Background
The album, being the first Fatboy Slim album released in four years, represented a significant shift in style for Cook, with a reduction in the traditional Fatboy Slim reliance on vocal loops, and the introduction of real instruments (Cook himself returns to his Housemartins roots by contributing live bass on some tracks, with engineer/mixer/executive producer Simon Thornton also adding guitar) and more conventional song structures. More "traditional" Fatboy Slim tracks such as "Jin Go Lo Ba" co-exist with full-length vocal tracks such as a rendition of the Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" performed by Bootsy Collins. There are also many more vocal collaborations, including two with the rapper Lateef ("Wonderful Night" and "The Journey") and Brighton-based band Jonny Quality ("Long Way from Home").
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