Beats International

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Beats International were a British dance music band and hip-hop collective,[1] formed in the late 1980s by Norman Cook (later in his career known as Fatboy Slim) based in Brighton, East Sussex, England, after his departure from the Housemartins.[2]

A loose confederation of musicians, the line-up also included vocalist Lindy Layton, former North of Cornwallis vocalist Lester Noel, rappers DJ Baptiste (The Crazy MC), MC Wildski and keyboardist Andy Boucher.[2] Unusually, the band's live line-up also incorporated a graffiti artist, REQ, who painted designs on a backdrop while the musicians played.[3]

Biography

After having a few small hits under his own name such as "Blame It on the Bassline", a 1989 hip-house crossover single featuring MC Wildski,[4] and "For Spacious Lies"[5] with Lester Noel, Cook decided that further releases would be under the collective name "Beats International" – just one of the names he went on to use in the 1990s.

Beats International's debut studio album, Let Them Eat Bingo included these solo hits and the original version of "Won't Talk About It" which featured Billy Bragg singing in a soulful falsetto.[3] The album also spawned the UK number-one single "Dub Be Good to Me", a re-working of the SOS Band's chart-topper "Just Be Good to Me", based on a sample of the bassline from the Clash's "Guns of Brixton".[3] This song was the first to be credited under the Beats International name and featured sometime actor Layton on vocals.[6][2]

The collective followed their number-one single with a re-recorded version of "Won't Talk About It", which replaced Billy Bragg's vocal with that of Layton and Noel, and "Burundi Blues", a track which featured samples of Bessie Jones, the Thrashing Doves and, on the album version, Brian Cant's introduction from Camberwick Green.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The second Beats International album was 1991's Excursion on the Version, which featured a greater use of dub and reggae sounds, but failed to repeat the success of its predecessor.[3] This was the final Beats International recording, with Cook next going on to form Freak Power.[2]

Discography

Albums

Year Album UK
[7][8] 		AUS
[9] 		US
[10]
1990 Let Them Eat Bingo
17
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1991 Excursion on the Version
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Norman Cook singles

Year Title Peak chart positions
UK
[11] 		NZ
[12]
1989 "Won't Talk About It"/"Blame It on the Bassline"[II] 29 36
"For Spacious Lies" 48 -

Note: these singles are from "Let Them Eat Bingo" and would be re-credited to Beats International on this album.

Singles

Year Single Peak positions Album
UK
[7] 		NED BEL
(FLA) 		FRA GER
[13] 		AUT SWI SWE AUS
[9][14][15] 		US
[16]
1990 "Dub Be Good to Me" 1 2 5 19 4 2 6 10 12 76 Let Them Eat Bingo
"Won't Talk About It" 9 28 — — 26 27 24 — 70 76
"Burundi Blues" 51 70 — — — — — — — —
"For Spacious Lies" (France only) — — — — — — — — — —
1991 "Echo Chamber" 60 — — — — — — — 169 — Excursion on the Version
"The Sun Doesn't Shine" 66 — — — 87 — — — 165 —
"In the Ghetto" 44 — — — 89 — — — 142 —
1992 "Change Your Mind" (US only) — — — — — — — — — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.

Samples list

Let Them Eat Bingo
  • "Burundi Dub"
  • "Dub Be Good to Me"
  • "Blame It on the Bassline"
    • "Get into Something" by Isley Brothers / phrase "Come on now / give the drummer some"
  • "Won't Talk About It"
  • "Dance to the Drummer's Beat"
  • "Tribute to King Tubby"
Excursion on the Version

See also

References

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