Comments on: Ask Norm

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:16:59 +0000

Sweet, my brother. See you at the amex!

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:16:37 +0000

I think it is very easy to get bogged down by having too much technology/options in front of you. That is why is still use an atari running c-lab creator in the studio. I’m aware that it is an antique in tech terms but I know it inside out and it does everything I need in the studio. I’m starting to mess about with ableton live when I’m on the road but though it is very handy I find it mind boggling how much there is to learn and get sidetracked by……

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:16:00 +0000

We’ll look into it. How it works though is you wait to be invited rather than piling in!

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:15:06 +0000

I don’t think such a thing exists, my friend…

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:14:45 +0000

Favourite party has got to be any of the ones on brighton beach. The sun shone, everybody danced and on the stroke of midnight halle berry jumped out of a cake half clothed and asked me to marry her….
Favourite pastry is a mushroom quiche from our local french patisserie
I thought the flaps were sown up. I’m a briefs man, me…..

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:13:51 +0000

Sadly you can’t dance during my sets, vee, but I will marry you.

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:13:13 +0000

David, 1. Having multiple names/acts meant I could have more than one record out at once in slightly different music. Also no-one really knew who I was or what I looked like (for a while) fat boy slim kinda killed the whole thing off, sadly by taking up all my time and letting people know who I was.
2.when I switched from vinyl I didn’t trust computers. All my friends recommended serato over traktor coz it was more reliable in those days. I think nowadays they all work quite well but I’ve got to know and love serato (especially the video function) over the years..

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:12:27 +0000

It was a pleasure. It’s a fine tune. Thank you.

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:12:11 +0000

Ha ha. You watch closely, my friend. The cdj’s play a time code into a rane ttm57 mixer which triggers the audio files and the video at the same time. The audio then goes through a pioneer djm 900 mixer because I really like the effects on it. I tape a lump of plastic over the middle section of the rane mixer coz it has too many complicated buttons that reverse the faders etc which I sometimes press by mistake in the dark. It’s quite hard to see up there when the strobes and shit are going off onstage and if I feel my way in the dark it is possible to press buttons which do very bad things! Serato and rane are currently customising a new 61 mixer to remove the offending buttons from my reach…..

By: fatboyslim

fatboyslim — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:11:24 +0000

I’m 48, steve. And ultra was a great show for me too. What a splendid crowd….