Originally released in 1992 through Diamond and then given a larger scale release through Junior Boys Own a year later, "Song To The Siren" is the track that established The Dust Brothers as one of the most exciting new production outfits in the UK. The duo would of course go on to change their name to The Chemical Brothers and become one of the biggest acts in the history of electronic music but for now let's bask in the glory of their amazing debut with it's hypnotic vocal hook (sampled [...]
Thought I'd renew some of the dead links - here's the first post from the blog... Free cassette with December 17, 1994 issue of New Musical Express . Mixed by The Chemical Brothers when they were known as The Dust Brothers. The end track is actually preceded by 30 seconds of the Dust Brothers / Chemical Brothers / Sunday Social remix of 'La Tristesse Durera'. Used to give this some battering on me walkman, when I came to put it on it started off really fast, then really warped, then played [...]
No matter how often I requested it, the DJ that worked my middle school dances refused to play this song, citing its alleged offensive content. I could certainly tell the song was "weird", with the spoken word passages and an accompanying music video full of what I later found out to be homages to William Shatner and Captain Beefheart; but as an otherwise sheltered 11-year old, I was baffled by his accusation that any of it was more inappropriate than, say, the horrific Grease medley that seemed to perpetually blare through the gymnasium's under-powered PA system [...]
If memory serves, the Spawn movie which came out in 1997 was pretty terrible, but we did get one great thing out of it: the soundtrack. It was pretty much like the Judgment Night soundtrack, only instead of combining metal bands with rap acts, it teamed up metal bands with electronica acts. And every song [...]
The Dust Brothers - Corporate World About five to six years ago I sent Chuck Palahniuk a letter. In it, as directed by him, I discussed resolutions for the forthcoming year. Somewhat of a blur to my mind, they pertained to learning languages, memorising the faces of loved ones, and writing something (anything) every day. There was a sprinkling of the formal/everyday resolutions, too - the better eating, the better attitude, bettering the better. And a note to an invasive procedure I had undertaken some months previous. An appeal to his senses, I might have thought. [...]
Filed under: News , The Hit List , Movies The sucky thing about real life is there's no score. In movies, the music that alerts us to danger, tells us when to cry, and when to go in for that first kiss. Music can make a great movie better, and even a dreadful flick bearable. Here at Spinner, we've been waiting patiently for the release of 'Tron: Legacy' since we first heard electro kings Daft Punk [...]
This is not really like the trance I normally think - or at least not like commercial stuff such as ATB's 9PM (Til I Come) which was a huge scene when I first moved to the UK in 1999. This is more like early progressive dance and is part of a series of tapes which include the seminal techno compilation Technovisions which I featured way back when I started the blog. Like many tapes I've posted on this blog, my reason for posting is that it's a genre of dance music which falls [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive To coincide with their Olympic debut on Monday night, Devo are offering fans a glimpse of their new album, their first in 19 years. A new track, 'Fresh,' is available for 24 hours for free at the band's official site . Devo's Gerald Casale tells Spinner that this is the beginning of unveiling of the new music, with the band already planning something special around their next big showcase on Saturday, [...]
A repost from eighteen months ago. Bomb The Bass (formed 1987, in London, England) is the umbrella title for the output of British musician and DJ, Tim Simenon. Back then I said: After the inital success of "Beat Dis" and Bomb The Bass' first album, things started to go wrong in 1991 when the launch of the second album coincided with the start of the first Gulf War. Over-reacting, the BBC unofficially banned anything controversial, and that included the name Bomb The Bass (and indeed Massive Attack, who temporarily became "Massive"). After the second album failed to [...]
Justin Warfield does odd psychadelic rap but had The Chemical Brothers and David Holmes on remix standby. Rapper Justin Warfield was only 20 years old when his debut album, My Field Trip to Planet 9, was released to curious ears in 1993. Produced by Prince Paul, the album was a bizarre mix of psychedelic loops and unpredictable beats that was not a very large success, but established him as a young talent to watch for. Of course, he turned completely against his first album when The Justin Warfield Supernaut appeared in 1995. Comprised of a charming [...]
To fulfill a re-post request. Here is the Chemical Brothers, when they were still the Dust Brothers, being remixed by early champion Andy Weatherall. Initially posted almost a year ago, I said: Tom & Ed famously met in history class at Manchester University in 1988. They started off as DJ's known as "The 237 Turbo Nutters" (named after the number of their house on Dickenson Road in Manchester and a reference to their Blackburn raving days). They then opted for "The Dust Brothers" which they nicked from the L.A. producers of [...]
Is it compulsory for all schoolboys to fancy younger female teachers? Recording a vocal for the object of your desire in class when you're 14 is a dream. This is record really delivers that - complete with the vocal being interrupted by "Miss Parker's comin', quickly, quickly, put it away, she's coming" and a lovely funk/ska type backing track. Others have been here before me, so this from The Runout Groove tells the story better than me: Bit of [...]
A little out of season but still sounding fantastic none the less! NME Xmas Dust Up Tracklist:
A little out of season but still sounding fantastic none the less! NME Xmas Dust Up Tracklist:
#169 - What's The Story Morning Glory? - Oasis With grunge puttering out after the suicide of Nirvana lead man Kurt Cobain, Metal long since past it's glory days & punk still not having gotten it's second wind Oasis introduced the second British invasion. With the constant storyline of the ever-bickering Gallagher brothers it would seem music would suffer (it eventually did), but it was just the opposite. What's the Story Morning Glory? was one of the best selling albums of the 90s with 20 million records sold. The influence of the [...]
Ever since he broke onto the scene in mid-1980s with Guitar Town and his brand rockin' country, Steve Earle has always been misunderstood by Nashville, but not by me. To me, he's always been great. On his latest CD, Townes , he honors the man he calls the "best songwriter to ever walk the earth," Townes Van Zandt , with a performance that is as good as it gets. Townes Van Zandt had a cult following, but never actually had a hit on his [...]
Junior Boys Own collection 1. Fire Island - Fire Island 2. X-Press 2 - London X-Press 3. Underworld - Rez 4. Outrage - That Piano Track 5. 3rd Eye - Men With Sticks 6. Underworld - Dirty Guitar 7. Roach Motel - Movin' On 8. The Dust Brothers [...]
If ever there was a record that signalled a shift away from remixes of indie bands just discoifying a track, it was the Dust Brothers' remixes of Manic Street Preachers. They didn't just add beats but kept the indie aesthetic in a crunchy new form. Ho hum. Enough nonsense. Dressed in glam clothing, wearing heavy eyeliner, and shouting political rhetoric, the Manic Street Preachers emerged from their hometown of Blackwood, Wales, in 1991 as self-styled "Generation Terrorists." Fashioning themselves after the Clash and the Sex Pistols, the Manics were on a [...]
Who'd have thought that the Charlatans would have kept going for 20 years? Today's remixers are The Dust Brothers (The Chemical Brothers) and Van Basten. For many years, the Charlatans UK were perceived as the also-rans of Madchester, the group that didn't capture the zeitgeist like the Stone Roses or the band that failed to match the mad genre-bending of the Happy Mondays. At first they had promise but as Madchester and "baggy" faded away, the group began to look like a relic. It was commonly assumed that their third album, [...]
I used to have an '82 Mazda B2000 with a tape deck, and I'd listen to cassettes for weeks at a time before switching them out. Paul's Boutique was one of them. And the beauty part was there was so much going on that it never got old. Produced by the Dust Brothers and released in July of 1989, it's easily the Beastie Boys' best record-a sample-happy smorgasbord of sounds that showed the Boys were becoming men. Now that 20 years have passed you've gotta re-release the damn thing! [...]
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