Fatboy Dim?

Norman  ‘Fatboy Slim’ Cook admitted this week that he still sometimes puts records on at the wrong speed and even more curiously has never owned a computer.

“I don’t use one, no,” the multi-million selling superstar producer boasted in Mixmag, “No one’s ever sent me an email or an MP3 file and I’d like to keep it that way. I’m old skool.”

Chatting to the Sunday Times several months ago, Cook revealed his formula for success involved sampling ‘chorus and a groove only, don’t bother writing the verse’, though quite how he writes electronic music songs without a computer remains unclear.

Curiously, he also ridiculed his own song-writing craft several years ago, when he was enjoying international hits with tracks including Rockerfella Skank, Gangsta Trippin and Praise You.

“Barry Manilow said something like, ‘I’m still quite hip, I like Underworld and Fatboy Slim.’ He might have been bluffing,” Cook told DJ Mag in 2002.”But I can’t picture Barry Manilow sitting there, listening to ‘Fucking In Heaven’ saying, ‘Hmm, that is good song-writing’.”

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