Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin

What this video is

Released October 1998 at the commercial zenith of UK big beat, 'Gangster Trippin' arrived as the second single from Fatboy Slim's landmark album You've Come a Long Way, Baby and charted at No. 3 in the UK. The video's destruction-of-domestic-objects conceit plugged directly into a late-1990s countercultural visual language of anti-consumerism and controlled chaos, while the Antonioni Zabriskie Point homage elevated…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of big beat's visual identity: the genre's combination of hip-hop sample culture, breakbeat energy, and art-damaged aesthetics is mirrored in a video that is simultaneously maximal (explosions, destruction) and minimal (no narrative, no performer). Represents the late-1990s…

The director

Roman François Coppola (born April 22, 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is an American filmmaker, music video director, screenwriter, and producer. Son of Francis Ford Coppola, he co-founded The Directors Bureau production company in 1996. He directed music…