Apr 20 2021
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oh man, have i been waiting for this one. this was my first introduction to them, in the fall of 1995. i was super-leet, working in a computer lab, shuttling around my newton and an internal hard drive in the pocket of my mechanic's jacket. i'd remove the drive from a computer in the lab & install mine, write my papers or whatever, then put it all back together and go back home. and read the collected sherlock holmes on the bus back & forth on my newton. this is another 7-star album for me.
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Apr 26 2021
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A soft focus laser (like the green ones in clubs that pan around) trained squarely on your pleasure zones that hits (tickles?) the spot more often than not. Agreeable by design, which isn't an issue here because the Brothers' dedication to making techno enjoyable for a wider audience means an appreciation of pop song form and healthy servings of beats. I tip my hat to them for their public service.
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Mar 27 2021
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5
Everything I want out of an electronic music album. Literally bopped my head from start to finish.
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Mar 18 2023
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3
The perfect soundtrack for mindless, repetitive works tasks on a Friday morning.
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Jun 30 2021
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5
It's cool to hear electronic music that isn't just club music. This works just as well for simply setting a mood.
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Oct 08 2021
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Why is this on the list? I could have definitely died without hearing this and had 50 minutes of my life back to listen to something useful.
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Mar 05 2021
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5
Where it all began.
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Nov 28 2021
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5
I always liked "Dig your own hole" better (especially the buzz saw solo), but this one is great too. Very innovative, great beats. No song is a filler. And nice that they've put the more upbeat songs to the start and the more chill songs to the end. I absolutely see the impact it had at the time it came out.
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May 28 2022
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5
Hey boys
Hey girls
Superstar DJs
Here we go
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Apr 01 2021
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A favorite back in high school. Love the way it flows from track to track. It's cool that it works equally well as dance music and as a headphone ride. Starts with a Kraftwerk sample so you know they know their shit. I like the additive/subtractive way layers of elements/loops are used to build dramatic song structures. Tracks 1-6 are like the party and 7-11 are like the after-party. Used to put "one too many mornings" on mixtapes.
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Nov 11 2022
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3
Solid but uninteresting.
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Apr 09 2021
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5
Hugely underrated album from hugely underrated pioneers of big beat and electro. This is a belter!
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Aug 24 2021
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5
I discovered The Chemical Brothers, like many people, with the follow-up to Exit Planet Dust, the also amazing Dig Your Own Hole, and back in the day getting my hands on these albums wasn't that easy. Even considering that, I hate myself for not having listened to this album in full back in the day. I only knew a few songs, which I thought were great, but listening to the overall album is a whole another experience. Damn, guess I'll be listening this one on repeat these days.
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Sep 25 2021
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5
The brothers gonna pump you up!
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Oct 09 2021
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5
Really enjoyed this. As always, what I expected was vastly different than what I received. Added to library.
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Sep 27 2022
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5
This is 90s ‘Need for Speed’ techno and I love it
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Aug 12 2024
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5
I wasn't too receptive to electronic music when this came out, so first encountered it in a batch with their next two albums as well, and it's certainly my least favorite out of that list - was considering giving it a 4 as a result, but it won me back around to a 5.
Fave tracks - "Leave Home" and "Chemical Beats" from the slamming first half, "One Too Many Mornings
and "Alive Alone" from the cool down half!
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Aug 12 2024
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5
It's pretty awesome for a debut. I certainly fell in love with it when I first heard it and have been a big fan ever since.
Not sure I can pick a favourite but the opener gets you going and closer brings you back down.
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Feb 25 2021
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4
Really enjoyed some of these tracks. As with most electronic music, I can only listen to a few tracks before needing a break!
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Mar 27 2021
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4
Excellent mood and vibe. A little surprised at the lack of Dancy stuff.
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Feb 12 2022
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4
BBB (Big Beat Bangers)
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Apr 07 2022
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Cet album des Chemical Brothers m'a mis dans une colère noire. Il faut savoir que les Chemical Brothers ont coûté leur place dans la liste des 1001 à mon groupe favori, My Chemical Romance. En effet, seul un seul groupe de chimie pop pouvait être ajouté à la liste par Robert, qui a donc preferé les frères à la romance.
Seulement, on se rend rapidement compte que ce choix est une erreur. Très vite, les Chemical Brothers vont effectuer leur première bévue: le substrat de soude est mélangé avec la solution aqueuse, ce qui provoque une légère odeur de brulé très désagrable dans le laboratoire. Ensuite, l'un des frères va venir renverser le contenu de son erlenmeyer sur le microscope du coin de table, ce qui démontre le peu d'aise avec laquelles les Chemical Brothers maniaient leur matériel. Enfin, le mélange acide nitrique/magnesium opéré ne prendra jamais la couleur bleue attendue.
