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The BPA or "The Brighton Port Authority" is an alias for musician Norman Cook who is better known as Fatboy Slim. The act debuted in 2008 with a collaboration with David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal titled "Toe Jam", along with a video featuring nude dancers with censor bars on them, making pictures and words with them.The soundtrack album for the TV series Heroes also includes BPA's track "He's Frank", with Iggy Pop as vocalist.The band's first album I Think We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat was released January 6, 2009 exclusively at amazon.com on CD, with downloadable format and other stores scheduled for a month later on February 3.

Although it has been pretty badly received by critics, I am a big fan of this album. It is, as Billboard (pretty much the only positive reviewer) says, brilliantly produced by Norman Cook, and the guest vocalists all work very well. It is much more chilled out than anything Cook ever did as Fatboy, some of the tracks are even Zero 7 esque in their production (Superlover). Would love to see the BPA at glasto this year, with at least some of the guest vocalists, would be pretty perfect.

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