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小档案中文名化学兄弟乐团外文名 The Chemical Brothers 国籍英国组建时间 1989 艺人资料来自英国的化学兄弟乐团，组建于1989年，这是一支融合了Big Beat,Club/Dance,Electronica,Funky Breaks以及Trip-Hop等众多音乐元素在内的乐团，曾经一度风靡世界各地的DISCO,CLUB,他们的MV同样地前卫。The Chemical Brothers的成员为Tom Rowlands和Ed Simons，他们两位是在伦敦修历史而认识的. 刚开始是以重新混音（Remix）一些知名乐团的曲子而出名的，像Primal Scream,Mainc Street Preachers... 等等，就连The Prodigy的Voodoo People也被他们重新改造过.他们原名Dust Brothers，但因和美国一个Hip-Hop团体同名，便以自己的一首曲子《Chemical Beats》为名而改为The Chemical Brothers。The Chemical Brothers的音乐可说是越来越具有爆发力，接连的第二张专辑《Dig Your Own Hole》，首支单曲《Block Rockin' Beats》为其成绩最好的一首。密集，厚沉的的鼓声，加重的Bass，加上电子噪音墙，让人听了浑身是劲。再来的Elektrobank以Big-Beat节拍加上"工业噪音"(一些合成，很吵的声响），更是别具风味。组合于2004年底发表的首支暖身单曲《Galvanize》取样了Najat Aatabu这带动当地女歌手新浪潮，红遍北非、法国与中东之摩洛哥巨星因而充满异国风情之作，加上饶舌名嘴Q-Tip助阵，果然再度震翻舞池，不但获 BBC Collective大力赞扬，更迅速登上NME的“Track Of The Week”，成功燃起乐迷对The Chemical Brothers新作的渴求。2005年新春第一炮推出的专辑《Push The Bottom》之中，借用新世纪女歌者Sara Ayers诗般念白的《Come Inside》有著当年《Hey Boy、Hey Girl》的力道；取样嘻哈女将Rah Digga的经典劲曲《Shake Break Bounce》掀动摇摆狂热；纽约嘻哈大将Mos Def胞弟Anwar主导的《Left Right》，显然是The Chemical Brothers近来最破格的嘻哈饶舌单曲；继Oasis之Noel Gallagher之后，当代英国摇滚大团主唱为“化学”献声的卡位战则轮到The Charlatans之Tim Burgess这般听来，The Chemical Brothers虽不改昔日广邀客座歌手的惯性，但其他阵容中竟还有Bloc Party主唱Kele Okereke与Heavenly力捧之The Magic Numbers两组。2007年发行录音室专辑《We Are the Night》。2008年发行精选集《Brotherhood》。2010年5月发行精选集《The Sunday Times》和录音室专辑《Further》。2011年发行原声带《Hanna》。2012年，发行现场专辑《Don't Think》。2015年7月发行录音室专辑《Born in the Echoes》，12月专辑《Wide Open》发行。2016年，发行专辑《Wide Open》，在夏季开启Chemical X mas Love Is All!Live演唱会。 The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo composed of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, originating in Manchester in 1989. Along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture. In the UK, they have had six number one albums and 13 top 20 singles, including two number ones.Rowlands and Simons then started to DJ at a club called "Naked Under Leather" in the back of a pub in 1992, under the alias of "The 237 Turbo Nutters" (named after the number of their house on Dickenson Road in Manchester and a reference to their Blackburn raving days). The pair would play hip hop, techno, and house. Rowlands and Simons called themselves The Dust Brothers, after the US production duo famous for their work with the Beastie Boys. After a while, they began to run out of suitable instrumental hip hop tracks to use, so they started to make their own. Using a Hitachi hi-fi system, a computer, a sampler, and a keyboard, they recorded "Song to the Siren", which sampled This Mortal Coil. "Song to the Siren" was released on their own record label, called "Diamond Records" (after Ed's nickname). In October 1992, they pressed 500 white label copies and took them to various dance record shops around London, but none would play it, saying that it was too slow (the track played at 111 BPM). They sent a copy to London DJ Andrew Weatherall, who made it a permanent fixture in his DJ sets. Weatherall also signed the band to his Junior Boy's Own label. In May 1993, Junior Boy's Own released "Song to the Siren".Around June 1993, the Dust Brothers did their first remixes. The first was "Packet of Peace" for Justin Robertson's Lionrock group, followed by songs from Leftfield, Republica, and The Sandals. Later in 1993, The Dust Brothers completed work on their ‘Fourteenth Century Sky’ EP, released in January 1994. It contained the ground-breaking "Chemical Beats", which epitomized the duo's genre-defining big beat sound. The EP also contained "One Too Many Mornings", which for the first time showed the less intense, more chilled-out side of The Dust Brothers. Both "One Too Many Mornings" and "Chemical Beats" would later appear on their debut album. ‘Fourteenth Century Sky’ was followed later in 1993 by the ‘My Mercury Mouth EP.’ "Chemical Beats" was also part of the soundtrack for the first edition of the ‘Wipeout’ games series, having been featured in Wipeout for the PlayStation in 1995.In October 1994, The Dust Brothers became resident DJs at the small, but influential Heavenly Sunday Social Club at the Albany pub in London's Great Portland Street. Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, James Dean Bradfield, and Tim Burgess were regular visitors. The Dust Brothers were subsequently asked to remix tracks by Manic Street Preachers and The Charlatans, plus Primal Scream's "Jailbird" and The Prodigy's "Voodoo People". These two remixes received television exposure, being playlisted by MTV Europe's "The Party Zone" in 1995. Early in 1994, The Dust Brothers were approached in the club one Sunday by Noel Gallagher, from Oasis, who at the time were becoming one of the most prominent guitar bands in Britain. Gallagher told the duo that he had a Balearic-inspired track which he had written and would like the Dust Brothers to remix. However, over time, Gallagher changed his mind, and in the