fatboy slim - first down

"first down" comes from norman cook aka fatboy slim's first album "better living through chemistry" and is like most of the track on the record, a funky groove assembled through an array of samples. it isn't by any stretch one of the most obvious tracks on the album like "punk to funk" or "everybody needs a 303" but when i heard it again a few days, i certainly thought that it was damn funky.

it's constructed mostly out of the groove of fela kuti's 1972 piece "roforofo fight" and follows in the mold of "everybody needs a 303". different loops and samples are brought on and it drops the first time for a introduction of a some phased keys that then gets lost in the mix but they are nice in the groove. the real drop comes halfway in and it's stripped down to bongos and you hear that fuzzy waggle from the silver box. norman lets it grow and explode right when the full beat is kicked in along with the trumpet.

while this one isn't completely original, it's does what it does well. kind of like the modus operandi of this blog.

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