Hamish Brown
The Chemical Brothers
Big beat electro pioneersThe progenitors of Big Beat.
Few artists have done as much, or been as successful, at elevating the mainstream status of electronic music on a global level than The Chemical Brothers. Since they released their first full-length (Exit Planet Dust) back in 1995, the Manchester-based duo of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons has morphed from simply being another pair of high profile club DJs into a stadium-selling dance act. The band’s sample-heavy electro music inspired the term “big beat,” an apt descriptor for music that typically relies heavily on epic drum sounds and songs that almost always build towards euphoric, dance-floor-friendly crescendos. After finding mainstream success with 1997’s Dig Your Own Hole, the band came to rely heavily on a series of high profile guest vocalists like Liam Gallagher and Beth Orton on subsequent releases. However, 2010’s Further finds the band getting back to their roots: artfully produced, psychedelic electro-pop equally suited for nightclubs or private headphone listening trips.
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