end the Brothers did not remix it.In March 1995, The Dust Brothers began their first international tour, which included the United States – where they played with Orbital and Underworld – then a series of European festivals. Also around this time, objections were filed by the original Dust Brothers over the use of their name, and so Rowlands and Simons had to decide on a new name. They decided to then call themselves "The Chemical Brothers" after "Chemical Beats" (Simons' grandmother had suggested they call themselves "The Grit Brothers").In June 1995, they released their fourth single, the first under their new identity. "Leave Home" was released on Junior Boy's Own, as a preview of the imminent debut album and became the band's first chart hit, peaking at No. 17.In July 1995, The Chemical Brothers released their debut album ‘Exit Planet Dust’ (the title inspired by their name change) on Freestyle Dust/Junior Boy's Own. In October 1995, the duo returned to the Heavenly Sunday Social for a second and final run of DJ dates.In January 1996, ‘Exit Planet Dust’ was certified gold. The Chemical Brothers released their first new material in six months on Virgin, the ‘Loops of Fury’ EP. The four-track release was limited to 20,000 copies, but is now available for digital download. It entered the UK charts at No. 13. ‘NME’ described the lead track as "splashing waves of synths across hard-hitting beats". The EP also contained a Dave Clarke remix of "Chemical Beats", and two other new tracks, "Get Up on It Like This" and "(The Best Part Of) Breaking Up".In February 1996, ‘Select’ magazine published a list of the 100 best albums of the 1990s thus far. ‘Exit Planet Dust’ was listed at Number 39. In August 1996, The Chemical Brothers supported Oasis at Knebworth, where 125,000 people attended each of the two shows.In March 1997, the Brothers released the second track from their forthcoming album. "Block Rockin' Beats" went straight to No. 1 in the UK, possibly thanks, this time, to its Schoolly D vocal sample and re-working of the bassline from 23 Skidoo's single "Coup". The NME named it "Single of the Week" and said "It throbs like your head might if you had just done a length underwater in a swimming pool full of amyl." It later won them a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.On 7 April 1997 The Chemical Brothers released their second album, ‘Dig Your Own Hole’. It was recorded at the band's own south London studio, with the title taken from graffiti on the wall outside. The album was well received, with ‘Mixmag’ rating it 10/10 and calling it "mad enough to be thrilling, slick enough for not even remotely trendy coffee tables".During the summer of 1997, the Brothers toured extensively, particularly in the United States. They also became residents at Tokyo's Liquid Rooms. In August, The Chemical Brothers achieved rapprochement with the US Dust Brothers, and asked them to remix the forthcoming single "Elektrobank". They themselves also became highly sought-after for remixes for other artists. In September, the next single from ‘Dig Your Own Hole’, "Elektrobank" was released. In November, the pair played at Dublin's Point Theatre, with support from Carl Cox. They also began a US tour in Detroit.At the end of the year, ‘Dig Your Own Hole's final track, the nine-minute-long "The Private Psychedelic Reel", gave rise to a limited-edition mini-EP of the same name. The B-side consisted of a live version of "Setting Sun", recorded at the Lowlands Festival, Netherlands on 24 August 1997. Also in December, following four sold-out US shows, The Chemical Brothers toured the UK, concluding in a sold-out show at Brixton Academy, LondonIn 1998, they concentrated more on DJ'ing, although some remixes did see the light of day, including "I Think I'm in Love" from Spiritualized. Both a vocal remix and an instrumental remix were included in the single release. Each clocked in at over seven-and-a-half minutes. Another remix completed by the Brothers was "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp" by Mercury Rev. This was another extension in the association between the two bands, since Mercury Rev's Jonathon Donahue contributed to "The Private Psychedelic Reel" on ‘Dig Your Own Hole’.In September 1998, a second mix album, ‘Brothers Gonna Work It Out’, was released. It contains some of their own tracks and remixes, as well as songs from artists who have influenced their sound, such as Renegade Soundwave, Meat Beat Manifesto, Carlos "After Dark" Berrios, and Kenny 'Dope' Gonzales.In May 1999, The Chemical Brothers played three UK dates in Manchester, Sheffield and Brighton, their first since December 1997. Also that month, they released their first new original material in two years, a track called "Hey Boy, Hey Girl". This was more house-influenced than big beat. In interviews at the time, Rowlands and Simons