Big Beat became a footnote in a decade remembered for grunge and arena-rock. This is one of those sub-genres I always thought would be bigger than it ended up being. No matter, the resulting artwork shows no signs of stress or frustration вЂ“ it all flows perfectly while exuding positive vibes throughout. It is difficult to imagine him sitting at a laptop cursing over his attempts to finalize mixes and splices and cutting out uncleared samples, but my own limited experience with making electronic music as a hobby suggests that such a scenario is inevitable. I know вЂњbounce aestheticвЂќ isnвЂ™t really a thing, but I couldnвЂ™t come up with a better way to describe the sound. There is also a вЂњbounceвЂќ aesthetic throughout the record that creates a spectacularly upbeat experience. It was called Big Beat for a reason, and the album is jam-packed with sampled drummers instead of electronic drumbeats, and this is in large part responsible for making this music more human and less robotic. Norman CookвЂ™s songs had a lifelike quality that IвЂ™d never experienced in machine-made music before.Д®ven now it stands out as a work of inspired innovation. This wasnвЂ™t a bunch of cold bloops and bleeps over a harsh electronic drumbeat. Though it was clearly made using turntables, computers, samplers, et cetera, there was a real sense of musicianship behind the songs. But where a lot of techno could be accurately described as soulless repetition (a positive or negative, depending on how you felt about it), Fatboy Slim created something in YouвЂ™ve Come A Long Way, Baby that set it completely apart. I was a big fan of techno music in the early вЂ™90s, enjoying the music more than the scene. вЂњThe Rockefeller SkankвЂќ was followed in January вЂ™99 by вЂњPraise YouвЂќ which, thanks in large part to the endless rotation on MTV, went to #2 on the US Alternative Charts and propelled the album to gold and platinum status around the world, going four-times-platinum in the UK alone. Not only that, but despite the occasionally repetitious samples littered throughout, the disc continues to have massive replay value вЂ“ Norman Cook packs so much into every cut that there is something new to hear each time you listen. But YouвЂ™ve Come A Long Way Baby showed that what should have been a singles-only genre could produce albums that were top-quality from front-to-back. In truth, the introduction had come about four months earlier with the release of lead single, вЂњThe Rockafeller Skank,вЂќ which blew up the airwaves the previous summer. October 19, 1998, Fatboy Slim introduced the world to the Big Beat genre. And unless you were part of the scene, no one had really heard anything like it when it hit. This album was inescapably ubiquitous in the late 90s but it still sounds fresh and exciting today. So hard to believe itвЂ™s been 20 years today since Fatboy SlimВ released his classic YouвЂ™ve Come A Long Way, Baby.

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