Fatboy Slim will be forever preserved in the mainstream pop culture annals as that funk soul brother who all but left so-called “electronica” behind as he crafted commercial-ready dance hits.

When director Spike Jonze was preparing his first movie, “Being John Malkovich,” 20 years ago, he couldn’t stop listening to “The Rockafeller Skank,” otherwise known as “The Funk Soul Brother,” a hit ...