Best Live Act BEST OF BRITISH
The other
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Basement Jaxx
Hot Chip
Lady Sovereign
The Bays
The Prodigy
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hip-hop breaks and real songs with real
vocalists, like The Charlatans’ Tim
Burgess.
It was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic
and their spectacular live shows soon
proved that they were able to hold a
crowd in stadiums or festivals just as well
as they had on the dancefl oor.
“I feel it’s a blessing to be able to do
something that gets people out of their
homes to experience something
together,” says Ed. “When you play live
and see a sea of people with their hands
in their air, smiling, that’s what I feel
most proud of — making music that is
loud and powerful enough to bring
people together.”
Their latest album, ‘We Are The Night,’
follows their fourth consecutive No.1
album, the double Grammy winning ‘Push
The Button’, and is their most inventive
yet, with Canadian beat poets,
psychedelic dance grooves, rapper Fatlip,
US singer-songwriter Willy Mason,
Best
up-and-coming Londoner Ali Love and
The Chems are
LIVE ACT
The Klaxons.
The Chemical
Over the years, the duo have rocked
stages from Tokyo to Totnes, displaying a
untouchable
Brothers
canny visual aesthetic that converges
almost supernaturally alongside their
blistering basslines and acidic beats.
Their jaw-dropping projections, penchant
When it comes to live dance music, you lot can’t get
for fi rework displays, and way with
psychedelic lasers and strobes all
enough of The Chemical Brothers...
smashes the myth that dance music
producers are boring to watch. Warning:
W
ith six block rockin’ albums 2005), spawned countless hit singles and The Dust Brothers sounded better. It did, these boys are literally explosive.
and around a zillion live shows amassed some nine million album sales. but the threat of legal action from the Though their shows are also pre-
under their belts, The Chemical original Dust Brothers (the US producers structured to an extent, the boys carry a
Brothers — Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons Famously, the duo met in Manchester of The Beastie Boys) made that particular wealth of kit on stage and maintain a
as they’re individually known — know a where they both studied medieval history nom de disque a no-no. Thus the certain amount of spontaneity, deciding
thing or two about dance music. at university and danced like wild things Chemical Brothers. on which tracks to play as they go along.
To date, the Chems have collaborated at the legendary Hacienda. They began to The duo moved to London and in 1994 Their recent headlining slots at the Other
with a string of artists from Noel DJ together in 1992, in the dodgy became resident DJs at the Heavenly Stage at Glastonbury, Rockness in
Gallagher, Bernard Sumner and Bobby surroundings of a back room pub, under Social, where house, hip-hop, rock and Inverness and Creamfi elds have
Gillespie to Schooly D, K-os and Q-Tip. the name of The 237 Turbo Nutters. reggae rubbed together in beautiful confi rmed their ability to drop scorching
They have won three Grammies, the most When they pressed up white labels of ways. When their debut album ‘Exit live sets. If you haven’t seen them yet
recent for hit single ‘Galvanize’ (which their fi rst club tune — ‘Song To The Planet Dust’ came out in 1995, it fused –make sure you do soon!
was also Radio 1’s most played track in Siren’— at the end of ’92, they decided samples, synths and dance beats with PAUL SULLIVAN *
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