Tracks Experience
- Fire
- Out Of Space
- Music Reach 1/2/3/4
- Charly
- Wind It Up
- Hyperspeed
- Everybody In The Place (155 And Rising)
- Jericho
- Weather Experience
- Your Love
- Death Of The Prodigy Dancers
- Ruff In The Jungle Bizness
Release date: 1992-09-28
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.98
Review Experience / The Prodigy:Before music journalists were throwing around terms like "drum & bass" or jungle, the Prodigy's Liam Howlett was creating high-energy dance music by marrying sampled, pitch-shifted beats to all manner of electronic timbres. This album has it all: complicated break beats, housey piano riffs, lush analog pads, frenetic and computeresque melodies, and subsonic bass. In fact, the mélange is so dense that the material demands full attention and repeated listenings to gain a complete understanding of the rhythmic interplay. -Michael A. Massa.
Tracks Live on Brighton Beach
- Speak Lord (I Get Deep) - Roland Clark
- The Groovy Thang - Minimal Funk
- Where's Your Head At? - Basement Jaxx
- The Real Life - Raven Maize (Fatboy Slim Mix)
- Star 69 - Fatboy Slim
- Right Here Right Now - Fatboy Slim
- Southern Thing - Scanty
- Sunset (Bird of Prey) - Fatboy Slim
- 3-2-1 Fire! - Santos
- Phat Planet - Leftfield
- Put Your Hands Up - Black And White Brothers
- Rocket Bass - Jark Prongo
- Born Slippy - Underworld (Nuxx)
- The Talk - The Clumps
- Austins Groove - Kid Creme
- Drop Some Drums - Love Tattoo
- Pray - Santos
Release date: 2002-02-25
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.98
Review Live on Brighton Beach / Fatboy Slim:On a crystal clear English summer's evening in the summer of 2001, Norman Cook played his most celebrated DJ set Live On Brighton Beach. In front of an estimated 30,000 loved-up Brightonians dancing on the pebbles, the man known to millions as Fatboy Slim took to the decks for two hours of typically hedonistic party mayhem. It's these two hours-or, at least, an edited version of them-that make our Norm's first mix album in yonks and a perfect souvenir of the night now known as "Normstock". Sound wise, the album sees Mr Zoe Ball doing what he does best-mashing up thumping dancefloor favourites in a sweat-drenched party stylee. Those expecting classic big beat belters are in for a shock, though, 'cos these days the Fatboy is more into straight-up house and techno-albeit with the aforementioned party twist. So, we get some of 2001's biggest records-Basement Jaxx's "Where's Your Head At?", Raven Maze's "The Real Life", a couple from Santos-alongside a smatering of classics (Leftfield's "Phat Planet", an anthemic version of Underworld's "Born Slippy") and the off Fatboy number to keep the punters sweet. The result is a hot, sweaty, grimy mix that perfectly captures the sound and feel of Norman Cook's DJ sets, even if it does feel a touch out of date. -Matt Anniss.
Tracks The Fat of the Land
- Diesel Power
- Naraya
- Breathe
- Mindfields
- Funky Shit
- Fuel My Fire
- Smack My Bitch Up
- Serial Thriller
- Climbatize
- Firestarter
Release date: 1997-06-30
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.25
Review The Fat of the Land / The Prodigy:Music For The Jilted Generation, despite commercial success, was a harsh underground rave statement proving that Essex rave auteur Liam Howlett could transcend the novelty acid house of many of his peers. Fat Of The Land, however, showed a very different side to The Prodigy; the exaggerated punk pastiche of "Firestarter" and "Breathe", with vocals provided by the band's cartoon Johnny Rotten, Keith Flint, proved that The Prodigy were, at heart, showmen. Fat was as influenced by American punk as it was by any form of dance music-demonstrated with a furious cover of L7's "Fuel My Fire"-and such a destructive, passionate fusion saw The Prodigy topping festival bills all over the world. Elsewhere, "Mindfields" and the irrepressibly controversial "Smack My Bitch Up" were brutal techno assaults, but driven by a defiantly heavy metal sensibility. Fat may have alienated the raving "old-skool", but it deservedly elevated The Prodigy to national public enemies. -Louis Pattison.