indicated that the track was inspired by nights out at Sheffield club Gatecrasher. The track was also one of their more commercially accessible tracks and went to number 3 in the UK charts.Their third album, ‘Surrender’, was released in June 1999. It featured vocals from Noel Gallagher, Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue, and Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval. As "Hey Boy, Hey Girl" had suggested, the album was more house-oriented than the previous two. On one of the album's stand out tracks, "Out of Control", New Order's Bernard Sumner supported by Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie provided vocals. It reached No. 1 in the UK album charts. The Michel Gondry-directed music video for "Let Forever Be", which utilized ground-breaking video and film effects in its depiction of a young woman's nightmares, also received a lot of attention.In June 2000, Tom and Ed played the Pyramid stage at the Glastonbury Festival. In August 2000 they played to a large crowd at the main stage at Creamfields festival, Ireland. In December 2000, The Chemical Brothers aired one of their new tracks, "It Began in Afrika" at their New York DJ gigs, supporting U2.In 2001, they were quite active with releases and live performances. Early in the year, they began working on a fourth album, provisionally titled ‘Chemical Four’. The first track which fans got a taste of was "It Began in Afrika", as previously played in their DJ set in New York. The track would make its live debut in California in April 2001, at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Another new track, "Galaxy Bounce", also got its public debut at Coachella. As had become customary for their releases and experiments, "It Began in Afrika" was first pressed as a promo, as part of the "Electronic Battle Weapon" series. It received much airplay on dance music radio shows in the UK, and became more and more popular in clubs over the course of the summer. It also became one of the "anthems" in Ibiza as the summer progressed. It was given a full commercial single release in September, reaching No. 8 in the UK singles chart, even though no promotional video was made for the track.Rowlands and Simons also remixed a track from Fatboy Slim's ‘Halfway Between the Gutter’ and the Stars, entitled "Song for Shelter". This remix was released as a single on 3 September 2001 (one week before "It Began in Afrika") as the CD2 single for "Song for Shelter / Ya Mama". It reached No. 30 in the UK Singles Charts (sales were combined with the CD1 single).The Chemical Brothers finished work on another album, ‘Come with Us’, in October 2001. It featured collaborations with Richard Ashcroft of The Verve ("The Test"), and long-time collaborator Beth Orton ("The State We're In"). The album was released in January 2002, preceded by a single, "Star Guitar", a melodic Balearic beat number, with a promotional video by Michel Gondry that featured passing scenery synchronized to the beat viewed through a train window. What would be the second track on the album, "It Began in Afrika", was released 10 September 2001 to be circulated around the clubbing scene where it was a popular hit. "Star Guitar" was also released as a DVD single, the pair's first. Come with Us, was less well received than their previous albums, but nonetheless went straight to No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart in the first week of its release, selling 100,000 copies. In April, the title track from the album was released as a single with remixes by Fatboy Slim as part of a double A-sided release with "The Test".During the summer of 2002, The Chemical Brothers traveled the festival circuit to promote the album. Later in 2002, they released two EPs, one specifically aimed at Japan and the other the US (entitled ‘AmericanEP’). Both contained remixes, live versions and B-sides. Additionally, the band produced New Order's final non-album single "Here to Stay", and remixed the song as well. One of their other major songs from this album was "Galaxy Bounce", which was popular and featured as the main title music for the Xbox game ‘Project Gotham Racing’. It was also included on the soundtrack for the movie ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’. "Star Guitar" was featured as a song on the PSP's ‘Lumines II’.Two other songs, "Come with Us (Introduction)" and "Star Guitar (Title Screen)", were featured on a ‘PlayStation 2’ racing game titled ‘WRC II’: Extreme. Both songs are instrumental. The Song ‘My Elastic Eye’ from the Come with Us album was played in the 2004 movie ‘The Butterfly Effect’ starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart.In early 2003 saw Rowlands and Simons back in the studio working on new material, including "The Golden Path", a collaboration with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. This was