FC Kahuna (or FC/Kahuna) is the name of a DJ and electronic musicproduction duo consisting of Jon Nowell and Daniel Ormondroyd. They are also known as "Jon and Dan Kahuna." For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ...
Pioneers of the big beat sound, Dan and John Kahuna first came to prominence in the 1990's, Dan contributing DJ skills and Jon being better known for his business sense. (Other notable big beat artists include the Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim.) The pair worked mainly behind the scenes, contributing to a wide variety of other albums, before finally releasing their own, Machine Says Yes, in 2002. Big beat (also Big Beat, or sometimes chemical breaks) is a term devised in the mid 1990s by the British music press, as a way of describing the work of The Chemical Brothers, but was defined by the work of Fatboy Slim. ... The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo, comprised of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. ... Fatboy Slim Fatboy Slim (born Quentin Leo Cook on July 16, 1963, also known as Norman Cook) is an English musician in the dance music genre. ...
Their work is featured on the Layer Cake soundtrack. Their piece called Glitterball has been featured in the game Need For Speed: Underground Layer Cake (also spelled L4YER CAK3) is a 2004 British gangster thriller, directed by Matthew Vaughn. ... Need for Speed: Underground is a racing video game, developed and published by Electronic Arts in 2003. ...
Daniel Ormondroyd and Jon Nowell were young ravers lucky enough to be in the north of England during the height of Acid House; six years later, they were grizzled club vets lucky enough to be finding their feet in London when the Heavenly Social wiped the Capitol's clubbing slate clean.
But what really kills are the dynamics, the way the Kahunas suck the song through multiple dancefloor-detonating cycles without ever resorting to clichéd wind-ups and drumrolls.
It lacks the melodic suckerpunch of the best songs here, but its sinister lurches and endlessly unraveling structure were always an indication of Dan and Jon's desire to capture the dynamics of the dancefloor in songs, rather than just looped-up tracks.
Forget the Chemical Brothers; British producer/DJs Dan and John Kahuna really are brothers, and this, their debut LP, plays like a tour of electronica, venturing from electro to disco to acid to downtempo.
FCKahuna have aimed scandalously high with this record, and they've not been found wanting.
FCKahuna tracks revel in the duo's simple blurbs of sound and less-is-more sonics.
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