http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/interview-fatboy-slim-on -going-digital-as-a-dj-and-as-a-producer-546858

It's funny... reading this has made me realize that it's never musical instruments that inspire me. I get inspired by people, occurrences, little things in daily life, nature. The instrument is just a tool to get the music that's in my head out there.


He also said this, by the way:

"Look... please don't make me out to be a moaning old Luddite who doesn't want to change. Yes, I am a bit of a moaning old Luddite, but I'm not against 'change' per se. I don't think that the Atari and the Akai are the only legitimate tools to make music. Ableton is a fantastic piece of kit. I just haven't found a way to link my creative urges to working with a laptop. It'll come. I'm almost there."

Don't want to be too negative, but is there any relevance to Fatboy Slim now? He's done some great things in the past, and deserves full credits for that, but now it's 2012 and I haven't seen any bigbeat revival party yet...luckily.
Maybe I'm wrong, but what was the last great record from him? Produced in a time when we all used atari's? Time flies....

sometimes i get inspired by a speficif patch... or a loop.. or by another song itself

Is it Fatboy or Fanboy Slim?

Doesn't Norman still use Cubase with Atari ST, I guess on that platform software synthesis is not so developed

A very sad way to try to discredit his opinion.

I don't remember there being dinosaurs walking the earth 20 years ago (apart from prog rock dinosaurs of course).

i learned it doesnt matter and the hardware vs. software blabbering gets on my nerves so i normally dont talk about it anymore, some people (seem) to know what is made with hardware and some not, in the end who cares if the music is great?
makes no one better, people use in the end with what their workflow goes best.

Amen

No dissing at all, just placing questionmarks on his relevance on this subject. I do have an other opinion on this, and given the numerous releases made with "digital sounds" "taken from the internet" that do a great job on dancefloors I am doubting his opinion. Especially since I haven't heard a proper tune from him long time.

If they don't really inspire him, there are plenty of others who find them inspiring. Like Andrés Segovia wasn't really inspired by electric guitars.

What is there to doubt? Where did he ever claim that good music isn't being made with laptops and samples from the internet? He made no such argument. He's just a famous producer from a decade ago who is talking about his personal tastes in equipment and way of working. That's all it is. You are making this out to be some kind of argument that it most certainly is not.

It's basically like if Angus Young did an interview and said he didn't like the sound of Ibanez guitars, so you call his opinion invalid becasue clearly plenty of great albums have been made with Ibanez guitars, and he hasn't done anything great recently, so his opinion has no relevance. That would be a pretty stupid and pointless reaction, wouldn't it? Yet, when the subject of hardware vs software comes up, suddenly everyone gets all worked up. How dare someone say they don't like soft synths! They must be some kind of washed-up fool!
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If he gets great results from working the way he's used to of course he's best sticking with what works for him.
I'm agnostic about hardware and software, I use software on a PC but if there was a suitable workstation that didn't feel like too much of a compromise and loss compared to how I work now, I would probably use a workstation keyboard in the main.

The most interesting thing in the interview for me ,was that he only seems to be trying to switch because eveyone is telling him he has to , but it doesn't appear to be benefiting him in anyway.

Like almost every other artist , he never was releveant in certain circles. So he's as relevant now as he ever was.