Album Review: Fatboy Slim - Big Beach Bootique 5

This June, 40,000 packed into a stadium in Brighton on a rather rainy evening to revel in the fifth instalment of Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim)'s open-air Big Beach Bootique gigs. This CD and DVD of the event offers 90 minutes crammed with quality acid house, showcasing FBS's technical genius and showmanship.

Throughout the concert, FBS manages to maintain wide appeal by mixing in tunes such as Bart B More's F**K You remix, Bohemian Rhapsody and Donna Summer's I Feel Love. Crowd pleasers like Star 69, Build It Up and Praise You are a delight but the sleeve's track listing doesn't cover it all with quite a few surprises to be had including a mix of Fatboy's re-edit of Bust 'Em Up with Prodigy's Out Of Space. Right Here Right Now is masterfully mashed in with Danzel's Put Your Hands Up In The Air and there's a remix of Cedric Gervais's banging acid track, Molly, with a cheeky reworking of the original lyrics. The stage show itself is impressive, not least of all for the purpose-built 600sqm LED video screen wall but also for the man in question's on-stage antics. The DVD's filming seamlessly merges crowd and stage work with more creative, trippy film clip elements while the FBS acid house mascot (FBS himself, no less) gets up to some mischief on the streets of Brighton.

By the end of the set, newcomers and fans alike will be completely in awe of how effortlessly FBS brings together such a dense psychedelic selection of mayhem using so many different sources. Fatboy doesn't merely mix, he makes magic.