Tracks Better Living Through Chemistry
- Punk To Funk
- First Down
- Sound Of Milwaukee
- Song For Lindy
- Crenshaw Siren Beats
- Weekend Starts Here
- Give The Po' Man A Break
- 10th And Crenshaw
- Going Out Of My Head
- Everybody Needs A 303
- Santa Cruz
Release date: 2000-09-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £1.82
Review Better Living Through Chemistry / Fatboy Slim:
Tracks Come Get It I Got It
- Intro
- Free Association - Start of Something
- Free Association - House Music
- The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Stars and Rockets
- A Fascinating Musical Experience - The Monster
- Tom Cat - Muddy Waters
- Nobody - Hodges, James, Smith and Crawford
- Free Association - Salut La Dolce Vita Pt. 1
- The Johnny Otis Show - Country Girl
- Andre Perry - Ode A L'Affaire
- Harold Alexander - Mama Soul
- Free Association - This Could Be Your Sister
- Free Association - Don't Mess Hair
- Cyril Neville - Gossip
- Sugarman - Rodriguez
- Valentin Mehlers - Herbsplatte 69
- Ray Bryant - Up Above the Rock
- Jujus - Sweet Songs
- Free Association - Salut La Dolce Vita Pt. 2
- Johnny Jones and the King Casuals - Purple Haze
- Effectin' -Free Association
- Free Association - Don't Believe A Word
- Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers - Strange Happenings
- Free Association - Sounds Phoney
- Betty Adams - Make It Real (Ride On)
- The Staple Singers - Why (Am I Treated So Bad?)
Release date: 2002-03-25
RRP: £17.99
Price: £44.55
Review Come Get It I Got It / David Holmes:Swiftly becoming Hollywood's cinematic composer of choice, the Belfast-born wonder-DJ David Holmes dusts off his record box for this first release on his own 13 Amp label, Come Get It I Got It. Featuring a sublime selection of obscure R&B, soul and funk alongside Holmes' self-penned material (under the guise of Free Association), it's an intriguing and eclectic romp with some of the 1960s and 1970s greatest unsung heroes. More vital than his Essential Mix 98/01, Come Get It. kicks off with the gorgeous acid-tinged folk of Rodriguez's "Sugarman", before unleashing the raw soulful delights of Hodges, James, Smith & Crawford's "Nobody" and Betty Adams' fervent "Make It Real". Infectious experimental funk comes courtesy of the Johnny Otis Show's "Country Girl" and Cyril Neville's "Gossip" while Muddy Waters' masterfully delivers growling psychedelic blues on "Tom Cat". But the highlight has to be the absolutely hilarious, eccentric and bizarrely sexy cover of "Purple Haze" by Johnny Jones and The King Casuals, a favourite in Holmes' DJ set since he was 15, its camp genius is irresistible. Tied together with the sample-heavy retro-chic of Free Association, this is the soundtrack to one highly sexed, drug-fuelled, occasionally disturbed but genuinely joyous lifestyle. -Christopher Barrett.
