‘I am uncle of the DJs’, says Fatboy Slim

‘ I am uncle of the DJs ‘, says Fatboy Slim

January 22, 2008

Strong candidate to gain the trophy Jimmy Cliff of number of visits to Brazil, the British DJ Fatboy Slim arrives in port for the sixth time in the country for one turnê – that he will include a new participation in the Carnival of Salvador, for the room consecutive year. The turn starts with a presentation in the Pacha club, in São Paulo, in this Wednesday (23), and if it extends for others five dates.

Fatboy Slim goes to present a new band, prepared especially for this turnê, beyond new productions that must enter in its fifth album of studio, with launching foreseen for this year.

But Norman Cook, of 44 years, that the career started as stock exchange operator of the band pop Housemartins (famous in Brazil for “Build”, or “Melô of the paper”) and was during 90 years the great personificação of the DJ to superstar, says that tiozinho of the DJs is felt “”.

“I have 40 years more than, some things made for the staff of underground I do not obtain to understand and he makes me to find that I am very old. Old excessively to be a DJ. I am a little ‘ old ‘ in relation to some practical, but, in the end of the accounts, I find that the people only want party. A good party.”

It admits that until today he does not possess one iPod and that he only bought a computer because the entrepreneur and the woman had insisted. “I taste not kneel me for the technology. I until know what he is rolling in terms of new features, but I simply do not want to hug the technology.”

E when listening new artists as the French pair Executes, the English Hot Chip and Klaxons, it affirms if to feel as “one tiozinho dull”. But it says not to be passing for no crisis of middle-age: “This was has some years, when I made 40 years, but was something more related the crossroads in the life. It was plus this. Today I feel myself comfortable.”

And as goes to sound the new work? Fatboy Slim makes mystery: “It will be different”. Different as? “I cannot speak very, I I would not have to comment this, but I say that he goes to be well distinct of the other albums.” The English is cautious in the hour to even say if he has some inspiration coming of current sounds. “Hmmm… yes… but is very dangerous to talk on this.”

The year of 2008 also marks the ten years of its work of bigger success, “You’ve eats long way baby”, that it generated megahits “The to rockafeller skank” and “Praise you” and beat in the house of the 5 million vendidas copies. Big also represented the ascension of the sort beat, that it initiated much people in electronic music and provided to some DJs a style of life of star of the rock. Fatboy Slim says that it was not nothing difficult if to accustom with the arrival of the exemptions in estratosférica scale.

“It imagines! It is very, very easy. You it only says yes. Yes for the new people who go appearing, fans, parties, places “. Nowadays, the English believes that the things already had come back to a more realistic platform. “Outside I, Paul Van Dyk, Carl Cox and some other names, all the DJs had come back toward underground. But it is there that music is being made.”

Posted by Fabio Santos at 9:26 PM

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