Halfway Between The Gutter & T (Explicit Version) (2000) (Explicit Version )

Artist: Fatboy Slim
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Label: Emd/astralwerks
UPC: 00724385046025
Release Date: 11/7/2000
Buy.com Sku: 60444975
Item#: M29MM9
Format:  CD


Song Listing
 
Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Talking Bout My Baby------
2. Star 69------
3. Sunset (Bird of Prey) ~ (remix)------
4. Love Life ~ (featuring Macy Gray)------
5. Ya Mama------
6. Mad Flava------
7. Retox------
8. Weapon Of Choice ~ (featuring Bootsy Collins)------
9. Drop The Hate------
10. Demons ~ (featuring Macy Gray)------
11. Song For Shelter ~ (featuring Roland Clark)------


Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars is the follow up to the global smash You've Come A Long Way, Baby and features 11 tracks of Fatboy brilliance. This album features vocal collaborations for the very first time. After months of speculation, it can be confirmed that Norman will be joined on the album by Macy Gray, Bootsy Collins, and Roland Clark (vocalist on Armand Van Heldens hit "Flowerz").It's a bit more chilled and loved-up than the last one. A bit less poppy and up-for-it; there arent any "Rockafeller Skanks". It's a bit more thoughtful and bit more housey. When I started it I sat there for two months and thought, God, what do I do now! What I did know is that I didnt want to do another big beat album. It was quite hard at first because all I knew is what I didn't want it to sound like. But I soon found a groove. It is almost gospelly a lot of it. Sort of uplifting!"
 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel includes: Fatboy Slim, Ashley Slater, Roger Sanchez, Macy Gray, Bootsy Collins, Roland Clark, Shinehead.
HALFWAY BETWEEN THE GUTTER & THE STARS was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
Personnel includes: Fatboy Slim, Ashley Slater, Roger Sanchez, Macy Gray, Bootsy Collins, Roland Clark, Shinehead.
HALFWAY BETWEEN THE GUTTER & THE STARS was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
Personnel: Norman Cook (keyboards, sampler).
Audio Mixer: Simon Thornton.
Photographers: R.N. Hughes; MacDonald Strand; Tim Day; T. Rigg; J.H. Golden.
Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, drops the overwrought fratboy party appeal of his previous releases for this subdued take on the "Big Beat" formula. Cook conjures up soulful, gospel-inflected music that draws equally from classic rock as it does from acid house. Cook's samples vary wildly, from Jim Morrison to Bill Withers, but are part of considered arrangements and beautifully restrained production.
Things get off to a contemplative start with the opening track "Talking Bout My Baby." It sets the tone for the rest of the album, a contrast of introspective emotions and peak hour party stompers perfectly illustrated by the track "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)," which samples a Doors acapella over an ambient breakbeat track to great effect. The pace of the record is generally upbeat, especially on the sleazy funk track featuring Macy Gray "Love Life" and the hip-hop bossanova of "Weapons of Choice," which includes a performance by a heavily vocodered Bootsy Collins. The gospel influence extends to the final track "Song For Shelter," an exuberant statement for global house culture making implicit the connection between dance music and spiritual experience.
Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, drops the overwrought fratboy party appeal of his previous releases for this subdued take on the "Big Beat" formula. Cook conjures up soulful, gospel-inflected music that draws equally from classic rock as it does from acid house. Cook's samples vary wildly, from Jim Morrison to Bill Withers, but are part of considered arrangements and beautifully restrained production.
Things get off to a contemplative start with the opening track "Talking Bout My Baby." It sets the tone for the rest of the album, a contrast of introspective emotions and peak hour party stompers perfectly illustrated by the track "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)," which samples a Doors acapella over an ambient breakbeat track to great effect. The pace of the record is generally upbeat, especially on the sleazy funk track featuring Macy Gray "Love Life" and the hip-hop bossanova of "Weapons of Choice," which includes a performance by a heavily vocodered Bootsy Collins. The gospel influence extends to the final track "Song For Shelter," an exuberant statement for global house culture making implicit the connection between dance music and spiritual experience.

Producer: Fatboy Slim; Norman Cook

Engineer: Simon Thornton

Musical Guests
Macy Gray
Bootsy Collins
Roland Clark

 
Compilation Appearances
Loose & Juicy
Vol. 1-Essential Selection
Moulin Rouge
All Star Jock Jams
Blade II (Explicit Version)
Global House Diva 2 Live In Ibiza (Explicit Version)
Dj Irene Boxset (Explicit Version)
Queer as Folk: The Fifth Season (Soundtrack)
Funky House Sessions
Clubbers Guide:summer 2005
Going To The Game:chelsea Fc
Going To The Game:manchester City
Orig. Tv St-Las Vegas0905
Global Underground 021:moscow
Global Underground 10
My Super Ex Girlfriends
Ibiza Annual 2006 (Eng)
Club Hits 2007 (Can)
Babel
Flushed Away
Thrivemix 03 0107
Late Night Tales
Mos:ride
Ministry Of Sound:rush
Club Hits 2007/Club Hits:platinum Edi
Annual 2009
Nervous Nitelife: New Headliners Vol. 1
90'S Dance
Pacha Ibiza 2009
Annual 2010
Truth Is Love

 
Associated Artists and Works
Various Artists
LateNightTales ~ Various Artists

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 11/07/2000
Original Release Date : 2000
Catalog ID : 50460
Label : Astralwerks (Record Label)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00724385046025

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (1/4/01, p.107)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000" - "...Booty-shaking tracks surrounded by gospel-charged songs....irresistible..."

