Before Where The Wild Things Are, though, Jonze made some of the most interesting music videos in recent memory, including videos for Daft Punk, The Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim, The Pharcyde and UNKLE.

Here are 5 memorable Spike Jonze videos:

Daft Punk’s Da Funk

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The Beastie Boys’ Sabotage

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Fatboy Slim’s Weapon Of Choice

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The Pharcyde’s Drop

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UNKLE’s Heaven

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Here’s a classic from Fatboy Slim, the music video for Right Here, Right Now.

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Mashup Fatboy Slim & NWA, and you get an unusually bouncy hard core rap.

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Reports have circulated that Cook entered a specialist clinic on Monday, with his manager Garry Blackburn confirming this in an official statement. “It’s all pretty straightforward,” he explained. “He has gone in voluntarily to sort out his drinking problem.”

This comes after a “problematic performance” at the Good Vibrations festival in Australia, where Cook was reportedly “clearly intoxicated”.

Let’s hope the funk soul brother works this out.

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Fatboy Slim plans to release his first album in four years,  I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat, using his new Brighton Port Authority identity. 

The release features a guest vocalist on each track, ranging from David Byrne to Iggy Pop to Martha Wainwright. It’s scheduled for release February 3rd.

Tracks:

• He’s Frank (ft. Iggy Pop)
• Dirty Sheets (ft. Pete York)
• Jumps the Fence (ft. Conan)
• Should I Stay or Should I Blow (ft. Ashley Beedle)
• Island (ft. Justin Robertson)
• Local Town (ft. Jamie T)
• Seattle (ft. Emmy the Great)
• Spade (ft. Martha Wainwright)
• Superman (ft. Simon Thornton)
• Superlover (ft. Thom Gandey)
• Toe Jam (ft. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal)
• So It Goes (ft. Olly Hite)

Can it have been 10 years already?

Disc 1 is a rerelease of the original release, while Disc 2 is a bonus disk with tracks from Blade 2, Moulin Rouge and even a Kraftwerk cover. 

Sounds like fun.

Tracklist
CD 1
01. Right Here, Right Now
02. The Rockafeller Skank
03. Fucking in Heaven
04. Gangster Tripping
05. Build It Up – Tear It Down
06. Kalifornia
07. Soul Surfing
08. You’re Not from Brighton
09. Praise You
10. Love Island
11. Acid 8000

CD 2
01. Cowboy
02. Radioactivity 
03. Because We Can 
04. Always Read the Label
05. Tweakers Delight 
06. The World Went Down
07. Jack It Up (DJ Delite) 
08. Don’t Forget Your Teeth
09. Praise You (Original Version) 
10. Lounge Island

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He may be a superstar DJ, but the Mail Online is ready to write him off as “ageing fast”, and ready to send to the glue factory:

There wasn’t much youthful-looking about Fatboy Slim, who hit 45 last month, as he came back from his latest DJing jaunt at the weekend.

Mail Online has learned that Cook, who lives with his wife and son Woody on the coast in Brighton, is suffering from debilitating back pain after years of lugging heavy records round the world in a bag slung over his shoulder.

He told a passenger on the flight from Olbia to Gatwick: ‘All the long flights and all the gigging have taken their toll.

The DJ looked exhausted coming off the flight, and also showed his hair has turned almost completely grey.

But that is just perhaps that is just what a life of hard-partying does to you.

They’re pretty harsh on Fatboy, but let’s face it – electronic music artists and fans alike are getting older.

WIll anybody want to go to the club to see grandpa spinning the disks in five years? Fortunately, most of us don’t have to worry about that. And remember, Grandma Techno is still at it.

Cook’s pop approach to techno has made him one of the leading techno artists. Cook builds his tracks from almost nothing. He takes a few samples and speeds them, slows them, and slices and dices them until the original sound is twisted into rhythmic noise. On top of his manipulated samples, he lays down big beat grooves that turn his almost avant-garde sound manipulation into danceable tunes.

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby has some of Fatboy’s most popular tracks on it. “The Rockafeller Skank” is one of those tunes that is immediately likeable and sticks in your head. The track features a sample of the words “Right about now, the Funk Soul Brother. Check it out, now, the Funk Soul Brother.” That’s it for the lyrics, but Slim manipulates the sample in so many ways that it makes the song unforgettably catchy.

“Praise You” is the closest thing to a straight pop song on the CD. The lyrics are simple and direct:

“We’ve come a long long way together,
Through the hard times and the good,
I have to celebrate you baby,
I have to praise you like I should”

On the chorus, Slim takes the phrase “I have to praise you”, and repeats it over another groove. The combination of catchy beats, techno-sliced vocal samples, and reverential love lyrics make it a great cut.

The other tracks use similar techniques to create big-beat dance tunes. Other great tracks are “Right Here, Right Now”. It uses a wordless chorus and string samples to back up a female rapper shouting the title lyrics. “You’re Not from Brighton” reworks the old-school lo-fi sampledelic sound that groups like the Beastie Boys and De La Soul perfected in the 80’s.

Unfortunately, one track will make most listeners reach for the remote. “Fatboy Slim is Fucking in Heaven” repeats the obnoxious sample over and over. If it were provocative or sexy, the track might be interesting, but it’s just monotonous repetition of the title:

“Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven
Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven
Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven”

The last track, “Acid 8000″ is a techno track, heavy on the 303. Slim always seems to throw on a 303 techno track, and for that, we have to praise him like we should. Slim takes a TB-303 bassline, a drum machine and a handful of samples and turns it into a driving cut that techno fans will appreciate. “If this don’t make your booty move, your booty must be dead!”

On You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby, he’s at the top of his form, delivering big-beat cuts for dancing and driving.

There’s a lot to like on Better Living Through Chemistry. He samples from a variety of artists, and uses the samples in unique ways. Some are well-known riffs, like the guitar hook from the Who’s “Can’t Explain”. Others you probably won’t recognize, but are catchy as well. Slim’s tracks are less trance-like than many loop-based bands, such as the Chemical Brothers. His cuts are relatively short, and often have a lot of variety to them, and song-like structures.

There are several standout cuts on the album . Who can argue with Fatboy Slim when he suggests that “Everybody Needs a 303″, in an acid ode to the TB 303? I can’t. Too bad there aren’t enough to go around.

“Give the Po’ Man a Break” takes that phrase and turns it into a catchy chorus. “The Weekend Starts Here” stakes out different territory with its jazzy sampled feel. This cut is a good example of the way Slim delivers a variety of grooves, unlike many techno artists.

The weakest cut is probably “Michael Jackson”. This has some interesting sample work on it, but the lack of depth make the song become tiresome.

Slim’s loop-based style is in abundance on this CD, and there’s more than enough beats, 303 bassline, and catchy hooks to keep dance electronica fans happy.