| Artist: Chemical Brothers |
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Product Summary
Format: CD
Manufacturer: Astralwerks/emi Records
Buy.com Sku: 60613731
UPC: 724359271422
UPC 14: 00724359271422
Release Date: 9/30/2003
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Song Listing
Disc 1
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Disc 2
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Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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| The Chemical Brothers: Tom Rowlands, Ed Simons. | |
| Additional personnel: K-OS, The Flaming Lips. | |
| SINGLES '93-'03 is a limited edtion and contains a bonus CD. | |
| The Chemical Brothers: Tom Rowlands, Ed Simons. | |
| Additional personnel: K-OS, The Flaming Lips. | |
| Compilation producer: The Chemical Brothers. | |
| Personnel: Bernard Sumner (guitar); Mark Marinoff (clarinet). | |
| Liner Note Authors: Robin Turner; David Fricke. | |
| Recording information: Brixton Academy (03/1994-05/2001); The Roxy, New York, NY (03/1994-05/2001). | |
| Animation: Juanjo Saez. | |
| Editor: Cheeky Paul. | |
| Photographer: Toby McFarlan Pond. | |
| Celebrating 10 years of innovative electronica and party-starting dance grooves, this 13-track Chemical Brothers collection moves chronologically through the numerous highlights of the duo's recording career. Groundbreaking early singles "Song to the Siren" and "Chemical Beats" offer the first examples of their unique combination of hip-hop beats and electro-distortion hooks, before "Leave Home" ushers in the arrival of the landmark EXIT PLANET DUST album. Although SINGLES surprisingly omits "Life Is Sweet (with Tim Burgess of the Charlatans UK) and "Alive Alone" (featuring a then-unknown Beth Orton), it does includes other excellent tracks such as "Setting Sun" (one of two Noel Gallagher collaborations), "Block Rockin' Beats," "The Private Psychedelic Reel" (with Jonathan Donahue of Mercury Rev), and "The Test" (featuring Richard Ashcroft). And as outstanding icing on their birthday cake, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons present two previously unreleased tracks, the funky "Get Yourself High," and the mystic, majestic chime of "The Golden Path" (featuring the Flaming Lips). | |
Producer: The Chemical Brothers |
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Engineer: Dan Zamani; Steve Jones; The Chemical Brothers; Jonathan Dee |
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Musical Guests | |
| K-os | |
| The Flaming Lips | |
Artist Overview
The music of the Chemical Brothers, a pair of DJs who helped popularize the "Big Beat" electronic subgenre in the '90s, has the heft of rock, the groove of club music, and the spirit of experimentation that lifts all boats. Through their collaborations with rockers both massive (the Gallagher brothers of Oasis) and vaguely avant-garde (Mercury Rev), Tom Rowland and Ed Simons have helped break down the walls between rock and dance music. On "Setting Sun," one of their biggest hits, the Chemical Brothers fused elements straight out of the Beatles with electronic dance music's sonic dimensions to create something powerful and timeless, groundbreaking yet accessible.
