The Chemical Brothers have announced a new best-of album, Brotherhood, that will be released Sept 2.
Brotherhood comprises 2 discs, the first is a collection of 13 undeniable benchmark singles from the band’s immense back catalogue and new track Keep My Composure which features the shimmering flow of Baltimore’s Spank Rock.
The 2nd disc will feature exclusively [...]

These video mashups pit Tommy Seebach’s cheesetacular Apache video against classic electronica tracks:
Apache My Bitch Up

At the 2008 Grammy Awards, the Chemical Brothers scored a win for the Best Electronic/Dance Album of the year for We Are The Night.
Other nominees were:

D.A.N.C.E. - Justice
Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
We Are Pilots - Shiny Toy Guns
Elements Of Life - Tiësto

When I reviewed We Are The Night, we said “If [...]

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 [...]

Check out the sweet synth setup that the Chemical Brothers use to create their quirky synthtronica. They’ve got a page devoted to their synth gear at their site.
We spotted a Doepfer modular, a Roland System 100, a Future-Retro Revolution, and a couple of EMS synths. Did we miss anything?

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 among the musicians who have provided soundtracks for artworks at London’s Tate Modern Museum of Art. Visitors to the gallery will be able to hear the tracks at listening posts next to the pieces that inspired them.
The Chemical Brothers provided a track to go with Jacob Epstein’s 1913-14 sculpture Torso in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]