from the LP Dig Your Own Hole, Astralwerks Records, 1997Unless you were asleep through the second half of the ‘90s, you are well aware of the Chemical Brothers; remember, they were the ones (along with Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk) who made it okay for mainstream Americans to like electronic music, and in so doing brought about a second wave of the rave explosion over here. Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons were both DJs for about a decade before deciding to team up and produce the beats instead of just spinning them, and this was their second full-length album; in my opinion, it stands as the apex of their career. There isn’t a single throwaway on the album, but I am specifically partial to this track…hmm, I wonder why that could be? To be frank, this is both an honest attempt at a musical representation of a K-hole & also a fitting soundtrack if you find yourself in a K-hole---something my friends and I used to have a habit of doing on purpose, albeit, over a decade ago now…
