The big beat sound is still great - but Prodigy’s Firestarter video hasn’t aged so well.
I remember it as being more dark, twisted and David Lynch. Watching it now, though, Keith Flint looks a lot like an emo version of Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss.
And lyrics like “I’m a firestarter, twisted firestarter,” don’t sound so dark and [...]

The Chemical Brothers are back with a new release, We Are The Night, and we’ve got it in heavy rotation.
If you’re into big beats and classic analog synth grooves, The Chemical Brothers deliver with We Are The Night. It’s a quirky album that manages to be sonically experimental within a dance-friendly rhythmic framework.
The CD kicks [...]

The Chemical Brothers have announced a remix contest for their track The Salmon Dance (above). Here are the details:
Here’s your chance to remix The Salmon Dance!
Just download the zip file below to get the raw audio files and mix away.
CHEMICAL BROTHERS REMIX FILES - click to download
Post your completed remix as the first track in [...]

A little sumpin’ from the Chemical Brothers:

The Chemical Brothers upcoming album, We Are The Night, is set for release on June 19th 2007. According to the group, it’s “the Chemical Brothers finest record yet, twelve tracks of psychedelic warehouse party acid music.”

The Chemical Brothers have released details for the upcoming album, set for release on June 19th 2007, We Are The Night. According to the group, it’s “the Chemical Brothers finest record yet, twelve tracks of psychedelic warehouse party acid music.”
Here’s their press release on it:
We Are The Night is a route map through modern [...]

The Chemical Brothers are back and, unlike some of their contemporaries, they refuse to fade away. On Push the Button, the Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons enlist a interesting set of collaborators, giving the album a variety of sounds without sounding fragmented.
Push the Button is the CB’s fifth studio album, and it’s a nicely [...]

BT’s soundtrack to Stealth, an action movie about 3 top gun pilots that have to deal with a robotic fighter plane gone bad, seems promising, because it provides BT with the opportunity to mix his trademark hyperkinetic production style with full-on orchestral power.
Unfortunately, the soundtrack CD is a bit of a disappointment. While there are [...]

Fatboy Slim delivers the big-beat techno sounds that he is famous for. This Funk Soul Brother may be a middle-aged white guy named Norman Cook, but on this release, he proves that he can lay down the beats with the best of them.
Cook’s pop approach to techno has made him one of the leading techno [...]

Before “Rockefeller Skank” and “Praise You”, Fatboy Slim released this 1977 techno album. It’s full of bass and big beats, and like much of Slim’s music, it makes extensive and original use of sampled loops. It targets the dance floor, and the beats and songs are heavy enough and catchy enough to do the trick.
There’s [...]

If you thought the two Matrix sequels were overhyped, you’re not alone. On the other hand, if you missed the animated feature The Animatrix, you missed some of the most exciting visuals and storytelling of the series.
The soundtrack is also exceptional. The Animatrix soundtrack features some great electronica that evokes the dark mood of the [...]

This 1995 album put ‘big beat’ into the lingo. Plenty of sampled loops, squelchy TB303 basslines, and a compressed kick that won’t quit add up to upbeat, danceable techno.
If you’ve listened to much electronic music, you’ve probably heard some of the cuts on this album. “Leave Home” starts the album off, with a sampled chorus [...]