Fatboy Slim debut album reissued for 30th anniversary
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Fatboy Slim’s debut album Better Living Through Chemistry is set for a 30th-anniversary reissue, with a digital release on 25 September and special LP and CD editions on 2 October via BMG. The renewed release gives Norman Cook’s first album under the Fatboy Slim name another profile, revisiting a record that helped launch his later commercial success and the wider British electronic-music boom.
Originally released in 1996, the album included “Everybody Needs a 303”, “Punk to Funk” and “Going Out of My Head”, and reached No. 69 on the UK Albums Chart. Cook said the record captured his early experiments and mistakes, drawing inspiration from his Big Beat Boutique nights in Brighton; its follow-up, You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, spent four weeks at No. 1 in 1998.
- Fatboy Slim’s debut receives a 30th-anniversary reissue.
- Digital release arrives on 25 September.
- Physical editions follow on 2 October.
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Norman Cook is a British DJ, producer and musician who records as Fatboy Slim. Before adopting that name, he had worked in several bands and made dance music under other aliases, building a reputation in the UK club scene.
Better Living Through Chemistry was his first album as Fatboy Slim. It combined sampled sounds, breakbeats and dance rhythms, reflecting the rise of electronic music in Britain during the 1990s.
The record came before Fatboy Slim became internationally known through later hits and albums. It is therefore seen as an early part of the project’s development and of Cook’s move towards a larger mainstream audience.
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Originally published by Billboard as “Fatboy Slim’s ‘Better Living Through Chemistry’ Gets 30th Anniversary Release”.