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Dig Your Own Hole [VINYL]

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  • Vinyl (31 Mar 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B00004WPG5
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  Mini-Disc  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 386,061 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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To follow up their bombastic 1995 album Exit Planet Dust, the Chemical Brothers fine-tuned their bombastic beats and produced a rock-solid pop album (pun intended). Dig Your Own Hole finds the common ground between rock & roll and techno, both in spirit and substance. Singles like "Block Rockin' Beats," "Elektrobank," and "Setting Sun" (featuring vocals by Oasis's Noel Gallagher) may lack the big hair and pomposity of rock music, but they make up for it in spades, with sampled and real guitars battling for space with sirens and distorted hip-hop drums. The album reeks of pure enthusiasm and energy, evoking a crowd-pleasing exuberance that makes Dig Your Own Hole a Back in Black for the late 1990s. Pure stadium techno. --Matthew Corwine

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CLASSIC Seminal chemical brother album setting the tone for many others. Includes block rockin' beats, don't stop the rock and dig your own hole. A piece of british musical history

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Dig Your Own Hole is not merely another EPD. An important album that should be recognised for bridging the gap between Rock and Techno. Block Rockin' Beats and Setting Sun are the most recognised of these tunes, as they feature twisted guitar riffs and drum loops to give something that many of us never thought could exist; Techno and Rock together. However, Tom and Ed don't forget how to make pure, unrefined Electronic music, either, with tracks like Get Up On It Like This, and the trippy Lost In The K-Hole (K standing for Ketamine, you get the picture.) It's a much rawer sound than EPD's, and as such is quite a handful. However, Tom and Ed's highlight is left to the end. The Private Psychedelic Reel. The name alone is enough to realise that this is a mammoth track, which is nothing short of genius. Never have I heard a song a awesome as this. Futuristic sounds and whizzing noises lead to the climactic end, with an awesome electronically enhanced clarinet solo. The track is brilliant throughout. Too difficult to describe it anymore, the best thing to do is listen to it yourself.

It places above the commercial misery that is Surrender, but isn't quite as good as EPD on the whole.

Oh, and Don't Stop The Rock and It Doesn't Matter are class.

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An quite breath-takingly brilliant piece of work only surpassed (or equalled???) in recent years by fellow genius' Leftfield and The Prodigy. Dig Your Own Hole is an album where any song can be listened to depending on your mood. The obvious title track & 'electrobank' being the highlights are for when your in the mood for a laugh and 'where do i begin' is the perfect song to chill out to.......SUPERB album shame about the horribly commercial follow-up
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Format:Vinyl
Many people I know diss this album and the whole breakbeat scene, but this album takes you on more of a journey than any nu metal garbage ever can. From the hype of 'Block Rockin Beats', stopping off at the f***ed up psycedelia of 'Piku', the rock-techno riot of 'Setting Sun', and the calm of 'Where Do I Begin' and 'Private Psychedelic Reel', this is an abosolute classic. Even if you don't like dance music, this is a must have for any music collection. A true milestone in the British music scene.
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Great!!
Comment in spanish: A pesar de que han pasado ya muchos años desde su lanzamiento, Dig your own hole continua siendo uno de los mejores cd de su genero. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Daniel
Ten years on, still a massive album
Way back when, this was one of the defining big beat albums. Massive percussion, explosions etc underneath layers of almost discordant samples and loops. Read more
Published on 1 May 2007 by R. B. Moore
So near....
Here's my review of 'Dig Your Own Hole':

1. Block Rockin' Beats: 9/10- pure quality breakbeat funk
2. Dig Your Own Hole: 10/10- one of the phattest tunes ever
3. Read more

Published on 15 April 2005 by Hexalon
Superlative
'Dig Your Own Hole' is a masterpiece, even better than 'Exit Planet Dust'. It shows that The Chemical Brothers back catalogue can rival that of Underworld. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2004 by Mr. C. Mullen
Quite simply the best album dance music has produced
This album is, quite rightly, one of the most hyped albums of recent years. From the pounding, energetic Block rockin' beats to the sublime flow of Private psychedelic reel this... Read more
Published on 20 May 2002 by "pinkfloydpeter"
great stuff
well i think most has been said about this album by now, all i want to say is that 'private...' is the best songs theyve every done its a great collaberation between tom and ed and... Read more
Published on 9 April 2002 by april__29@hotmail.com
The definitive Chemical sound!
After the very uncelebrated first album, which still stands as a break-through in break beat masterery, the Chemical Brothers second album is the album to which an unmistakable... Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2002
Brilliant yet the one that everybody forgets!
I am still amazed by the number of people who own 'exit planet dust' and 'surrender' and yet do not own 'dig your own hole'. Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2001
My favourite album of all time
hi, by the time you've read this review you've read ten others very similar. i'll keep it short. the opener, BLB, is excellent, Elektrobank moves you, Get Up On It Like This groves... Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2001 by Robert W. Griffin
The Best Album Ever.
In 1995 the Chemical Brothers brought big beat to the world with their classic album exit planet dust. Read more
Published on 18 April 2001
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