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FATBOY SLIM NABS TWO GRAMMY NOMINATIONS!

   New York, NY-Fatboy Slim can add two more Grammy nominations to his resume of critical accolades. The album, "Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars" has received a nomination for "Best Alternative Music Album" and the video for "Weapon of Choice" has been nominated for "Best Short Form Music Video", as announced today by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles.

   The video, directed by Spike Jonze and featuring Christopher Walken doing a light-footed dance number in a Hollywood hotel, also racked up the most wins at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2001. The video received six awards including "Best Direction" and "Breakthrough Video". The song also features vocals from Bootsy Collins of Parliament-Funkadelic fame.

   If you STILL haven't seen the video by now, you can check it out on

   http://www.astralwerks.com/fbs/woc/ .

   This is not the first time Fatboy has been given a nod by the Grammy's. He received two nominations in 2000 for "Best Alternative Music Performance" and "Best Dance Recording" from his platinum album, "You've Come A Long Way, Baby".

    The 44th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony will be broadcast on CBS on February 27th, in Los Angeles.

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   DJ Rap's Propa Classics Volume 1 which was recently released on Intuit-Solar and is available for download on EMusic. This record is chock full of the tracks that first put Rap on the map. Most of these tracks were released on very limited quantity vinyl and appear on CD for the first time here.
   Additionally there is a remix of Rap's hit "Spiritual Aura" by Rap and her original cohorts on the track, the Freestylers. This set is a must for DJ Rap fans!
   Check out the special "tric" web page Intuit-Solar put together for this release at http://www.getatric.com/djrap/default.asp?cardid=48 . It contains
a ton of info and photos along with the Spiritual Aura" 2001 video.

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   Felix Da Housecat Dates!!
his amazing new album, "Kittenz & Thee Glitz",
comes out on January 22 on Emperor Norton.

January
18 Atlanta, Georgia - Eleven 50
19 New York, New York - Hammerstein Ballroom
20 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Bash
25 Minneapolis, Minnesota - Sursumcorda
26 Dallas, Texas - Lizard Lounge

February
01 Chicago, Illinois - Crobar the Nightclub
02 Denver, Colorado - Vinyl Nightclub
07 Santa Monica, California - Sugar
08 Seattle, Washington - I.Spy Nation
09 San Francisco, California - 1050 Folsom
16 Detroit, Michigan - Motor Lounge
20 Las Vegas, Nevada - Magic Expo 2002
22 Washington D.C. - Nation
 

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