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The Fat of the Land

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: The Prodigy

Release Date June 30, 1997


music+beat+lyrics. that says it all!! 2 thumbs up!

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Singles 1993-2003

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: Chemical Brothers

Release Date January 05, 2004
There are few bands who can be considered to be peerless in their musical creativity. Like so many bands before and since, though, their back catalogues are obliged to be condensed into singles packages for the mass market, which is fine by me.

Song To The Siren sets the tone, and the message is that you must turn the volume up louder. By the time you reach the musical beanstalk that is The Private Psychedelic Reel, you might be physically in your lounge or kitchen, but mentally you will be in a souped up Citroen Saxo doing donuts at your local Asda.

This is a great album for the casual fan, the kind of person that tunes in to their live performance at Glastonbury, and turns it up loud on Radio 1!

CD-Charts Position 3
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Music for the Jilted Generation

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: The Prodigy

Release Date July 04, 1994
absolutely superb.... grabs you by the ********, and never lets you go..... an awesome achievement.......

CD-Charts Position 4
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Experience

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: The Prodigy

Release Date September 28, 1992
The diamond of the old skool rave scene. The best Prodigy album in my opinion (although I'm a big fan of fast paced dance music like happy hardcore) with some of their best tracks, and at the same time it is an absolute disaster. Why Liam and the gang decided to leave out the released single versions of Fire and Wind it up used to be a mystery to me, I now know why, to earn more money. Charly is a bit different aswell, though some would argue better on the album, aswell as a couple of others being a little different. The brilliant versions of Fire and Wind it up (rewound) were left out and replaced with terrible remixes in comparrison. You used to have to fork out another £10 just to get the two singles, worth every penny (especially Wind it ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 5
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Surrender

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: The Chemical Brothers

Release Date June 21, 1999
Surrender is, for me, the album that defines the The Chemical Brothers, and builds on the exceptional production of Dig Your Own Hole. Surrender has mellower moments than Dig, but still contains belters such as "Music: Response", "Out of Control", "Hey Boy Hey Girl". These tracks demonstrate the Chemicals' ability to zap your mind and body of emotion, and absorb you completely in terrific, pumping dance music. But this is no ordinary dance album, for its musical nuances, beats and imagination make it a cut above the rest. "The Sunshine Underground" grows satisfyingly, and "Asleep From Day" and the title track provide tranquil moments to balance out the heavy, thumping drive of tracks like "Under The Influence". The Chemicals are at the top of ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 6
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Come with Us

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: Chemical Brothers

Release Date January 28, 2002
Come With Us is patchily brilliant, but sounds a world away from 1999's Surrender. This is not to say that Tom and Ed should not stretch new boundaries, but the album sounds incomplete and unfocused, a weakness which plagued 2005's Push The Button. The stomping title track, with acid loops, vocoder vocals, and eclectic beats, is classic Chemicals, and Star Guitar is one of their finest achievements. Galaxy Bounce does bounce, and Hoops contains a terrific My Bloody Valentine guitar within a track that accomplishes everything. Yet from here, the album struggles, with the messy "My Elastic Eye", and the meandering "Pioneer Skies". "It Began In Afrika" made the album cut because of its popularity in Ibiza, and certainly sends you on a journey, but ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 7
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Exit Planet Dust

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: The Chemical Brothers

Release Date June 26, 1995
i have all the albums (apart from we are the night) and i think this has to be the best. yes the beats are quite simple, but they are genius! very addictive listening if your in the mood.

tracks 1-6 are quite simply brilliant. "leave home" is a brilliant start to the album and probably their best piece of work. another track is "three little birdies down beats" this is very repetitive, but is a tune which will get you dancing. "f*ck up beats" is basically a follow up beat to "chemical beats" and they both mix in very well. from track 6 onwards the pace of album slows and is more relaxed, track 10 is very weird but is something different to listen to.

if you havent got this album then buy it! i worried that it may sound dated but in ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 8
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Dig Your Own Hole

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: The Chemical Brothers

Release Date April 07, 1997
Way back when, this was one of the defining big beat albums. Massive percussion, explosions etc underneath layers of almost discordant samples and loops. It broke the Brothers into the mainstream with Block Rockin Beats leading the way on the radio, and Setting Sun ticking the celebrity vocals box.

Ten years on, this remains a cracking album. The tracks merge into one soundtrack, which veers between the plaintive Where Do I Begin to the real hardcore mid section of the album. Sometimes you get a nice neat packaged chorus sing a long, and sometimes you get a real mashup of noise. But the quality shines through. And if you turn it up all the way to 11, then it becomes just awesome, the subtleties, the balance of the different layers, brilliant....
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CD-Charts Position 9
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Live on Brighton Beach

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: Fatboy Slim

Release Date February 25, 2002
It seems that Fatboy is taking a pasting again. Perhaps the context of this mix has been lost on some reviewers. It's live! (albeit edited in places because of the length of the set..). Some of the mixes DO rattle and aren't perfect, but this provides a refreshing change from the Pro-Tools perfected mixes being produced in studios and tagged with a DJ's name, purely because he/ she chose the tracks and the programming.

I love Norm's 'devil may care' approach. He happily crosses genres, mixing house into techno, breaks into progessive, etc etc etc... He doesn't try and take you 'on a journey'. Oh - it's a fabulous cliche and should be reserved only for the likes of Sasha & Digweed, who really do take you on a journey, but again use Pro-Tools to do so! I also love ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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Let's Get Killed

CD-Charts > Music > Big Beat
by: David Holmes

Release Date March 15, 1999
Why is David Holmes so relativly unknown, even after producing work of this jaw dropping quality, when his emulators, such as Fat Boy Slim get so huge? This album just makes old Norm seem so...crass. Subtle, delicate, groovy and oh-so-cool, this album is a film, it's a huge hollywood blocbuster without pictures. It feels not like a collection of seperate tracks, but a continual narrative. An album in the truest sense of the word. I came across Holmes by accident and now just want everything he's ever done.
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