Posted 11 September 2003 - 1:53 AM
I wish we got that magazine in the US... maybe we do..
Anyway here are somethings i found on their site while trying to see if they had that article on it (which i am guessing is a no):
Singles Review :
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
SINGLES '93-'03
(Virgin)
'You can't sing, you can't play and you look awful. You'll go a long way'. As a vague approximation of The Chemical Brothers career this line from an early '90s chocolate bar commercial is somehow apposite. They're not a group - not in the traditional sense anyway - and as images go, well, they're not The Hives - fanciful displays of posing and preening sit uncomfortably with this pair of home counties history graduates. Yet, as this singles collections ably demonstrates, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons sure have come a long way. Indeed it wouldn't be too grandiose a claim to suggest the history of dance music over the last ten years is also the history of The Chemical Brothers.
From '93's incendiary call to arms 'Song To The Siren' to this year's perfect pairing with The Flaming Lips, 'The Golden Path', Tom'n'Ed's raison d'etre, whilst constantly evolving, has proved immovable. An unholy amalgam of The Beatles, Mantronix, My Bloody Valentine, Renegade Soundwave and Andy Weatherall, and with '88's central tenet - free for all fun - at their core, The Chemicals have consistently crafted tunes that work as well on the radio as they do in a club. 'Chemical Beats', 'Leave Home', 'Block Rockin' Beats' and 'Out Of Control' are at once funky as fuck and dripping in lysergic leftfield oddness whilst being simultaneously drenched in a melodic, pop accessibility that would shame Girls Aloud.
'The Private Psychedelic Reel' remains an object lesson in the properties of E - explosive excitement in experimentation - and to witness the soaring, euphoric emphathy that 'Star Guitar' delivers is to believe in the enduring potency of the dancefloor. And to think they couldn't find a place on this collection for 'My Mercury Mouth', 'Elektrobank' or the awesome 'Music:Response'.
At a time when underground dance music is successfully re-inventing itself, The Chemical Brothers remain integral to the future success of disco pogo for punks in pumps. Respec', as they like to say on the street, is most definitely due.
And here is a collection of good quotes from the mag over the year:
"I think it's a bit ironic what we do" Ed
"I don't think it's at all ironic" Tom
The best of the Chemical Brothers in JS:
The Chemicals Brothers' rise through the nineties and beyond has been compelling and Jockey Slut has always been with them. We were the first magazine ever to interview the duo as well as the first to feature them on its cover a year later. Our journey begins when the duo were still the Dust Brothers and the Slut was in its second issue…
MARCH 93
Tom: "We're spiritually brothers. We've been living in the same commune for ages. Each others property is shared."
Tom: "Basically the stipulant for any record we play is one with a siren in it."
Ed: "(Song to the Siren) is not smooth, it's out there it sounds like it's made by people with slight brain damage."
October/November 94
Tom: "(Chemical Beats) has gone down as a good record. A good end of night tune. You can't follow it. What do you play after that eh?"
Ed: "Manic Street Preachers…"
Tom: "I like things that are noisey…I like things that sound a bit wrong."
Ed: "We're young, we're friends we have a bit of a laugh. I think people have tapped into that."
Tom: "What I think about our music is that it has a human element, it's quite emotional but not in a Detroit emotional way, it's got more sweatiness, more clubiness."
JUNE/JULY 97
Ed: "We're not usually 'larging it' with Mick Jagger…but who wouldn't find Mick Jagger coming to your gigs amusing?"
Ed: "We met the Dust Brothers and they were cool. We just said sorry for all that shit before ('borrowing' their name - Ed) and that was it really…"
Tom: "All the mad things happen to Ed. I just watch from the sidelines."
Tom: "Me and Ed were in this record shop in New York the other day and this Japanese guy had an epilepic fit when we walked in. That threw us a bit."
JUNE/JULY 99
Ed: "I think we've got a strong identity. The two of us, how we look, it's quite…it's not spectacular but…you would definitely know when you see us that it's us."
Tom: "If people think we look boring then our success must purely be down to the music which is a good thing."
Tom: "The thing is with 'Block Rockin' Beats', which was our biggest hit, that was just a piece of music to play at the Social, and you have no conception of it getting on the radio. You don't even think about it being a hit, and I think that's how all our records happen."
Ed: "I broke a chair over Tom's back because he wouldn't let me read his magazine."
Tom: "Slightly over-reacted."
On what makes them happy:
Ed: "A thumping bass and a smiling face…driving my car makes me happy. My girlfriend."
Tom: "All of the above. Just you know the whole thing…creation, man."
On the album being called 'Surrender':
Ed: "We like the strength of just one word, and how surrender can be a good thing, not just like an army surrender, but if you surrender to higher forces or surrender to love, you're placing yourself with something higher than you, doing that with music, just surrendering to the power of it."
DECEMBER/JANUARY 99/00
Ed: "I used to really enjoy Megadog…I've always thought that when you're near hippies you're never far away from good music."
Ed: "The irony of the Social was people were saying, 'Oh it's all about small clubs' and we'd just come back from Cream. But the Social was a lot of people's big moment. The music we came out with connected with them. A hip-hop feel with the excitement of techno. It hit a nerve with them. Our DJing wasn't rocket science, it was an amalgamation of all the experiences we'd had in Manchester."
Tom: "Trance is the ever-present music. Go anywhere in the world and it's the music you'll hear. It's melodic techno isn't it? Trance as in a small 't', is what acid house is; repetition. I don't know why we've been suddenly linked to Trance music though. We went to Gatecrasher for one night and had a good laugh."
On Come with us:
Ed: "It's going to be a quickie. It's wide open. I'm 28 now. It might be the last full-on, banging album we do."
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