This included excerpts from previous singles and slung in instant classics that immediately stood among the best Chemical Brothers sons, such as the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink opener ‘Leave Home’ (with its rallying call, “The brothers gonna work it out”), which came across like a Chems DJ set in miniature. In 1995, the Brothers brushed the dust from their shoulders (under threat of legal action), and opened up their chemistry set for Virgin, issuing debut album Exit Planet Dust as the newly re-christened Chemical Brothers. The Chems’ dirty bass, scuzzy guitars, battering beats and slicing cuts fitted in just so. The Brothers ruled the developing big beat scene, which took the UK’s critically acclaimed trip-hop sound and injected it with a dose of something strong, resulting in a slower and funkier feel that drew in audiences bamboozled by the spiralling tempos of other dance genres. They later similarly blessed the work of Oasis, Fatboy Slim, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man, Saint Etienne, and even Kylie Minogue, as well as whacking out prominent DJ mixes. They also had their first encounters with fellow Manchester scenesters The Charlatans around this time their remix for ‘Nine Acre Dust’ starts with a psychedelic blare before clearing into razor-sharp hip-hop beats and then building into an indie-dance monster. Almost immediately, the British duo created a buzz, delivering independently released EP tracks such as the intense, acidicly growling ‘Chemical Beats’, as well as remixing acts such as The Prodigy, Leftfield & Lydon, Primal Scream and Manic Street Preachers, plus Bomb The Bass’ ‘Bug Powder Dust’ (with appropriately trippy rapper Justin Warfield riding the “windowpane” acid). The Chems started recording in 1992 as The Dust Brothers, the name pinched from the LA hip-hop producers who helmed Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique and Beck’s Odelay.
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