Tracks The Contino Sessions
- Dirge (Feat. Dot Allison)
- Lever Street
- Neptune City
- Aisha (Feat. Iggy Pop)
- Broken Little Sister (Feat. Jim Reid)
- Aladdin's story
- Death Threat
- Soul Auctioneer (Feat. Bobby Gillespie)
- Flying
Release date: 1999-09-13
RRP: £6.99
Price: £5.97
Review The Contino Sessions / Death In Vegas:From the dizzying, ominous building chords of the opening "Dirge" to the frazzled exorcism of the closing "Neptune City", The Contino Sessions is a tooth-and-nail battle against Richard Fearless' demons. That's the last time any lazy journalist calls Death In Vegas a big beat act. This is the culmination of a long journey from Fearless' inauspicious beginnings-a Chemical Brothers protegé, playing records at the Heavenly Social-but then, The Contino Sessions is infused with a sense of all-conquering, boundless re-invention. Fearless has re-sparked the garage-punk tradition, and he's even enlisted some of junk-rock's old guard to help out. Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie wheezes his way through the smacked-out groove of "Soul Auctioneer", the Jesus & Mary Chain's Jim Reid hisses dirty threats on "Broken Little Sister" and even Iggy Pop shows up to contemplate multiple homicide on "Aisha". Mindless hedonism wearing a little thin? Death In Vegas' bleak rockin' beats end the party with decadent style. -Louis Pattison Richard Fearless has earned his name. Death in Vegas's 1997 debut, Dead Elvis, established him as a defiant DJ, mixing techno with weird dub, rock, and industrial. Despite itself, the disc spawned a hit ("Dirt"), an experience he may have wished to replicate here, though Contino pushes even harder in multiple directions. Many high-profile guests add to the blend of smooth grooves, noisy ambience, and raucous rock rhythms. [+]Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie conjures a laid-back hip-hop posture for "Soul Auctioneer," while Jim Reid makes "Broken Little Sister" sound a lot like his own band, Jesus and Mary Chain. On "Aisha," Iggy Pop's wicked monologue could rival Nick Cave's creep-factor were it not for Fearless's musical playfulness. From gospel choirs and organs to Americana twang, deep bass rumblings to spacey sci-fi sounds, The Contino Sessions is a psychedelic trip with bravery and grit. -Liisa Ladouceur.
Tracks Dig Your Own Hole
- Block Rockin' Beats
- It Doesn't Matter
- Piku
- Lost In The K Hole
- Where Do I Begin
- Setting Sun
- Don't Stop The Rock
- Get Up On It Like This
- Private Psychedelic Reel
- Dig Your Own Hole
- Elektrobank
Release date: 1997-04-07
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.35
Review Dig Your Own Hole / The Chemical Brothers:To follow up their bombastic 1995 album Exit Planet Dust, the Chemical Brothers fine-tuned their bombastic beats and produced a rock-solid pop album (pun intended). Dig Your Own Hole finds the common ground between rock & roll and techno, both in spirit and substance. Singles like "Block Rockin' Beats," "Elektrobank," and "Setting Sun" (featuring vocals by Oasis's Noel Gallagher) may lack the big hair and pomposity of rock music, but they make up for it in spades, with sampled and real guitars battling for space with sirens and distorted hip-hop drums. The album reeks of pure enthusiasm and energy, evoking a crowd-pleasing exuberance that makes Dig Your Own Hole a Back in Black for the late 1990s. Pure stadium techno. -Matthew Corwine.
Tracks Music for the Jilted Generation
- Full Throttle
- One Love
- No Good (Start The Dance)
- Claustrophobic Sting
- Intro
- Heat (The Energy)
- Speedway
- Voodoo People
- Break And Enter
- Skylined
- Their Law
- 3 Kilos
- Poison
Release date: 1994-07-04
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.00
Review Music for the Jilted Generation / The Prodigy:Crawling out of the end of the rave scene, the Prodigy's second album went straight in at number one in the charts. All the tracks have the unique stamp of Liam Howlett and the boys, from the hypnotic atmosphere of aggression and attitude on "Poison" and "Voodoo People" to the guitar-driven "Their Law" (featuring the now defunct Pop Will Eat Itself) and the breakbeat tech-house of "No Good (Start the Dance)". One of the few dance acts to retain underground credibility and huge mainstream popularity, Music For The Jilted Generation shows The Prodigy at their best. Any modern music collection seems barren without its presence. -Ed Potton.
