burn #residency - Masterclass: Fatboy Slim

"Rule number one: Never wear shoes."

The enigmatic Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, shares his 31 years of dance industry knowledge with our burn residency contestants. In his masterclass session the veteran and much-loved music figure presents his top seven DJ tips, some anecdotes from "the good ol' days," plus a few production cheats to "really get the crowd going.." Take notes!

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Music Credits:

Fire Flowerz & Birdee - 'In The Night'
Luxury - 'Bounce'
Luxury - 'Edu'
Luxury - 'Kaja'

[andrewdrummer]

Fatboy slim probably was like "How much shit do I need to talk till this fucking ableton live opens" xD

[NathanChisholm]

He seems quite down to earth plus his music is amazing!

[marxp]

Kids today will never know going to a record shop and spending hours digging through vinyl. That was my favorite part of doing gigs in different cities was going to the record shops and just listening and buying records. Hahaha funny how mr cook stopped before he said technics. Haha they don't know what 1200s are haha

[JamesBermingham]

Norman Cook. Great personality. Great masterclass.

[funnyguy]

Norman is like one quarter boomer, three quarter the coolest man ever

[kondirecs]

Norman is such a cool fella ... What a legend and thank you for your awesomeness and amazing music!

[erwinvandijk]

Norman just a great guy, down to earth...really down to earth, enjoying life and his guy!!!

[donreed]

Love Fat Boy Slim! Saw him for first time in 97. It was a DJ set in Chicago when he was touring a Better living thru Chemistry . I wasn’t expecting a DJ set but it was great. Hard to believe he is still Djing and I think his sets just get better and better. If you aren’t having a good time at a Fatboy slim show, you need to check your pulse as you may be dead. Hopefully I will get a chance to see him again in 23/24.

[twelvepetaledlotus]

Do you know what he may well not be the best technical DJ of that period or the most underground but he did create a bit of a movement based on his music and across the board seems a really creative character and I think it's obvious he cared/cares about what he does. Respect.

[BlueshellGamer]

How can these folks not be more hype???? Cmon man ! Masterclass!

[danhealy]

Man, Fatboy Slim... Him and Swedish Egil were the reasons I got into djing back in the mid 90's.  He is right, djing back then was a hobby and I couldn't see myself making a living of it (not like engineering has done for me).  There are times when I miss being behind the decks at clubs making people dance and feel great, though....

[NovaV]

I grew up listening to FatboySLim even though there are so many different types of DJ's around today, we need to sit back and remember the first guys. the ones who really started DJ'ing, Like Fatboy he is like one of the earliest pioneers, lets not forget other beggning DJ'ers "Avalanches" "Chemical Brothers" "basement Jaxx" the band of the 90's! even if you can call them a band, most of them were just a two man crew!

[newie]

He is my because of him I got into is the Best part of Burn are you coming to INDIA?

[Anemoo]

Now that is a history lesson great information ;-) You are AWESOME!

[kixxalot]

As much as I like his music from the 90s, his current style just leaves me completely cold. And some masterclass... you will learn more about production from videos on Youtube that show rebuilds of some of his old tracks in Ableton Live.

[LautaroGutierrezArbiza]

Wow! He was totally right about Hawaiian shirts, at least in my country, they are really trending

[FiguDs]

must say luv this one you should do more like this indeed

[dzms]

''Produce looks simple, and now i wan't to produce'' Hell yeah girl.. :))
It's not producing if you just re-editing track,
Producing is about building idea, making synths, making right melody, groove, bassline, and its isn't easy to make unique stuff. Because there's a lot of similar stuff out there these days. Right?

[Burn]

The music was made especially for the series. Unfortunately you cannot buy this track anywhere.

[therealbyond]

eyecontact is probaly better than the mixxingskills / :) nice guy