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The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
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ARTiST The Chemical Brothers
TiTLE Surrender
GENRE Beat
SUBGENRE Progressive House, Big Beat
LABEL Freestyle Dust (Virgin)
CAT.NR XDUSTCD4
YEAR 1999
SOURCE CDDA
GRABBER EAC
ENCODER Lame 3.97
QUALiTY avg. 165kbps
SiZE 72,9 MB
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01 The Chemical Brothers - Music: Response 05:20
02 The Chemical Brothers - Under The Influence 04:16
03 The Chemical Brothers - Out Of Control 07:20
04 The Chemical Brothers - Orange Wedge 03:07
05 The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be 03:56
06 The Chemical Brothers - The Sunshine 08:39
Underground
07 The Chemical Brothers - Asleep From Day 04:47
08 The Chemical Brothers - Got Glint? 05:27
09 The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl 04:51
10 The Chemical Brothers - Surrender 04:30
11 The Chemical Brothers - Dream On 06:47
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Total: 59:00 min
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The poster boys of big beat, that hip amalgam of
electronica and rock that has dug it's way into the
national consciousness via Fatboy Slim's "The
Rockafeller Skank," have been busy since their 1997
breakthrough Dig Your Own Hole. Maybe last year's DJ mix
album (Brothers Gonna Work It Out) should have been the
clue, but Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have clearly been
raiding a library-sized record collection since their
last offering of "original" music.
Lead off track "Music: Response" starts like a ride on
the Autobahn with Kraftwerk circa the mid 70s, with its
analog synth blips and monotone computerwelt voices,
before tossing in some ferocious beats to bring
Krautrock into the new millennium. The mood carries
through on "Under the Influence" with more
Kraftwerk-styled noodlings. Meanwhile, their best
instrumental effort is "The Sunshine Underground," an
eight and a half minute piece of chiming tones, wafting
flute-like sounds, sputtering and gurgling synths that
intertwine with the briefest of dreamy vocals. Actually,
it wouldn't have been out of place on the last Orbital
album.
Surrender will receive a ton of hype based on its
superstar guest appearances -- none more historically
relevant than "Out of Control" with New Order's Bernard
Sumner on lead vocals. Being electronic, dance music
freaks from Manchester, New Order is like the holy grail
to the Chemical Brothers and it's easy to see why. The
Chemicals share with their Manchester predecessors an
obsession with hypnotic, melodic, dance beats. "Out of
Control" works so well, it could be a lost track from
Low Life. After his turn on "Setting Son" with the
Chemicals in 1996, Noel Gallagher (Oasis) returns for
another psychedelic, Beatlesque anthem on "Let Forever
Be," again snagging the rhythm track from "Tomorrow
Never Knows" off Revolver.
All in all, Surrender is both the Chemical Brothers most
immediately satisfying work and the, perhaps not
coincidentally, the most like a rock album of their
career. Unlike a fair share of techno, these songs feel
like "songs," not a collection of clever samples and a
race to the fastest BPM on the planet.
Enjoy!
http://www.thechemicalbrothers.com
http://www.myspace.com/thechemicalbrothers
http://www.virginrecords.com
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