Tracks Exit Planet Dust
- Three Little Birdies Down Beats
- Chemical Beats
- Alive Alone
- In Dust We Trust
- Fuck Up Beats
- Playground For A Wedgeless Firm
- Song To The Siren
- Chico's Groove
- One Too Many Mornings
- Leave Home
- Life Is Sweet
Release date: 1995-06-26
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.47
Review Exit Planet Dust / The Chemical Brothers:A key record of the 1990s, Exit Planet Dust invented the big-beat style that dominated British dance music in the second half of the decade, and it still sounds superb in its own right. Skull-crunching hip-hop loops, fuzz guitar, insistently repetitive spoken samples and thunderous basslines make up the blueprint for one of the most instantly energising albums ever recorded. Many of the titles-"Chemical Beats", "Fuck Up Beats", "Chico's Groove"-are fairly self-explanatory. Others show a level of erudite humour; "Song To The Siren" filches the name of a Tim Buckley ballad for a track more in keeping with the mysteries of a car alarm, while "One Too Many Mornings" is nothing that Bob Dylan would recognise in a hurry. Collaborations with Beth Orton ("Alive Alone") and the Charlatans' Tim Burgess ("Life Is Sweet") add human voices to the brilliant mechanical formula. -David Bennun For years before the release of Exit Planet Dust, the production duo of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons were cranking out slabs of the biggest sounds around on the U. K. label Junior Boys' Own. Before screeching guitars and massive breakdowns were par for the course in dance music, they were unleashing monsters like "Chemical Beats" and "Song to the Siren"; their distorted beats and rock mentality were years ahead of their time. And, not surprisingly, they still hold up today, collected and rereleased, along with several newer tracks, on Exit Planet Dust. [+]All the singles that established the trademark Chemicals sound are present, as are explorations of pop-song forms with vocalists Beth Orton ("Alive Alone") and Tim Burgess ("Life Is Sweet"). While a more evolved sound can be heard on their follow-up, Dig Your Own Hole, the roots of big beat can be found here. -Matthew Corwine.
Tracks Come with Us
- It Began In Afrika
- Pioneer Skies
- The State We're In (Featuring Beth Orton)
- Galaxy Bounce
- Hoops
- Denmark
- Star Guitar
- Come With Us
- My Elastic Eye
- The Test (Featuring Richard Ashcroft)
Release date: 2002-01-28
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.60
Review Come with Us / Chemical Brothers:If anyone's suffering from new-year blues, Come With Us will shake them out of their narcolepsy. This fantastic album roars out of the starting blocks like a supercharged dragster, blowing up a heady fume of hip-hop techno flavoured with the Chemical's new found post-rave happiness. Their fourth album shows all the passion of their earlier works coupled with a sophistication beyond the mere wish to knock people's musical heads off. Impressively after over six years of making music and touring they've lost none of their enthusiasm. In fact their longevity seems to inspire them to greater achievement in a field that traditionally feeds off the new, the novel and the young. Best of all, the Brothers have developed the ability to communicate heartfelt emotions, evident on tracks such as the Beth Orton sung "The State We're In", the Pink Floyd-like "Pioneer Skies" and magnificent album closer "The Test". That doesn't mean that there aren't the "traditional" Chemical Brothers' dancefloor killers. The opener and title track "Come With Us" is easily the pulsating equal of "Hey Boy Hey Girl" or 1995's "Block Rockin' Beats". Both already released singles, the bizarre "It Began in Afrika" and the Donna Summer-meets-Kraftwerk blur of "Star Guitar" are included in their original form. They're probably the album's weakest tracks. [+]The Brothers have moved on, yet they're still as good as they were. Go with them. -Jake Barnes.
