{"id":90396,"date":"2012-06-07T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90396\/chemical-brothers\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:51:52","slug":"chemical-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90396\/chemical-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Colder is a one-man &#8216;band&#8217; (the man being Marc Nguyen Tan; a DJ and remixer, from France).\u00a0 There are only two albums (Again and Heat).\u00a0 It&#8217;s a pity because Colder is one of my best &#8216;finds&#8217;.\u00a0 It is a unique sound.\u00a0 As the name suggests, the music is austere.\u00a0 It is a stripped-down blend of electronics, guitars and drums.\u00a0 The rhythms are strong and driving.\u00a0 The vocals are minimal and repetitious.\u00a0 Influences include Kraftwerk, Joy Division and The Clash.\u00a0 If you like Interpol, you may find Colder enjoyable.\u00a0 Colder is more &#8216;arty&#8217; though.\u00a0 Marc Nguyen Tan studied film at university and even made low-budget videos for some of the songs.\u00a0 There were some interesting concepts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colder: Crazy Love\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g4kzcdAMPDA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">The sound of The Chemical Brothers was fresh and exciting in the mid-nineties.\u00a0 The knob-twiddlers had a good run (the first three albums were fantastic).\u00a0 After the patchy Come With Us, a singles collection was released.\u00a0 After another mediocre album (Push The Button) and the dreadful We Are The Night, an updated singles collection was released.\u00a0 If you just want the best of The Chemical Brothers, I recommend going for the first compilation (Singles 93 &#8211; 03).\u00a0 The limited edition is worth finding (it contains b-sides, remixes and rarities).\u00a0 The bonus disc on Brotherhood is less impressive.\u00a0 It is full of the duo&#8217;s self-indulgent (and mostly boring) Electronic Battle Weapon tracks.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll probably only listen to it once.\u00a0 There are two exclusive tracks on Brotherhood.\u00a0 One of them is good (the euphoric Midnight Madness) and the other one is crap (the plodding Keep My Composure).\u00a0 The Chemical Brothers released Further in 2010.\u00a0 It was a return to form but not quite as good as the earlier material.\u00a0 The DVD (Singles 93 &#8211; 03) is worth mentioning.\u00a0 Most of The Chemical Brothers&#8217; videos are excellent (some of the best directors were hired, including Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry).<\/font><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=615FUp8aUmU&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">Dave Clarke remixed The Chemical Brothers.\u00a0 He also produced two solo albums &#8211; seven years apart.\u00a0 Aside from the first and last tracks, Archive One (1996) is straight-forward techno (it&#8217;s all a bit monotonous).\u00a0 Devil&#8217;s Advocate (2003) is more substantial.\u00a0 It is still basically techno but there are elements from other genres (like hip-hop).\u00a0 There is more variety, compared with Archive One.\u00a0 For hardcore fans, there is a live album.\u00a0 It comes with a DVD which contains two live shows (one is good and one is awful) and a short documentary (plus two promotional videos).\u00a0 The CD includes three bonus remixes.\u00a0 The Product 01 remix of What Was Her Name stands out.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wXLkjkfvdcc<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"3\">In the years between Zwan and the reformation of The Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan finally made his &#8216;solo&#8217; album (it is effectively a collaboration with Bon Harris from Nitzer Ebb).\u00a0 It is called The Future Embrace.\u00a0 The rhythms are distorted throughout the album (evidently a deliberate attempt to make Corgan&#8217;s music sound industrial).\u00a0 The abrasiveness is often quite irritating.\u00a0 There are a few good songs on the album though (notably To Love Somebody, a Bee Gees cover with a guest performance by Robert Smith).<\/font><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kG8CSPm6cjw<\/p>\n<p><strong><font face=\"helvetica\" size=\"4\">Further listening<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Letfield with vocal by John Lydon - Open Up (Chemical Brothers Mix) Remastered\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BbPlJqhNTGI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Phat Planet - Leftfield (Dave Clarke Remix)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7kuaZZkCA4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chemical Brothers - Come With Us (Fatboy Slim Remix)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ec1gx-jDmHk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colder is a one-man &#8216;band&#8217; (the man being Marc Nguyen Tan; a DJ and remixer, from France).\u00a0 There are only two albums (Again and Heat).\u00a0 It&#8217;s a pity because Colder is one of my best &#8216;finds&#8217;.\u00a0 It is a unique sound.\u00a0 As the name suggests, the music is austere.\u00a0 It is a stripped-down blend of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5386,5383,5385,108,5384],"class_list":["post-90396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-billy-corgan","tag-colder","tag-dave-clarke","tag-music-2","tag-the-chemical-brothers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}