La comparaison fait très mal avec leurs camarades de classe de My Chemical Romance, qui dans le même temps ont obtenu deux prix nobel de chimie pour leur travaux sur l'arbre de Diane.
Un scandale de plus à l'actif de Robert, qui n'en finit plus d'enchainer les décisions douteuses.
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Apr 07 2022
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Un album caractéristique des Chemical Brothers.
Ceux-ci se présentent d'abord en blouse blanche à l'entrée du laboratoire et s'avancent chacun vers un robinet. Ils se munissent alors d'eau distillée et commencent à rincer une poignée de tubes à essai ainsi qu'un bécher. Une fois ceci fait, l'un des brothers verse délicatement de l'eau dans un tube alors que le second brother y ajoute de l'acide éthanoïque.
Ils étalonnent ensuite le pH-mètre avec les solutions tampon 4 et 7 et agitent la solution dont le pH est mesuré.
L'examinateur les interrompt soudain et leur demande de se verser chacun un litre d'acide chlorhydrique dans la bouche. Les Chemical Brothers s'exécutent naïvement. Quelques secondes plus tard, les deux sont transportés d'urgence à l'hôpital et laissent ainsi leur matériel chimique dans le laboratoire.
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Oct 02 2024
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Not my cup of tea, but bad it ain't.
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Oct 29 2021
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I would contend this is not one of the 1000 albums I needed to hear before I die.
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Oct 09 2020
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5
Nice
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Mar 09 2021
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5
Guay
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Apr 22 2021
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5
Classic shit.
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Feb 26 2021
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5
Nick thought it was a belter
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Apr 01 2021
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5
Awesome album, I realy digged it.
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Apr 22 2021
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5
A veces la electrónica me cansa porque me parece que puede ser muy monótona, pero con este disco no me paso, tiene varios moods (?) y es muy disfrutable
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Mar 12 2021
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5
Чемикал
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Jun 05 2021
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5
Surprisingly good! A nice mixture of chill, focusing and energising music, great for working to
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Jun 05 2021
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5
Top notch. Kind of psychedelic/electric?
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May 15 2021
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5
Really good and well put together album
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May 24 2021
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5
Quality. Maybe a tad relentless at points
Could do with some more variety between songs. The first six easily could all be the same song.
Also didn't know they used to be called "the dust brothers"
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May 24 2021
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5
- this album rocks but maybe dwells on some loops a little too long.
- I forgot how much fun it is to work to big-beat, album is almost too dance-able to go with spreadsheets.
- undersells its bass and guitars, oversells the phasing square synths.
- fairly repetitious structure in most tracks (strong & creative intro, energetic beats to 3/4 mark, then a downtempo loop breakdown that's a little too long)
- second half is a strong shift, astute ordering.
- The Matrix 4 can't come fast enough.
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May 18 2021
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5
Love a bit of the chemical brothers, love a continuous album, great stuff
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Jul 27 2021
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5
The start of a epic journey. Love it.
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Oct 30 2021
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5
Хороший альбом, но не лучший
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Nov 17 2021
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5
Gyors, felpörget, egyáltalán nem egysíkú vagy unalmas. Get shit done érzésem van amikor hallgatom. Fogom még hallgatni.
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Nov 18 2021
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5
YEEEEE CHEMICAAAAL, BUDUMMM BUDUMMMM
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Jan 07 2022
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5
Outstanding. Many happy memories
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Jan 28 2022
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5
I LOVE this! What an incredible debut album from the 70s fashion cover design to the songs. I've definitely been missing out for the last 16 or so years!
At any rate better late than never. This album is aggressive in all the ways great dance music should be. It starts off with the promise "The brothers gonna work it out" then spends the next 49 minutes doing just that.
The first half of the album fires on all cylinders. Ferocious! Then we get to enter "Chico's Groove" where the Brothers take things down a notch leading the beautiful "One Too Many Mornings" and into a perfect wind down.
I kept cranking this up as the album progressed. So good that at times it had me wondering if someone dropped an E into my sparkling water...
It will be tough to name a favorite song from this album. A fantastic masterpiece of EDM from start to finish!
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Jan 28 2022
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5
I was excited to see The Chemical Brothers pop up on the rotation. I am familiar with this duo in association with other artists of the style music, but didn’t know the album. It definitely lived up to my expectations. I loved it.
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Feb 04 2022
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5
Amazing album.
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Feb 10 2022
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5
Fucking love Chemical Brothers. One of the first bands I ever really fell in love with and they still have a special place in my heart. While I think they got even better than this debut, it's still absolutely killer.
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Feb 18 2022
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5
I never thought I'd like me some electric guitar and drums.