Tracks Southern Fried Records Presents Big Beach Boutique II
- Mighty Dub Katz - Mañana
- Midfield General feat Linda Lewis - Reach Out
- X Press 2 - Lazy (Norman Cook dub mix)
- Cylone - Lord of the Land
- Chamonix - 77 Strings
- Groove Armada - Superstylin¹
- All Saints - Pure Shores (Norman Cook re-edit)
- Glen Masters - Hi Jackers
- Fusion Orchestra - Farfisa
- Space Cowboy - Crazy Talk (dub)
- Tim Deluxe - It Just Won¹t Do (dub)
- Camisra - Let me Show You
- Lo Fidelity Allstars - Tied to the Mast
- Mint Royale - Sexiest Man in Jamaica
- Danmass - Haze
- Static Revenger - Long Time
- Fatboy Slim - Talking about my Baby (Midfield General¹s Disco Reshuffle)
Release date: 2002-10-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £7.19
Review Southern Fried Records Presents Big Beach Boutique II / Various Artists:For a few hours one scorching July day, Brighton Beach became the venue for the Big Beach Boutique 2, one of the biggest parties the UK has ever seen. Thanks to the city's star resident, one Mr Cook, 250,000 revellers were able to forget a decade of shindig-stifling legislation and party for free while perfecting that great move, "the pebble shuffle". Predictably, a wave of negative press followed, but for anyone who was there, it was one of the most memorable events since the sun set on the Summer of Love. It's near impossible to bottle that kind of atmosphere, but Big Beach Boutique 2 is a good attempt to bring the sun to your speakers. While excerpts from support DJ sets such as Groove Armada's mid-pace "Superstylin" and the Lo Fidelity Allstars feisty "Tied to the Mast" create a carnival feel, its only when Cook kicks off with Tim Deluxe's "It Just Won't Do (dub)" that things really get going. Not the most eclectic mix album ever, the barrage of tech-house does become a little tiresome, and Mint Royale's "Sexiest Man in Jamaica" doesn't work so well off the beach. But, with superb moments such as Cook's magnificent mix of X Press 2's "Lazy", all told it's a great slice of nostalgia. -Christopher Barrett.
Tracks Decksandrumsandrockaroll
- Better
- Take California
- Bang On
- Cominagetcha
- Bigger
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- 360 Degrees (Oh Yeah)
- History Repeating
- You Want It Back
- Velvet Pants
- Winning Style
- Spybreak
- Number Of Microphones
Release date: 2002-12-01
RRP: £14.49
Price: £2.99
Review Decksandrumsandrockaroll / Propellerheads:
Tracks Prodigy Presents: Dirtchamber Sessions Vol.1
- Spybreak - Propellerheads
- Pump Me Up - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
- King Kut - Word Of Mouth (1)
- Been Caught Stealing - Jane's Addiction
- Doomsday Of Rap - Hijack
- Chemical Beats - Chemical Brothers
- Breaking Bells - T La Rock
- Sport - Lightning Rod & Jalal
- Funky Nassau - Beginning Of The End
- It's Just Begun - Castor, Jimmy Bunch
- Poison - Prodigy (1)
- How High - Charlatans (1)
- And The Break Goes On - Bones Breaks
- Ozone Breakdown - Renegade Soundwave
- Break Dance Electric Boogie - West Street Mob
- I'm Sick - Medicine
- Time To Get Ill - Beastie Boys
- Dope On Plastic - Uptown
- Blow Your Head - JB's
- Strong Island - JVC Force
- Best Part Of Breaking Up - Chemical Brothers
- Punk To Funk - Fatboy Slim
- I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More Baby - White, Barry
- Untitled - Hardnoise
- What Time Is Love - KLF
- 900 Number - 45 King
- Bug Powder Dust - Bomb The Bass
- Mexicon - Babe Ruth
- Beats And Pieces - Coldcut
- I Get Wrecked - Tim Dog & KRS One
- Home Of Hip Hop - DST
- Kowalski - Primal Scream
- Rock The House - B-Boys
- Rokit - Hancock, Herbie
- Public Enemy No 1 - Public Enemy
- Kool Keith Housing Things - Ultramagnetic MC's
- Sure Shot - London Funk Allstars
- Get Down - LL Cool J
- New York - Sex Pistols
- Tonto's Release - Rasmus (1)
- New Style - Beastie Boys
- Hey Hey (Can You Relate) - DJ Mink
- Humpty Dance - Digital Underground
- Wildstyle - Time Zone
- Funky Acid Makossa - Bones Breaks
- Give The Drummer Some - Lightning Rod & Jalal
- Shafted Off - Bones Breaks
- Radio Babylon - Meat Beat Manifesto
Release date: 1999-02-22
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.29
Review Prodigy Presents: Dirtchamber Sessions Vol.1 / Prodigy:
Tracks Let's Get Killed
- Listen
- Rodney Yates
- Caddell Returns
- Freaknik
- Let's Get Killed
- Gritty Shaker
- The Parcus & Madder Show
- My Mate Paul
- Don't Die Just Yet
- Radio 7
- Head Rush On Lafayette
- Slashers Revenge
- For You
Release date: 1999-03-15
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.38
Review Let's Get Killed / David Holmes:When Danny DeVito commissioned Irish producer David Holmes to provide the score for the film Out of Sight, he chose wisely. Holmes's gritty, urban dance music, first exposed on the sadly underrated The Film's Crap Let's Slash the Seats, is perfect for evoking scenes and atmospheres, yet it's interesting enough to stand on its own. For this album, Holmes and a friend wandered the streets of New York, collecting voices and noises; Holmes then assembled them into an imaginary soundtrack with the structures of modern dance music and the sonic qualities of rock and dub reggae. Let's Get Killed is a disjointed cut-up session that brings the grit and excitement of city life into your living room without leaving a drop of blood. -Matthew Corwine.