Artist Influences
808 State | A Tribe Called Quest | Beastie Boys | Blake Baxter | Boogie Down Productions | Brian Eno | Cabaret Voltaire | Eric B. & Rakim | Joy Division | Kraftwerk | My Bloody Valentine | New Order (UK) | Public Enemy | Renegade Soundwave | Run-D.M.C. | The Beatles | The Dust Brothers | The Jesus and Mary Chain | The Velvet Underground | This Mortal Coil
808 State | A Tribe Called Quest | Beastie Boys | Blake Baxter | Boogie Down Productions | Brian Eno | Cabaret Voltaire | Eric B. & Rakim | Joy Division | Kraftwerk | My Bloody Valentine | New Order (UK) | Public Enemy | Renegade Soundwave | Run-D.M.C. | The Beatles | The Dust Brothers | The Jesus and Mary Chain | The Velvet Underground | This Mortal Coil
Artist Contemporaries
Andrew Weatherall | Armand Van Helden | Basement Jaxx | Beck | Bentley Rhythm Ace | Buckfunk 3000 | Coldcut | Cujo | Daft Punk | David Holmes | Death in Vegas | Deep Dish | Digitalism | DJ Andy Smith | DJ Icey | DJ Shadow | Djinji Brown | Everything But the Girl | Fatboy Slim | Freestylers | Future Shock | Goldie | Hardfloor | Headrillaz | Kid Loco | Kruder & Dorfmeister | Leftfield | Les Rythmes Digitales | Lionrock | Luke Slater | Massive Attack | Mekon | Monkey Mafia | Mylo | New Order (UK) | Orbital | Primal Scream | Propellerheads | Q-Burns Abstract Message | Roger Sanchez | Sneaker Pimps | Spiritualized | The Crystal Method | The Dust Brothers | The Future Sound of London | The Orb | The Prodigy | Underworld | Vitalic | Wildchild
Andrew Weatherall | Armand Van Helden | Basement Jaxx | Beck | Bentley Rhythm Ace | Buckfunk 3000 | Coldcut | Cujo | Daft Punk | David Holmes | Death in Vegas | Deep Dish | Digitalism | DJ Andy Smith | DJ Icey | DJ Shadow | Djinji Brown | Everything But the Girl | Fatboy Slim | Freestylers | Future Shock | Goldie | Hardfloor | Headrillaz | Kid Loco | Kruder & Dorfmeister | Leftfield | Les Rythmes Digitales | Lionrock | Luke Slater | Massive Attack | Mekon | Monkey Mafia | Mylo | New Order (UK) | Orbital | Primal Scream | Propellerheads | Q-Burns Abstract Message | Roger Sanchez | Sneaker Pimps | Spiritualized | The Crystal Method | The Dust Brothers | The Future Sound of London | The Orb | The Prodigy | Underworld | Vitalic | Wildchild
Artist Followers
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Air (France)
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Bag Raiders
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Beth Orton
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Cassius (France)
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Cornelius
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Daft Punk
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Death in Vegas
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Fatboy Slim
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Kruder & Dorfmeister
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Mellow
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Oasis
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Sasha John Digweed
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The Crystal Method
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The Prodigy
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Compilation Appearances
| Music From Glastonbury The Film(Explicit Version) | |
| Piece Work | |
| Nobel Son (Ost) | |
| Hanna (Ost) |
Associated Artists and Works
| Charlatans U.K. (The) | |
| Charlatans UK (The) |
Technical Info
| Release Date : 09/22/2003 | |
| Original Release Date : 2003 | |
| Catalog ID : XDUSTCDX 6 | |
| Label : Astralwerks | |
| Number of Discs : 2 | |
| Studio/Live : Studio | |
| Mono/Stereo : Stereo | |
| SPAR Code : n/a | |
| UPC : 00724359271422 |
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (10/30/03, p.94)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "There's rarely a dull moment with the Chemical Brothers..."
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "There's rarely a dull moment with the Chemical Brothers..."
Rolling Stone (10/30/03, p.94)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "There's rarely a dull moment with the Chemical Brothers..."
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "There's rarely a dull moment with the Chemical Brothers..."
Spin (p.86)
- "[T]heir true talent was rock 'em-sock 'em robot beats that, yes, rocked the block."
- "[T]heir true talent was rock 'em-sock 'em robot beats that, yes, rocked the block."
Q (10/03, p.122)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...The Chemical Brothers have exceeded everyone's expectations, leaving in their wake some of the defining records of the '90s. Not to mention a load of gloriously damaged memories..."
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...The Chemical Brothers have exceeded everyone's expectations, leaving in their wake some of the defining records of the '90s. Not to mention a load of gloriously damaged memories..."
Q (10/03, p.122)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...The Chemical Brothers have exceeded everyone's expectations, leaving in their wake some of the defining records of the '90s. Not to mention a load of gloriously damaged memories..."
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...The Chemical Brothers have exceeded everyone's expectations, leaving in their wake some of the defining records of the '90s. Not to mention a load of gloriously damaged memories..."
Mojo (Publisher)
(11/03, p.142)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Very little here sounds dated..."
(11/03, p.142)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Very little here sounds dated..."
Mojo (Publisher)
(11/03, p.142)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Very little here sounds dated..."
(11/03, p.142)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Very little here sounds dated..."

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