Spin (12/00, pp.213-4)
- 6 out of 10 - "...A post-masterpiece puzzler....it finds an edge and cuts itself open, almost shocked at its own capacity to say something new..."

Spin (12/00, pp.213-4)
- 6 out of 10 - "...A post-masterpiece puzzler....it finds an edge and cuts itself open, almost shocked at its own capacity to say something new..."

Entertainment Weekly (11/10/00, p.88)
- "...An assortment of sampled or live funk-soul brothers, from Bootsy Collins to the more obscure Roland Clark...wed to club-ready tracks that are grittier, loopier, and more driving than...YOU"VE COME A LONG WAY BABY..." - Rating: B-

Entertainment Weekly (11/10/00, p.88)
- "...An assortment of sampled or live funk-soul brothers, from Bootsy Collins to the more obscure Roland Clark...wed to club-ready tracks that are grittier, loopier, and more driving than...YOU"VE COME A LONG WAY BABY..." - Rating: B-

Q (1/01, p.90)
- Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000".

Q (12/00, p.122)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Dance music for grown-ups..."

Q (1/01, p.90)
- Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000".

Q (12/00, p.122)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Dance music for grown-ups..."

Alternative Press (12/00, p.89)
- 3 out of 5 - "...A genteel album that's as typified by expansive breakbeats and dirty funk as it is by hard dance rhythms and Big-Beat nostalgia..."

Alternative Press (12/00, p.89)
- 3 out of 5 - "...A genteel album that's as typified by expansive breakbeats and dirty funk as it is by hard dance rhythms and Big-Beat nostalgia..."

Muzik (11/00, p.83)
- 5 out of 5 - "... Deeper and more introspective....Both thumping and atmospheric, every groove is permeated with a warm glow..."

Muzik (11/00, p.83)
- 5 out of 5 - "... Deeper and more introspective....Both thumping and atmospheric, every groove is permeated with a warm glow..."

Melody Maker (11/14/00, p.51)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Dares to go out on a potential lethal limb....Old-skool Fatboy fans will lap up the gritty, Prodigy-esque 'Yo Mama' and the kooky, slap-happy beats of 'Weapon Of Choice'..."

Melody Maker (11/14/00, p.51)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Dares to go out on a potential lethal limb....Old-skool Fatboy fans will lap up the gritty, Prodigy-esque 'Yo Mama' and the kooky, slap-happy beats of 'Weapon Of Choice'..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(12/00, p.114)
- "...Great pop music..."

Mojo (Publisher)
(12/00, p.114)
- "...Great pop music..."

NME (Magazine)
(11/4/00, p.45)
- 9 out of 10 - "...It's ace! True Fatboy concrete handbag-style disco-metal!! Yeah!..."

NME (Magazine)
(11/4/00, p.45)
- 9 out of 10 - "...It's ace! True Fatboy concrete handbag-style disco-metal!! Yeah!..."

Rolling Stone 8 of 10
Where other electronica whizzes chase dance microgenres down futuristic blind alleys, Norman "Fatboy Slim" Cook mines riffs from every era like a hip-hop DJ... But Cook isn't just partying on. He's partying to transcend. - Jon Pareles
 

 
Bio
With Fatboy Slim albums, the clue is always in the title, and Norman Cook's third outing is no exception. While You've Come A Long Way, Baby was one long whoop of triumph, Halfway Between The Gutter And The Starsis the sound of a person taking stock of their life. Norman was staying at LA's Chateau Marmont hotel, when the title came to him. Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston had come along to see him DJ the night before, Bill Murray said hello in the lobby and the pop star life was his for the taking. But as for Norman himself? "I was wandering around sweating and shaking, not having been to bed for about two days," he remembers with a wry grin. "And I was thinking, 'You can take the boy out of the gutter but you can't take the gutter out of the boy'." When you remember that the whole Fatboy Slim alias started out as a fun side project to help launch the hip UK label, Skint, and have a laugh making party records to DJ with, no wonder Norman has found the last couple of years surreal. You've Come A Long Way Baby wasn't just a great record--it was a pop phenomenon that made him the world's biggest dance artist and redefined the concept of the superstar DJ. He was the biggest British artist in the US last year. During those two rollercoaster years, everyone from Madonna to Robbie Williams was bidding for his remixing talents, his kitchen shelf groaned with trophies and virtually every weekend found him jetting off to major DJ gigs and award ceremonies. "I'm not moaning about it but I definitely had pop star fatigue," he reflects. "The pressure of being in the limelight all the time was beginning to take its toll. For about three months my job was to go to awards ceremonies. When that was all I did, and I wasn't making any music I was getting hacked off with what my life had become. I'm not very good at being a celebrity." In 1999 he played two defining events: the boxing-themed face-off with Armand Van Helden at London's Brixton Academy, and a legendary show with The Chemical Brothers at Red Rocks, Colorado (the first time these superstar artists performed together in America), which effectively closed a chapter in his career. Time to move on. As the new year dawned Norman ventured back into his home studio in Brighton, England to make the most emotional, innovative album of his career: Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars. "I thought, 'Actually maybe I can do something with a bit more power and soul rather than just thrills and spills'. When I started this album I just sat there for about a month thinking what I didn't want it to sound like. It took ages to work out what I did want it to sound like."
 

  
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