Escape Velocity is about the same tempo as S2A, Hoops, Sunshine Underground, wonder what this'll mean for live shows hmm

GLAKO-FAHN, on 08 April 2010 - 04:37 PM, said:

I absolutely love that tune. Gets a workout anytime I go for a long drive. Fantastic lyrics, great Beth vocals, and quite a tune. I would love to see a live version sneak out (and have been saying so for a while) but it's unlikely to ever happen.

I think I had my first spiritual experience with Escape Velocity last night listening to Zane Lowe show. I think my brain will explode when i hear it on the album. This is going to be music for hitchhiking across galaxies.

Haha, well said good sir.
Does anyone notice that on the coachella recording it sounds way faster. Kinda messes with our head a bit after hearing the official version. I have checked into too much detail, but the pitch sounds the same, so I wonder if when they played it at coachella they originally planned on making it a faster track. Tom did say they had changed it since then. I've probably gone into the realm of over-speculation.

Can't believe how late I am with comments and kudos for my brothers Tom n Ed, wow!!!! Escape Velocity is out of this world, loving the new concept for the album, and this taster has got me more excited than ever (natural highs, the best kids!)

This new background on the website is clearly symbolic and has some clues as to the new visuals we can expect to see.

So with my planned wedding due in September, all money coming in goes on this, and so I missed out on Roundhouse!

2007, when WATN came out around the same month Further will, they toured in Birmingham at the NIA, I'm hoping they do the same again this year as I shall be a free man, well free to spend my money on watching my beloved chemical brothers play their new album, not free in the sense I shall be firmly tied down, so to speak!

Hopefully a full British tour will be announced after Sonar etc, or sooner maybe, I'm sure it will come, I'm impatient, but I am now at ease with hearing escape velocity, the new website and the great discissions that are cropping up here on the best cot daaaamn forum know to man! I must make more effort, it's not like I go on, and on and on about meaningless stuff, eh!?? errr maybe...

Anyway here's to good times and good music!

VMan

Biff, on 09 April 2010 - 01:54 AM, said:

Considering that it was a DJ set, they might've sped it up to mix cleanly from another track, or just to keep the crowd going harder.

I guess if they played a CD version of it they could of sped it out w/o the pitch going up.

GLAKO-FAHN, on 08 April 2010 - 04:37 PM, said:

Darkstarexodus, on 09 April 2010 - 05:56 AM, said:

Oh yes, I love that song too! Put it on a chillout collection disc for a friend years ago and he digged it.
This track would have done more justice to Beth's artist skills as a singer than Where do I begin when she was guest performing at Koko some years back. Where do I begin live was splendid for an instrumental (esp. loved the beat towards the end!!) but I always felt bad for Beth as she had just 3 lines to sing.

EV is still playing for me on a daily basis. The last song that I can remember to, that I listened for quite some time, was Under the Influence. Both deliver that consistency in elevation and drive that sends the body into rhythmic convulsions. It is more than an addiction because it's like candy for your ears.

inchemwetrust, on 11 April 2010 - 07:25 PM, said:

Yeah You can't get it off your ear once you've had it in

The vinyls go out today! I can't wait for my copy to get here.

I'm going to do my best to track this down all week. (12') I mean. I have to add to my vinyl Chems stack!

SO EXCITED!! CAN'T WAIT FOR THE GIG

If burst generator had a baby..

siphilon, on 03 May 2010 - 02:47 AM, said:

... would he call him Burst Juniorator ?

I wonder whether the title "Escape Velocity" has anything to do with the sentence below from Alex Petridis of The Guardian, in his review of Push the Button. Perhaps it doesn't, I'm not sure if "escape velocity" is a salient term regarding electronic music.

The patchily brilliant Come With Us (2002) tried everything, from hammering techno to My Bloody Valentine guitars to silly old Richard Ashcroft, in pursuit of escape velocity.

Benjani, on 03 May 2010 - 07:13 PM, said:

ass! or just sarcasm?

Benjani, on 03 May 2010 - 10:13 AM, said:

That is an interesting find and observation. I'm thinking it's more coincidence, though.

brother_ging, I don't think the author was trying to be an ass - maybe a twinge sarcastic. He's just being a critic, and trying to briefly sum up Come With Us in a single sentence and how it relates to where the Chems are (or were) with Push The Button. Also take into consideration Come With Us' reception was lukewarm coming off the heels of the oh-so-hot Surrender, so what he said was minor... Here's the Push The Button review from the Guardian that has the escape velocity mention: http://www.guardian....drock.shopping1

Well after few weeks i write my review of this track. I thought that "We are the night" "burst generator" or "sunshine underground" were the best build up but i think EV is the most impressive one. There is so much emotion, the seconds before the explosion are happy, sad, i feel everything listen to it. I can be really galvanized but also think about the end of capitalism (lol), a run away from the end of the world or something like that. This track should call "surrender" because the last explosion is so beautiful, so powerful, i always imagine myself whith a bootle of champagne and sink my head with it while open my arms to surrender for the sounds. I'm totally crazy of the part going to 8 min 47 to 9min 14 and SPECIALLY AT 8:53/8:54 BIG GENERATOR NOISE and 9:06 to 9:09 when the main melody came trough few notes ! it's AMAZING, there is so sadness there ! Usually i listen to a chems track that i love during few months, but i lisent to EV few time by day since one year...the build up, brothers & sisters, the build up is unbelievable. those guys are too strong !!

Wow, Owa - you pretty much summed up how I felt when I first heard this song at Coachella!