Fatboy Slim VS Armand Van Helden

This is a live show that i saw before thru somewhere that i can't really remember. It was an extraordinary liveset by 2 top DJ in the world Fatboy Slim VS. Armand Van Helden. This livest was held in Brixton Academy in year 1999. Both of them were spinning on a boxing ring! Its was a 3 round spinning session starting by Armand Van Helden on the 1st round with a 64 minutes of spinning. 2nd round was Fatboy Slim turn with a 68 minutes of funky big beat! The 3rd and last round was the climax of the show, Fatboy Slim and Armand Van Helden team up spinning in ring!!!


Even though this is a 9 years ago show, but i believe there is not many people knowing about this unless your are hardcore Armand or Fatboy fans :D Check the bottom of the page, the link will redirect you to a page for the liveset in mp3 for download. Cheers!!!

Review

A Date With Destiny - Fatboy Slim vs. Armand van Helden


Big Beat Boutique


Brixton Acadamy - Friday 11th June 1999. Cut La Roc Support

The camera crews at the door indicate that something very special is happening tonight, as you walk upto Brixton Acadamy past hundreds of fans desperate to get their hands on the last few tickets for a once in a lifetime opportunity to see two of the worlds biggest DJs in action - at the same time. Cut La Roc is already entertaining the quickly expanding crowd on the dance floor (there is no stage or anything like that - just a full scale rotating boxing ring, with a huge rig of video screens hovering above it. Throughout the night these screens are filled with live streams of the DJs in action, and the resultant ker-azy dancing from the people lucky enough to be ring-side. Like me. Full shots of my face were subjected to the thousands of die-hard fatboy-fans, at least twenty or thirty times we looked up to see our faces the size of a two story building - it pays to get there early for a gig like this. Cut La Roc seemed to have a great time warming the crowd up - he’s one of the friendliest DJs I have met in recent times - it was strange that I was one of only a handful of people interested in talking to him as he was packing his gear up, as he has the world record breaking talent to be one of the big stars of the future - from Skint’s beginnings he’s always been second only to Fatboy Slim as far as I’m concerned, and his new mix album FSUK4* reiterates this.

To much applause and cheering, Armand Van Helden enters the ring from one side, accompanied by an understandably large group of security men, and a geezer wielding the star-spangled banner. The unexpectedly short Van Helden drops his silk gown and removes his boxing gloves to reveal he’s dressed up for the part - customised basketball top, loads of jewellery - everything about him says ‘I’m trendy, me’. On the giant video screens we now see Norman Cook entering the ring from the other side of the arena. The crowd goes radio rental. Norman disrobes to reveal.. a Hawaiian shirt and jeans… and no-one bats an eye-lid. Norm and Armand start the theatrics at the front of the ring - forehead against forehead they stare each other out during the coin-toss to decide who will attempt to win over the crowd for an hour with their Dj-ing skills first. Armand wins the toss and elects to go first, and immediately sets about playing an impressive hour-long set of new york house an garage, starting with his forthcoming single The Boogie Monster. However impressed the crowd is with Armand’s DJ antics, they don’t really get going until he plays his number one hit single You Don’t Know Me, then die down again until Brixton boys Basement Jaxx’ Rendez-vu is dropped as a set closer.

To yet more applause Norman Cook arrives, and thrusts a litre bottle of vodka in the air - the crowd respond to every action he makes - Fatboy Slim is the Robbie Williams of the DJ world - a natural performer, with heaps of talent. On the dance-floor a whole different mood has been created just by Norman’s appearance - everyone spent the whole hour jumping up and down like an extremely happy yo-yo. Tracks incorporated in probably the best hour of live mixing I’ve heard all year, included that Des Lynam cover of Rockafeller Skank, Fucking In Heaven, Chemical Brother’s Hey Boy Hey Girl, Leftfield’s Phat Planet, Everybody Needs A 303, Right Here Right Now, Fatboy Eminem (Hi My Name Is The Funk Soul Brother), Satisfaction Skank (I Can’t Get No Funk Soul Brother), Kung Fu Fighting, and even the Kinks made a much welcomed appearance towards the end of the set.

After 4 hours, what we’d all been waiting for began - Ambidextrous - Armand Van Helden on the right deck, Fatboy Slim on the left deck for two hours, non-stop tunes from the likes of Bob Marley, plus many other peculiar choices including TLC - No Scrubs, Jungle Brothers - I’ll House You ‘98, Tori Amos - Professional Widow, Wildchild - Renegade Master (Original), You Don’t Know Me (Again), and Praise You as a very fitting finish to the event of the year. Although most people considered it to be Norman’s night, it wouldn’t have been half as fun without Armand (With his endless supply of tricks, including slowing down one record to about 10BPM, then speeding it back up to 300BPM or so, whilst mixing it with another top track) or Cut La Roc for that matter - as there was effectively two hours of Fatboy Slim, we didn’t get bored for one minute.

copyright francis madeira 1999


Fatboy Slim VS Armand Van Helden Live At Brixton Academy 1999 (MP3 Download)

Details:

Part1: Armand (73,1MB, 63.54min.)
Part2: Fatboy (77,8MB, 68.02min.)
Part3: Versus (25,2MB, 22.04min.)
MPEG 1.0 layer 3
160kbit
44100Hz Stereo

Round 1 - Armand Van Helden

Round 2 - Fatboy Slim

Round 3 - Armand Van Helden Vs Fatboy Slim

Super thanks to http://www.normancook.info/

***UPDATE with MP3 on 15 JAN 2012***

http://scornfederation.blogspot.com/2012/01/fatboy-slim-vs-armand-van-helden-in.html

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