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A key record of the 1990s, Exit Planet Dust invented the big-beat style that dominated British dance music in the second half of the decade, and it still sounds superb in its own right. Skull-crunching hip-hop loops, fuzz guitar, insistently repetitive spoken samples and thunderous basslines make up the blueprint for one of the most instantly energising albums ever recorded. Many of the titles--"Chemical Beats", "Fuck Up Beats", "Chico's Groove"--are fairly self-explanatory. Others show a level of erudite humour; "Song To The Siren" filches the name of a Tim Buckley ballad for a track more in keeping with the mysteries of a car alarm, while "One Too Many Mornings" is nothing that Bob Dylan would recognise in a hurry. Collaborations with Beth Orton ("Alive Alone") and the Charlatans' Tim Burgess ("Life Is Sweet") add human voices to the brilliant mechanical formula. --David Bennun
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CHEMICAL BROTHERS Exit Planet Dust (Deleted 1995 Dutch 11-track CD for the debut album including the singles Alive Alone featuring guest vocalist Beth Orton and Life Is Sweet featuring vocals from Tim Burgess from The Charlatans complete with the original picture sleeve XDUSTCD1)
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Exit Planet Dust was Tom and Ed's first album as The Chemical Brothers, the patenters of Big Beat. Drawing from work by the likes of The Dust Brothers (the Chem's previous name, as a sign of respect to the original American Duo), Big Beats was a hybrid of hiphop scratching and vocals, fuzzy guitars, hosts of acid bleeps, shreaking sirens and good ol' British bass. Beginning with the definitive Big Beats tracks Leave Home and In Dust We Trust, The Bros journey through the oncoming traffic of heavy beats, ear piercing sounds and the sweet vocal talents of Tim Burgess and Beth Orton, in the evil-sounding-but-superb Life is Sweet and slow, downbeat-but-still-bigbeat Alive Alone respectively. This was the birth of the finest form of dance on this planet and a landmark album. -Daniel Murtha
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This albumn is raw but has so many great beats like "chemical beats", "song to the siren", "in dust we trust" and "fucked up beats" that is a must for all chemical brothers and dance lovers. You will be boping to it for ever and it is better than most of todays stuff.
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This has to be the biggest big beat albums ever. The anthem song Leave home, is just the beginning of a freaky dance scape where they explore all manner of cool sounds. My favourite has to be the mellow No way of knowing if she's ever coming home, I don't know if it's called that but it has to be one of the most beautiful songs ever.
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cool
Since I was 15 was listening to CHM. This is sort of music, I listened to when I skate. Now when I am a bit bigger 16 yrs later, there still time to listen to the old school ones. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2011 by Marcin
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Their Finest Hour
I did write a whole review on this before my pc crashed at the vital moment. I just thought i'd give it the 5 stars it deserves. Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2010 by Mr. S. Bennett
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in my opinion "THE BEST"
i have all the albums (apart from we are the night) and i think this has to be the best. yes the beats are quite simple, but they are genius! Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2007 by a_burn
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a legendary album
Took me a while to buy this, ten years after its release. I thought the beats would be quite dated,which is kind of true,but then it was recorded 12 years ago. Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2006 by M. Jones
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ein klein elevator music?!
For a while I used to believe that the Chem's singles were the only audiable listenable stuf they could produce, and the rest is just to fill in the gaps, but this album prooves... Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2005
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The first and the worst
Released in 1996, this was the Chemical Brothers debut album. Unfortunately, it is also the weakest of the Chem's collections. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2005 by "angus_prior"
4.0 out of 5 stars
pop
the most poppy of their albums i think. still worth a listen.
Published on 8 July 2003 by "gnang"
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but a tad slow sometimes
I bought this CD on the recommendation of a friend, and was a little disappointed. Aside from the first track, some of it gets a little slow and repetetive. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2000
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