all night.

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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Right Here, Right Now takes the titular vocals from [[StrangeDays Strange Days]].Film/StrangeDays. His remix of Mike and Charlie's "I Get Live" is one of a [[WuTangClan Method Man]] interview. Drop the Hate remixes an old pastor's sermon. We could go on all night.
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* SpeedyTechnoRemakeSpeedyTechnoRemake: One example would be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY402YdBhBo "Jin Go Lo Ba"]], which takes its vocal from [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZYhFyF8dvU4 an old Nigerian song of the same name.]]
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* EpicRocking: "Song For Shelter"

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* EpicRocking: "Song For Shelter"Shelter", "Santa Cruz", and "Next to Nothing".
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* {{Trope 2000}}: "Acid 8000".
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His most successful work has been his Big Beat alias of Fatboy Slim, which he continues to use to this day, which has awarded him critical acclaim. The first two Fatboy Slim albums, ''Better Living Through Chemistry'' (1997) and ''You've Come A Long Way, Baby'' (1998), spun off numerous worldwide hits, such as "Going Out of My Head", "The Rockefeller Skank" and "Praise You". If you have watched many a commercial, you are bound to have heard his music.


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His most successful work has been his Big Beat alias of Fatboy Slim, which he continues to use to this day, which has awarded him critical acclaim. The first two Fatboy Slim albums, ''Better Living Through Chemistry'' (1997) (1996) and ''You've Come A Long Way, Baby'' (1998), spun off numerous worldwide hits, such as "Going Out of My Head", "The Rockefeller Skank" and "Praise You". If you have watched many a commercial, you are bound to have heard his music.

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* AlbumTitleDrop: Weapon Of Choice from the album "Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars".

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* AlbumTitleDrop: Weapon "Weapon Of Choice Choice" from the album "Halfway ''Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars".Stars''.
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* HypocriticalHumour: Makes a song called "You're Not From Brighton" despite not being from Brighton. (He was actually born in Bromley and raised in Reigate, Surrey, but moved to Brighton when he began his career as an electronic musician.)
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** It helps that he has a pretty huge record collection. He even got a catchy vocal sample from Music/{{Negativland}} of all places.
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* {{Mondegreen}}: "You're Not From Brighton" is named after a mondegreen of the main vocal sample from Minimal Funk's "The Groovy Thang". The actual vocal is "get up and party", but the combination of the original vocal being vocoded and its pitch being dropped to fit the song's tempo result in it sounding like "you're not from Brighton!".
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Quentin Leo Cook, better known as Norman Cook, and even better known as Fatboy Slim was born on July 31st 1963, and is considered one of the most familiar faces in the British electronic music scene. He originally gained fame in the 1980's as the bass player for indie rock band The Housemartins, a band known for their Christian-Marxist beliefs and the singles "Happy Hour" and "Caravan of Love".

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Quentin Leo Cook, better known as Norman Cook, and even better known as Fatboy Slim Slim, was born on July 31st 1963, and is considered one of the most familiar faces in the British electronic music scene. He originally gained fame in the 1980's as the bass player for indie rock band The Housemartins, a band known for their Christian-Marxist beliefs and the singles "Happy Hour" and "Caravan of Love".

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* LastNoteNightmare:
** "Song For Lindy" has some dissonant synth chords playing over the drumbeat that continue for a bit after the drumbeat stops.
** "You're Not From Brighton" has the track's pitch gradually lower so that it resembles a vinyl record slowing down... except the song's actual tempo doesn't change.
** "Weapon Of Choice" combines this with GratuitousPanning; a sample of a record being scratched is played forwards and backwards repeatedly in one ear, and some radio static plays in the other.



** Palookaville did undergo a shift in style, however, towards a much more relaxed/chilled out sound, with less reliance on the active, high energy tracks that defined his older albums. While he is not working on a album at the moment, he does plan on making a new one eventually, so we'll have to see what style he goes with on that one....