Tracks You've Come a Long Way Baby
- Gangster Trippin'
- Fucking In Heaven
- Build It Up Tear It Down
- Acid 8000
- Praise You
- Rockafeller Skank
- Soul Surfing
- Kalifornia
- Love Island
- Right Here Right Now
- You're Not From Brighton
Release date: 2000-09-01
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.55
Review You've Come a Long Way Baby / Fatboy Slim:Biographers of Norman Cook should look no further than the title of this-his second album under the pseudonym Fatboy Slim. From humble beginnings as the bass player in prole rock band The Housemartins, through chart-topping fame with Beats International, and even a spell scraping a meagre living from writing computer game soundtracks in the early 90s, Norman Cook has done it all. You've Come A Long Way, Baby, though, is the Fatboy's culmination; the quintessential, and utterly essential big-beat album. "The Rockafeller Skank" is a manic collage of surf-guitar looped into ever-tightening spirals; utterly simplistic, but a work of devilish genius. "Gangster Tripping" and "Fucking In Heaven" are in a similar celebratory mood, but to prove that the Fatboy doesn't always work by a formula, try the purloined gospel of "Praise You", or the rave nostalgia of "Acid 8000". It's seldom poetry, but dumb dance music doesn't get much better. -Louis Pattison.
Tracks Surrender
- Let Forever Be
- Surrender
- Sunshine Underground
- Got Glint
- Under The Influence
- Music Response
- Hey Boy Hey Girl
- Asleep From Day
- Orange Wedge
- Out Of Control
- Dream On
Release date: 1999-06-21
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.51
Review Surrender / The Chemical Brothers:The Chemical Brothers released their third album with their status as one of the UK's most exciting bands unassailable. Surrender, managed to enhance their already burgeoning reputation, drawing on the talents of a formidable array of celebrity collaborators including Missy Elliott, Oasis' Noel Gallagher and Bernard Sumner. The Brothers shifted their attention away from hip-hop breaks towards more traditional 4/4 beats, but their unique blend of visceral energy, inventive melodies and eclectic samples remained unaffected. "Out Of Control", featuring the fragile vocals of Sumner, sounds like New Order on stronger drugs, before erupting into a groovy, guitar-studded monster not dissimilar to many of Underworld's offerings. The fairytale chords and Oriental chimes of "Sunshine Underground" provide a refreshing change in direction, while Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue makes a refreshing appearance on the psychedelic rock finale, "Dream On". Surrender is a deeply satisfying album from a band who grow from strength to strength. -Ed Potton.
