''The Main Event'' is the debut album by

Fingathing Fingathing are an English electronic music group, comprising classically trained double bass player Simon 'Sneaky' Houghton, DJ/turntablist Dan 'Peter Parker' Baxter and Visual Artist Chris Cavetroll Drury. History Peter Parker was a finalist ...

. It was released in 2000 on

Grand Central Records Grand Central Records was an independent record label based in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, England. It was started in 1995 by DJ Mark Rae (who, along with Steve Christian makes up the duo Rae & Christian). Rae started out working as ...

Production

The album was produced by Fingathing's DJ Peter Parker and Sneaky; Parker provided the scratching, and Sneaky played double bass. Many of the tracks are about wrestling.

Critical reception

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wrote that "it's rare that discs released by scratch or battle DJs ever hold a candle to their respective live performances, but here Fingathing definitely defy convention." ''

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'' wrote that some of the songs "are lushly atmospheric, while others have the rudimentary feel and brutal minimalism of earliest hip hop."

Track listing

# "Intro" – 0:43 # "Check It Out" – 2:58 # "Big Monsters Crush Cities" – 5:56 # "Come On Girls" – 1:50 # "Head To Head" – 4:08 # "How To Smoke" (featuring

DJ Noize Kim Sæther (born 1975 at Lille Skensved, near Køge), better known as DJ Noize is a Copenhagen-based Danish hip-hop- DJ. His company, Noizeworks places all his activities under one moniker. Career DJ Noize started scratching in his local youth cl ...

) – 4:11 # "Slappy's Tune" – 2:22 # "Just Practice" (featuring

Mr. Scruff Andrew Carthy (born 10 February 1972), better known by his stage name Mr. Scruff, is an English record producer and DJ. He lives in Stretford, Greater Manchester and studied fine art at the Psalter Lane campus of Sheffield Hallam University. ...

) – 3:52 # "Big Kid" – 2:40 # "Remember This?" – 0:48 # "You Fly Me" – 3:11 # "Ffathead" – 3:20 # "Slippin" (featuring Veba) – 5:14 # "A Light Refreshment" – 1:11 # "Crowd Pleasers" (featuring

) – 3:42 # "Ffling" – 3:42 # "The Final Bout" – 5:07

References

Grand Central Records albums Fingathing albums 2000 albums {{2000-hiphop-album-stub