Chemical romance are crayyy boi
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Mar 10 2022
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5
Love the 90’s electronic sound
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Jun 14 2022
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5
I’m a big fan of this genre and I also love chemical brothers so I’m kinda biased
Seamless transitions.
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Jul 13 2022
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5
Heard before. Quality album, great production, great guests. Well done all round, weird album art though
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Aug 05 2022
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5
muito massa o fadinho eletrônico
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Aug 22 2022
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5
Classic
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Aug 29 2022
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5
nice
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Oct 01 2022
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5
Back when the Chemies used to mean something. big, bold and wall to wall slaps
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Dec 03 2022
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5
Guay
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Dec 13 2022
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5
A big-beat classic, Dig Your Own Hole and Surrender would see the sound go mainstream with celebrity contributers. But this is pure big-beat. Great.
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Jan 03 2023
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5
i don't understand how i never went bigger on the chemical brothers when they were in their pomp.
i don't know how i could have listened to this album and not have fell absolutely in love with them.
it genuinely baffles me that even having seen their phenomenal live shows and listened to all of their albums when they came out that i never went massive on them.
wish i could go back and see them in their early years.
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Jan 31 2023
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5
Reckon this'd be proper good to stare at the ceiling to
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Feb 13 2023
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5
Best electronic album this exercise has to offer so far. Thoroughly enjoyed it
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Mar 23 2023
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5
I really like this album and The Chemical Brothers in general. I need to spend more time with their music cause I really liked 'Dig Your Own Hole' as well when it came up on here for me previously.
This is a really strong debut and I love the psychedelic rock vibes mixed in with the acid house. I would have really dug seeing them live if I could have back when this came out.
Standout Tracks: Leave Home, In Dust We Trust, Chemical Beats, Chico's Groove, One Too Many Mornings, Life Is Sweet, Alive Alone
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Apr 15 2023
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5
Sempre all’avanguardia. Fortissimi
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May 11 2023
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5
Holy shit this album slaps. The beats early on are really strong, and just when it feels like enough it mellows out. Can see how this influenced the EDM scene and more.
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Jun 09 2023
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5
Loved it. This is what electronic music should sound like.
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Jun 14 2023
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5
Second The Chemical Brothers album on this list and first chronologically in their discography. I have listened to "Exit Planet Dust" before, but for some reason it didn't left any impression in me. After more thorough listening session, I thought that I like this album more than "Dig Your Own Hole", but still my favourite is "Surrender". Most likely through sentimental values, because songs and beats from "Exit Planet Dust" are really on par with anything else they recorded. Long parts with repeating beats, slightly changing and building momentum sound amazing on this record. Every track really held on its own and could easily be a single. After short consideration I think I will give it a 5 star, but probably one of the weakest so far - I enjoyed this album, but I feel something is missing.
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Jun 16 2023
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5
BANGER
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Jun 16 2023
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5
Yes yes yes quality solid tunes begining to end. Reminds me of the 90s me lad when me hair was long and my knees where strong.
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Aug 13 2023
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5
Пууушкааа
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Aug 14 2023
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5
It is a pure magical experience. To have an album that is basically a continuum mix is truly marvellous.
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Aug 15 2023
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Bought it in the 90s, and it is good.
No mistake, it is repetitive. Not only is it repetitive, it is also repetitive. Coupled with how often it repeats itself, you might think the repetition would get repetitive, but somehow the repetitiveness is ABSOLUTELY AWESOMENESS.
There's so much to love about this. It's catchy, it's clever, it's immaculately produced and it absolutely does not feel like it's almost thirty years old. The brothers' gonna work it out.
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Sep 14 2023
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De eerste beats worden ingezet en je wordt er eigenlijk gelijk vrolijk van. Als muziek dat vanaf de eerste toon kan bewerkstelligen, dan doe je iets goed. Je kan wel horen dat het inmiddels al flink wat jaren oud is, maar toch doet het niet gedateerd aan. Misschien waren dit de hoogtijdagen van de house, of big beat, of acid house, of electronica, of weet ik veel hoe al die stijlen heten. Of misschien is het een soort jeugdsentiment, een verzameling herinneringen aan de hand van de muziek van vroeger. Maar dit was weer lekker ouderwets genieten, terwijl ik eigenlijk geen enkel nummer herken als hitje. Zoals Eric zou zeggen: 10 sterren!!!
