On the Floor at the Boutique [ENHANCED] [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [LIVE]

Fatboy Slim

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: March 28, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics, Live
• Label: Astralwerks
• ASIN: B00004S5DG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #44,150 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Finally, the U.S. sees a domestic release of Fatboy Slim's On the Floor at the Boutique, hands down one of the most thrilling, addictive DJ mix albums ever released. Recorded live in 1998 at the Big Beat Boutique (epicenter of the mid- to late-'90s big-beat movement), Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim, takes the listener on a fascinating, diverse tour of four-on-the-floor sounds. What's always made Cook so great is the way that he seamlessly blends seemingly incongruous sounds to create righteously cool, shiny new beats; he truly is the trainspotting vinyl freak with an uncanny talent for creating accessible dance-floor shakers built of weird components. Take track 4--who'd have thought a spry blue-beat ska sample, an ELO riff, phat beats, a few stray horn riffs, and a sped-up Jungle Brothers vocal track would be one of the coolest things heard all year? --Mike McGonigal

Product Description
19 tracks mixed by Norman Cooke (a.k.a. Fatboy Slim). Features Jungle Brothers, Fatboy Slim, CLS, Hardknox and Cut La Roc. 1998 Skint release. The full title is 'On The Floor At The Boutique: Mixed By Fatboy Slim'. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Props to Norman Cook!, April 28, 2000

By	"breather" (Brantford, Ont.) - See all my reviews

I was SO surprised to find out that big Mr. Fatboy hasn't lost his roots. This is a fantastic album that highlights the best in bigbeat and Big Norman mixes it all so well. I know alot of the kids out there who love Fatboy Slim for Praise You and "The Funk Soul Brother" have bought this CD and hated it, and they deserve it. This is what true bigbeat is all about and for some it may take a little getting used to, but in the end it's worth it. Notable tracks by the Bassbin Twins, Cut La Roc, Jungle Brothers (my all-time fav FBS remix), and DJ Tonka. I promise you that if you play this album at a party, everyone will have 4.592 times as much fun (that's a proven statistic.)

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mix disc thats a much better effort than expected, May 14, 2000

By	Richard Diaz (Centerville, OH United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Fatboy Slim, it seems you either love him for bringing happy bounce music to the masses or loathe him for dragging the big beat genre into insipidness. Personally I'm in the middle, finding his "Better Living Through Chemistry" a well-done effort and his "You've Come A Long Way, Baby" a dumbed down mess.

Well this mixed set of selected tunes is neither, residing in a happy middle ground. Fatboy drops inspired choices like the often sampled "Apache", the Jungle Brothers' "Because I got it like that"- with a great ELO sample in it, and a few of his own, "Michael Jackson" and "Rockafeller Skank." He generally picks fun quality songs with a hip-hop flavor to them, making this disc a parallel to the Chemical Brothers "Live at the Heavenly Social" mix disc of years back.

70 minutes of this can wear thin at times, and his apparent love of squeally acid tunes which he drops 2/3 the way in won't work for everyone. Still, in the right doses it makes for a good party on a platter.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Necessary Addition to any Serious Collection, April 6, 2000

By	Greg (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

This latest US release from Fatboy Slim, a.k.a Norman Cook is truly an amazing piece of art. First off, the entire CD is a non-stop mix, making it great for a party, and showcasing Fatboy's talent for seamlessly mixing tracks. Second, the music is classic. There isn't a single track that isn't worth listening to, and the variety is nice. It really is a must have CD if you like this kind of music. Plus, the enhanced track features a cool video from the Concorde Club, where the disc was made. It's definitely worth just that track alone.