Tracks Electro Glide in Blue
- White man's throat
- Altamont super highway revisited
- Stealth overture
- Krupa
- Tears of the the gods
- Carrera rapida
- Stealth mass in F sharp minor
- Vanishing point
- Raw power
- Pain in any language
- Ain't talkin' 'bout dub
- Electro glide in blue
Release date: 2000-01-10
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.56
Review Electro Glide in Blue / Apollo 440:Unfairly dismissed by much of the electronica cognoscenti-too commercial, some sniffed: too calculated-this was, nevertheless, an ambitious (and mostly satisfying) attempt to fuse the volume and density of rock with the broad textural vocabulary of electronica. The single, "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub," effectively defined the template, marrying a corrosive Van Halen guitar sample to chattering breakbeats; the remainder of the album was divided between variations on this theme (the slide guitar propelling "Altamont Super-Highway Revisited," the bluesy shuffle of "Tears Of The Gods"), and moments of almost meditative stillness, courtesy of the group's other incarnation, the Stealth Sonic Orchestra. The most accomplished of the latter is a ballad titled "Pain In Any Language," which features the last recorded vocal of late Associates frontman Billy MacKenzie, to whose memory this bold and singular album is dedicated. -Andrew McGuire.
Tracks David Holmes Presents The Free Association
- Don't Rhyme No Mo
- Sugarman
- Everybody Knows
- Free Ass O-C-8
- Le Baggage
- Paper Underwear
- Whistlin' Down the Wind
- (I Wish I Had A) Wooden Heart
- La Dolce Vita
- Pushin' A Broom
Release date: 2003-09-15
Run time: 42 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.14
Review David Holmes Presents The Free Association / David Holmes Presents The Free Association:
Tracks Singles 1993-2003
- Chemical Beats
- Leave Home
- Out Of Control
- Song To The Siren
- Hey Boy Hey Girl
- Golden Path - Chemical Brothers & The Flaming Lips
- Setting Sun
- Star Guitar
- Block Rockin' Beats
- Get Yourself High - Chemical Brothers & K-Os
- Let Forever Be
- Private Psychedelic Reel
- Test
Release date: 2004-01-05
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.39
Review Singles 1993-2003 / Chemical Brothers:To remain relevant after a decade in the music industry is rare indeed; for a dance act, it's virtually unique. Singles 93-03 ably demonstrates how the Chemical Brothers have managed it. Having first carved a reputation as DJs the Dust Brothers in the early 1990s, the two home-counties history graduates narrowly avoided calling themselves the London Dust Explosion before spearheading big beat, becoming a huge live draw, collaborating with Noel Gallagher and having Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis play "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" at his wedding. It's been 10 years of fun, frolics and gigantean left-field beats for Ed Simmons and Tom Rowland and, as this faultless singles collection testifies, continual reinvention. From the seething siren, pounding breaks, breathy vocals and spellbinding post-acid electronica of album opener "Song to the Siren" to the ingenious collaboration with the Flaming Lips, "The Golden Path", Tom 'n' Ed have somehow managed to carve tracks that appeal equally to radio, clubs and the live arena. Alongside the cement-cracking bass of "Leave Home" and "Block Rockin' Beats" comes the high-inducing sonic debauchery of "The Private Psychedelic Reel" and dancefloor filler "Star Guitar", to name but a few of the many highlights. Ingenious, boundary-baffling stuff, this compilation offers a hypnotic historical tour of one of the most creative careers in dance music. -Christopher Barrett.
Tracks Scorpio Rising
- Natja
- So You Say You Lost Your Baby
- Hands Around My Throat
- 23 Lies
- Killing Smile
- Scorpio Rising
- Diving Horses
- Help Yourself
- Leather
- Girls
Release date: 2004-10-18
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.52
Review Scorpio Rising / Death In Vegas:Scorpio Rising follows the same approach as Death in Vegas' remarkable predecessor, The Contino Sessions. Richard Fearless and Tim Holmes corral a host of special guests to populate their barbed soundscapes and their knack for finding the perfect environment to bring out the best in their chosen guest is as sure as ever. Liam Gallagher excels himself on the title track, inspired by cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger's celebrated movie, Paul Weller brings just the right measure of disdain to a simmering version of Gene Clark's "So You Say You Lost Your Baby", while Hope Sandoval's sultry tones bring a sensual glow to the storming finale "Help Yourself". Throughout, Indian violinist Doctor Subramanian helps flesh out the eclectic but perfectly tailored backing tracks. Fearless and Holmes display the sort of insight that would be the envy of any record company A&R department. -Gavin Martin.
