Don't know and care if this was posted before but it's need to be read 'n spread :-)

http://music.ign.com...8/588382p1.html

IGN Music: You just touched upon something I always find interesting about being an artist who puts their works on public display. When you guys go into the studio, do you try to please yourselves first and basically say "F@#k off!" to the potential audience or do you and Tom take what you think listeners are looking for into consideration?

ES: Well it's totally instinctive. You know, yeah, you have to please yourself. You can't like have a plan and you can't like second-guess people. I suppose maybe a bit recently—not with this record, but maybe with some of our other records, we started second-guessing people and making records that kind of pandered to some pre-conceived notion of what Chemical Brothers records should sound like. And with this record I think we just totally made something that pleased us. We really genuinely feel that this is our best record, the best album that we've made. I know it's a cliché for every artist talking about their record to say "Oh, this is the best one," but we really do feel that way. We feel like we got rid of some shackles and stopped pandering and just made a record for us. I mean in the studio there is a sort of unsaid relationship with the people out there, you [...]

I mean this part says all about these fuckin' statements about reputedly producing mass combatible chart music or even pop. It came and comes still from heart 'n soul! Yay.

IGN Music: When I knew that we were going to speak I began thinking about how you guys were more or less the pioneers of the whole "Big Beat" movement as it was called several years ago. A lot of groups sprung up during that period, like The Wiseguys, The Propellerheads, Lionrock, and quite a few other groups. Yet most of them have kind of slipped from view while you guys are still quite visible and prominent.

Ed:

Yeah. I mean we were there before there was a movement called "Big Beat" and I mean we don't worry too much how people label our music and what cul-de-sacs they want to put us down. I mean it was a bit limiting because while we weren't afraid of a record with big beat, but a lot of our music is very tranquil, ethereal, beautifully still music that doesn't particularly rely on the bombast which a lot of the "Big Beat" records do. I mean our music used to be called "Trip-Hop" and in America it was part of some "Electronica" notion, you know? The names that people have given our music has not really had much bearing on us. I mean we're glad we're still around when now there isn't a movement called "Big Beat" anymore. There were some good records in that era and there were some good clubs, and people had a good time. Fatboy Slim's records were really fun at the time and sounded great and he's still going. But the only concern we have is Chemical Brothers music and I think that's been a pretty wide arena. From the beginning, our first record Exit Planet Dust had a very electronic/folky track with Beth Orton and it had some kind of ambient music, but it still had chemical beats, these big, slamming, acid house break beat tracks for DJs to spin at 5 O'clock in the morning for people to lose their minds to. I mean we've always explored a lot of stuff and we haven't really gotten too hung up on what people call it. I liked Trip-Hop, though. I thought it was kind of fun.<(ul>



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