Though Fatboy Slim, a.k.a. Norman Cook, just put the finishing touches on his upcoming album, "Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars," earlier this week, the record's first single, "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)", is already beginning to make the rounds after being leaked on the Web.

For the song, Cook lifted a sample of late Doors frontman Jim Morrison singing a few lines of poetry from his 1978 posthumous album, "An American Prayer," a record that was issued some seven years after Morrison died of heart failure while staying at a Paris hotel.

Cook recently told MTV News that he first heard the vocal bit on a bootleg of outtakes from "American Prayer" a few years ago, then assembled a rough version of "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)" for an album that was circulated among his friends.

"Well, [Morrison is] not the sort of person you can just phone up and ask for a guest appearance," Cook joked.

"[As for] the idea of using that vocal," Cook continued,

Aside from the inherent spookiness of using vocals provided by a dead man, the dark and haunting tone of "Sunset (Bird Of Prey)" is a departure from the lighter, poppier material that characterized Fatboy Slim's previous effort, 1998's "You've Come A Long Way, Baby," a move that Cook noted was both intentional and necessary.

"The goofy side of what I do kind of got a bit carried away on the last album," he said,

Fatboy Slim's "Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars" is due in record stores on November 7 from Astralwerks.