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"But someone 1,500 miles away probably can." This just might be the future of customer service. ›13:44, 18.07 Seven superpowers destined for the masses: In The Dark Knight, Batman tries to best the Joker with old-fashioned brawn and brain: The Dark Knight is superhero without any superpowers per se. Here are some real life ways mortals can achieve Batman's physical and intellectual prowess. ›21:07, 15.07 Photo of the Week: Where was this snapped?: Where in the world was this image taken? ›19:25, 18.07 Little support for NAACP flag boycott: The NAACP this week renewed its call for an economic boycott of South Carolina over its flying of the Confederate flag. But there appears to be little popular support for the push. ›19:57, 18.07 10 saved after Alaska volcano erupts: A fishing vessel rescued 10 people after a volcano erupted, sending rocks and ash down on a cattle ranch on a remote island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. ›12:10, 15.07 Newsweek: What indictment of Sudan's leader means: Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, on Friday accepted libel damages and an apology from a news agency that reported he refused to talk to women at an awards ceremony who were not wearing a veil. ›17:30, 18.07 Low-fat milk recommended for some toddlers: Once weaned from breast-milk or formula, some babies as young as 12 months of age should be given reduced-fat milk instead of whole milk, says the American Academy of Pediatrics. ›21:31, 18.07 Protections restored for wolves: A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall. ›01:32 The best guided city walks: In great cities like New York, Rome and Boston, you can ditch the guidebook and follow the guide. ›13:47, 18.07 Pope: Natural resources being squandered: Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday the world's natural resources were being squandered by "insatiable" consumption and urged people to care more for the environment. ›15:29, 17.07 Black market iPhones big in Russia, China: In the Soviet days, Russians asked their American friends to bring blue jeans, rock records and other Western goods into the country. Today Russians can buy almost anything they want here but they are still begging for one item: Apple Inc.'s slick iPhone. ›17:09, 18.07 Salmonella fears prompt N.C. food recall: State officials announced a recall of fresh jalapeno peppers and avocados distributed in North Carolina after samples from a food distributor tested positive for salmonella. ›16:41, 18.07 Army shoots live pigs for medical drill: The Army says it's critical to saving the lives of wounded soldiers. Animal-rights activists call the training cruel and outdated. ›23:42, 18.07 Dead penguins wash ashore in Brazil: ›23:34, 16.05 Immigrant beaten to death in Pa.: An illegal immigrant was beaten to death in Pennsylvania over the weekend and despite witness reports that the attackers yelled ethnic slurs, authorities say the killing wasn't racially motivated. ›20:15, 18.07 Drought threatens Iraq's crops, water: It's been a year of drought and sand storms across Iraq a dry spell that has devastated the country's crucial wheat crop and created new worries about the safety of drinking water. ›20:50, 10.07 The worlds best outlet stores: Deep discounts aside, high-end outlet stores attract shoppers with value-added incentives and no middleman. ›17:25, 18.07 U.K. PM in Iraq ahead of expected troops cuts: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held talks Saturday with Iraqi leaders less than a week after the announcement of expected British troop cuts in southern Iraq. ›08:50 Brain region linked to obsessive disorder risk: Scientists have located an area in the brain that fails to "kick-in" for people with obsessive compulsive disorder and those at risk of developing the condition. ›20:42, 17.07 Iraq pact could complicate campaigns: A new U.S.-Iraqi agreement raising the possibility of a withdrawal timeline threatens to complicate the war policies of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. ›23:20, 18.07 Surgeons taking kidneys through the navel: Brad Kaster donated a kidney to his father this week, and he barely has a scar to show for it. ›13:34, 17.07 U.S., Iraq seek 'time horizon' for exit: President Bush and Iraq's prime minister have agreed to set a "general time horizon" for bringing more U.S. troops home, but the top U.S. general said there's no guarantee on what could happen next. ›07:02 S.C. gay group to pay for ads after state balks: A gay pride organization said Thursday it plans to raise $5,000 to pay for an advertising campaign that proclaimed "South Carolina is so gay" after the state refused to pick up the tab. ›22:57, 17.07 |