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** Palookaville did undergo a shift in style, however, towards a much more relaxed/chilled out sound, with less reliance on the active, high energy tracks that defined his older albums. While he is not working on a an album at the moment, he does plan on making a new one eventually, so we'll have to see what style he goes with on that one....
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* AmenBreak: The song "Michael Jackson"

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* AmenBreak: The song "Michael Jackson"Jackson". This is an interesting case, as the song doesn't sample directly from the Amen Break, but rather samples Music/{{NWA}}'s "Straight Outta Compton", which samples the Amen Break.
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* RecrringRiff: There is a particular riff in the middle of "Song For Lindy" that makes another appearance in "Love Island".

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* RecrringRiff: RecurringRiff: There is a particular riff in the middle of "Song For Lindy" that makes another appearance in "Love Island".
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* RecrringRiff: There is a particular riff in the middle of "Song For Lindy" that makes another appearance in "Love Island".
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Despite being a DJ since the late 1970's, it took till the late 1980's for Cook to finally be noticed as a DJ with his successful project "Beats International", which scored the 1990 #1 single "Dub Be Good To Me", which was a cover of the SOS Band's "Just Be Good To Me" with the bass line of The Clash's "Guns Of Brixton", which eventually led to him being sued, and later befriending the Clash.

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Despite being a DJ since the late 1970's, it took till the late 1980's for Cook to finally be noticed as a DJ with his successful project "Beats International", Beats International, which scored the 1990 #1 single "Dub Be Good To Me", which was a cover of the SOS Band's "Just Be Good To Me" with the bass line of The Clash's Music/TheClash's "Guns Of Brixton", which eventually led to him being sued, and later befriending the Clash.
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During the 1990's he recorded music under many different names including Pizzaman, Mighty Dub Katz, Fried Funk Food, Cheeky Boy and many more, with also having a Jazz-Funk/Acid Jazz outfit called Freakpower, which spawned the hit "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" thanks to it's use on a Levis advert.

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During the 1990's he recorded music under many different names including Pizzaman, Mighty Dub Katz, Fried Funk Food, Cheeky Boy and many more, with also having a Jazz-Funk/Acid Jazz outfit called Freakpower, which spawned the hit "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" thanks to it's its use on a Levis advert.
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* EpicRocking: Song For Shelter

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* EpicRocking: Song "Song For ShelterShelter"
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* EpicSong: "Right Here, Right Now".

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*EpicSong: "Right Here, Right Now".



** Also, "Right Here, Right Now".
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* EpicSong: Song For Shelter

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* EpicSong: EpicRocking: Song For Shelter
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** Palookaville did undergo a shift in style, however, towards a much more relaxed/chilled out sound, with less reliance on the active, high energy tracks that defined his older albums. While he is not working on a album at the moment, he does plan on making a new one eventually, so we'll have to see what style he goes with on that one....

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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Right Here, Right Now takes the titular vocals from [[StrangeDays Strange Days]]. His remix of Mike and Charlie's "I Get Live" is one of a MethodMan interview. Drop the Hate remixes an old pastor's sermon. We could go on all night.

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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Right Here, Right Now takes the titular vocals from [[StrangeDays Strange Days]]. His remix of Mike and Charlie's "I Get Live" is one of a MethodMan [[WuTangClan Method Man]] interview. Drop the Hate remixes an old pastor's sermon. We could go on all night.night.
** His entire career is basically made out of making these.
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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Right Here, Right Now takes the titular vocals from [[StrangeDays Strange Days]].

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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Right Here, Right Now takes the titular vocals from [[StrangeDays Strange Days]]. His remix of Mike and Charlie's "I Get Live" is one of a MethodMan interview. Drop the Hate remixes an old pastor's sermon. We could go on all night.
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* StupidStatementDanceMix: Right Here, Right Now takes the titular vocals from [[StrangeDays Strange Days]].
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** Also, "Right Here, Right Now".
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** The rest of the Housemartins also broke out as TheBeautifulSouth.

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