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Sep 14 2023
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Zodra je het album aanzet weet je het al: The Brothers Gonna Work It Out. De broers spelen met de digitale mogelijkheden en weten het continue interessant te houden. Onder andere door het vlekkeloos invoegen van bijzondere samples. Niet alleen de losse nummers krijgen de aandacht. De nummers op het eerste deel van het album vormen één geheel, terwijl er een behoorlijke variatie is. Aan de titels van de nummers te zien is dat ook wat ze willen bereiken. De luisteraar meenemen langs de verschillende (break)beat stijlen. Van bijna Leftfield achtige stukjes in het begin tot een triphopnummer aan het einde. Ik pak er even één uit. Chemical Beats is een echte Big Beat plaat, waarbij het hoofd niet netjes met de beat meeknikt, maar één keer in de paar seconden met kracht naar beneden dropt. Zoals bij Smack My Bitch Up van de Prodigy, maar dan wel een paar jaar eerder. Om maar even aan te geven dat je niet om dit album heen kan.
10 sterren!
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Sep 21 2023
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5
I like this album. I know some of Chemical Brothers' songs but they were not here. Still really good album.
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Oct 04 2023
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5
I think that this is my favourite Chemical Brothers album. I actually listened to this the other day, but any excuse to go again...
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Oct 15 2023
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5
I love this album - I put so many tracks from this album on mixtapes. Theres a theme for pretty much everything in here. Great beats and a fantastic groove. It stands up to the test of time, and is just as good to listen to now as it was in the 90s.
5/5
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Oct 16 2023
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5
I knew I liked big beat, but not like this. The record runs without seams, which is appropriate for the wordless senseless assault. Just drum machines for an hour, I wrote about the Chemical Brothers before; It's still fair but has depth this time and then some. Exit Planet Dust won't make you much of a partner dancer as it soundtracks the rest of your life.
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Jan 10 2024
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5
Liked it!
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Jan 19 2024
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5
Bangers.
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Feb 16 2024
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5
Awesome music! Great to have in the background while doing chores and stuff, or driving around.
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Feb 17 2024
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5
Guay.
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Feb 21 2024
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A breakbeat classic
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Feb 21 2024
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5
More like smoking planet dust and then dropping this bomb
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Mar 21 2024
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5
This album is incredible and an undeniably important part of electronic music, still sounds great even to this day.
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Mar 21 2024
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5
I love this album. Absolute game changer for electronic music at the time, demanding to be listened to from start to finish.
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Mar 21 2024
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5
Holds up well
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Mar 21 2024
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5
Excelente!!!!!!!!
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Apr 10 2024
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5
I listened to this a lot in the.mid 90s. Don’t feel like it’s aged well but it definitely took me back.
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Apr 13 2024
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5
These brothers gonna work it out!
5 stars easily and then realize the best was still to come, Dig Your Own Hole album, the successor. Yes I am that old that I saw them play in Paradiso, Amsterdam with their Block Rocking Beats after release of Dig your Own Hole.
Life is sweet. If you don't get energy from this music, you might as well be braindead.
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Apr 22 2024
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5
The brothers gonna work it out
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Apr 24 2024
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5
That's proper
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May 02 2024
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5
The first two Chemical Brothers albums were my introduction to electronic music and I still to this day have not found another group that I think sounds similar to this. Their sound is defined and unique. Partly nostalgia speaking but these two albums are easily in my top 10 most listened to albums of all time. 10/10
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May 05 2024
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5
There's a lot of electronic music to compete with these days, but this one holds up very well. Sweet beats and exciting sounds abound, especially in "Three Little Birdies" and "Chico's Groove."
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Jun 06 2024
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5
Where my love affair with dance music began ❤️
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Jun 06 2024
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5
This is NOT an album I can listen to every day. But I can see its value in different communities. If I am ever at a rave and I find out that this album isn’t on the setlist 🤢 I’ma go home 🤷🏽♀️! An underground club, this album and a few vices, sounds delicious. And strangely enough it kept me focused on my tasks throughout the hour I listened. It was fun. I enjoyed it.
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Jun 14 2024
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5
Much like this Chemical Brothers album, which made a big impact at the time, and I still think it is their best album. Different times..
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Jun 17 2024
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A record best played while walking under the blistering sunshine as the wind blows by, Exit Planet Dust is The Chemical Brothers not only unveiling themselves to the world but the world becoming a playground for their seemingly hedonistic approach to electronic music. Little did they know that they would set a template that would become carried out by their peers and that would subsequently turn their genre into a juggernaut by decade's end.
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Jun 21 2024
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Nice
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Jul 02 2024
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What a beast of an album - there are very little in the way of famous singles besides some lesser known ones but the whole album bangs hard end to end. A classic and underestimated one. Forgot how awesome The Chemical Brothers were at their height.
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Jul 04 2024
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5
I enjoyed listening to a predominantly percussion band
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Jul 18 2024
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No one can convince me that the chemical brothers aren't some alien overlords that pick the perfect music to influence the genre with each generation.
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