I have no idea about the year I started listening them, but I do remember some other things.



Many years ago MTV had dedicated "shows", each of them for each kind/style of music.

One of those shows was called Mastermix, dedicated to dance music.

The opening and ending of the show contained a little piece of Song to the Siren and also Chemical Beats.

I liked it, but I had no idea of who did that.

After some time MTV started showing Block Rockin Beats, I liked it, so I started looking for more of their songs. :)

I've listened to Chemical's stuff for a few years, well at least liking the stuff I heard on the American radio and music television stations that I have. So I guess that's not really listening to them. Anyways, my buddy just got back from Europe from studying in France, and he shows me the STAR GUITAR video. Being somewhat of a musician and someone who studies film, I instantly saw the incredible perfect harmony of sound and imagery tied into one being. It was as if perfect art had been created. It has film and drama, it has some very good rhythms, an excellent treble based track, and it was visually beautiful to watch. As someone who doesn't get to see the Western European countryside on a relatively often basis (i.e. maybe once or twice in my life), this kind of visualization was stunning.



Anyways that's my story and I was happy to tell it.

Around April 2004 my dad got back from a business trip to China with a ton of bootleg CDs, (i guess he just bought everything that he thought was metal or rock), and instantly my older brother grabbed everything except the pop and stuff he had never heard of. Amongst the remains i saw DYOH, not knowing what it was i decided to give it a listen. I heard the wierd ambeince at the beginning i was like "this is weird", then out of the ambeince arose a bass line i shall never forget, "Cool" i thought "this is pretty good, but what is it? Its not rock, its not rap--Wait could it be! It must be(Gasp!) techno!" As soon as i acquired around 15$ i raced to the Best Buy to purchase the singles disc. And the rest, as you say, is history.

when i was 10 my brother gave my the mix CD Brothers Gonna Work It Out and I kinda listened to the stuff without really knowing anything about the chems. of course my mother freaked out on them but i got somehow interested in them. now that i am a musician and compose myself i just see how brilliant they are in their ideas and how they make songs out of them - awesome!

so that's how i got to become more interested and stuff. my favorite song: hey boy hey girl

i heard them wen hey boy hey girl came out. but i only got into them properly bout 6 months ago. since then ive gotten all their albums and they've quickly become one of my favourite bands. i also got to see em live in august in the reck en seine festival in paris, and WOW is the only reaction i can think of. can't wait till march to see em again

i think HBHG is one of the best track when played live, but i can not fault a chemicals brothers set, not at all

I think HBHG is an amazing tune, maybe there best. Its a really stand out tune, that doesnt get boring. In a live context it is fucking wicked. This is what really got me hooked on the chems.

Exit Planet Dust did it for me. That opening track, the "brothers gonna work it out" sample, the rock guitars, thundering bassline. Wasn't madly keen on the second album at the time and only discovered Surrender in hindsight. My loss.



I've been a bigger Orbital fan in the past few years but as they are no more, I've been looking more and more to the Chems for inspiration.



Saw them live for the first time at last year's Glastonbury Festival. There you are, standing in a field at night in the middle of nowhere, and the first thing you hear is "Hey girls..." and the crowd joining in with "Hey boys... superstar DJs, heeeeeeeeeere we go!!!!" Well, there's nowhere else on the planet you'd rather have been that night, was there? :)

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Someone in this forum said that A-Bombs are fast.

However, Fluke's track is not very fast... It's rather slow.

I have it on my copy of "Wipeout 2097".

blah could help, but add a late reply



The version of Atom bomb on the wipeout sound track is a remix. Its much slower and takes out alot of the energy of the track we all know and love. I remember this well because I was all happy when my friend got that sound track only to be confused as hell why that version was on it.

I heard Life is sweet on MTV late at nigh. at the time i was into learning more about electronic stuff.. specially since I was heavily into NIN at the time. I talked a friend into buying the album.. and did not get what I thought I was getting (I was expecting Life is sweet the album .. you know a mix of instruments and technology.. something more industrial .. with lyrics)



So `different from what I "wanted" i hated it at first .. it grew on me and I think Setting sun was the song that BLEW me away .. I love that song ..

Tuesday....this week

I am so proud of myself. Today my fellow coworker joined the brotherhood of chemicals. So i have been playing PTB and DYOH at work like almost everyday at work coz it's my ghetto stereo and i get to play all the techno in the world that i like. My manager has shown a little enthusiasm in my collection ranging from Led Zepplin to Amon Tobin. And PTB shines. Everybody seems to love Galvanize, the Boxer,Left right and ofcourse Surface...., So this kid who looks like Tom coz of his long redneck hair comes up to me and asks me " man these are some ill beats. who is this ?" at this moment i hear bells and clocks and gears turning in my head and i go "THE CHEMICAL FUCKIN BROTHERS MATE". Even though i am not english nor aussie i used the word mate just cos i love using it for no reason at all. but anyhoo i recommend him singles and next day he bought it....which the bonus cd. He really like BRB and Out of Control. I am so happy today.woho.

Oh My God, I found out about Chemical Brothers trough out my father!



Damn I heard "It doesn't Matter" from dig your own hole and i was

crazy about it!



My new Love is "Believe"......And I Love It!!



Come And Join Me (and my father!!!) In Amsterdam 24th of February!!!!



What a Party That Will BE!!!!!!!!!!



Love, Chantal ;-)

Taped Fatboy Slim night off channel 4 and watched it the next day to find an odd band playing along side norman at the red rocks. It was a few weeks before i was to go on a school trip to normandy (best school trip ever) and the day before i left i asked my mum to get me the latest chemical brothers album, surrender.

having not listened to any of it previously and not really knowing any of the tracks played at red rocks, the first song i heard was Music: Response, not fully but i recognised it from the video.

I taped three tracks rom the album to take with me to normandy, Music:Response, Got Glint? and Sunshine Underground. The Sunshine Underground was the first track i listened to properly and it was absolutely amazing.

Soon after i bout DYOH and the EPD then BGWIO where i started looking for chems details on the net. After Come With Us landed i had purchased everysingle general release chems single and album and im still planning to get everything else :)