released in September 2003, at the same time as a "best of" album, entitled Singles 93–03, marking ten years of The Chemical Brothers' releases. Singles 93–03 included most, but not all, of their singles. A second new track, in addition to "The Golden Path", was included on the album, called "Get Yourself High". Singles 93–03 was also released on DVD, with extra features including selected live performances and interviews with Rowlands, Simons, and many of their collaborators from throughout the period. "Get Yourself High", which featured Canadian rapper k-os on vocals, was released as a single in November 2003.In late 2003 and 2004, The Chemical Brothers continued to work in the studio on new material and a remix of "Slow" by Kylie Minogue. After being released on rare white label vinyl, it was subsequently given a commercial release in March on CD (on her next single "Red Blooded Woman") and on exclusive 12" vinyl picture disc (containing two other Kylie remixes). In Summer 2004 they returned to the festival circuit, including appearances at the Glastonbury Festival, Tokyo, Scotland, and Ireland. They also visited South America for the second time (the first time being in 1999), arriving at Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. It was during these sets that they played new material, including "Acid Children", which proved to be one of the most popular new tracks.In September 2004, The Chemical Brothers released the seventh "Electronic Battle Weapon". "Electronic Battle Weapon 7" was being released as a one-sided promo-only 12", containing "Acid Children". A marked departure from the Chemical Brothers' previous musical endeavours, it featured a screeching 303 bassline and a distinctive vocal sample; a pitch-altered vocal sample proclaiming "You Are All My Children Now!", which is lifted from the horror film ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge’. It was coupled with the projection of a sinister clown mouthing these same words at their live gigs.The Electronic Battle Weapon series of promo releases have typically been newly recorded Chemical Brothers tracks, released on promo to allow DJs to test them in a club environment, and to gauge their popularity.In 2004, The Chemical Brothers began work on ‘Push the Button’, their fifth studio album, which features collaborations with Tim Burgess, Kele Okereke, and Anwar Superstar, amongst others. The album was released on 24 January 2005."Galvanize", which features rapper Q-Tip on vocals, was the first single to be taken from ‘Push the Button’, and premiered exclusively on iTunes. The single was released on 17 January 2005, and entered the UK chart at No. 3. The second single, "Believe" (featuring Kele Okereke from Bloc Party), failed to crack the top 10, but still made it into the top 20, peaking at No. 18. "The Boxer", featuring Tim Burgess, became the duo's first single to fail to crack the top 40.The album and single "Galvanize" won a Grammy at the Grammy Awards of 2006. One of the songs in this album, "The Big Jump", appears in the video game ‘Burnout Revenge’, as well as ‘Project Gotham Racing 3’. The track "Surface to Air" features a pulsing chord progression and bassline reminiscent of the intro to the Strokes song "The Modern Age".An unofficial, remixed version of the album entitled ‘Flip the Switch’ was released as a free download, along with the ‘Believe’ EP, featuring six further remixes of "Believe".In September 2006, The Chemical Brothers were revealed as the first musicians to be involved in Tate Tracks.Tate Modern invited various groups and songwriters to choose a work that inspired them from the gallery's collection of modern art and then write a track about it. The Chemical Brothers' submission, ‘Rock Drill’, was inspired by the Jacob Epstein sculpture ‘Torso in Metal from The Rock Drill’, and could be heard on headphones in front of the work in the gallery.From October 2006, it also became available to hear online at the Tate Tracks website.The Brothers announced in June 2006 on their official web forum that the duo had been working on fresh material, specifically an album, codenamed "Chemical 6".Simons also wrote that the band would be playing select venues in the Summer 2007 season, specifying Rome, and also Fabric in London. Simons is also quoted as saying that the duo are "hoping to put a battle weapon out for the summer",possibly referring to the Electronic Battle Weapon series, the somewhat experimental tracks the band occasionally release on white label.Electronic Battle Weapons 8 & 9 were debuted on Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 show on 8 December 2006. The double sided vinyl was finally released just before The Chemical Brother's much anticipated New Year's Eve gig at the famous Turnmills in London. The vinyl had a limited edition release worldwide and has been received well by fans, DJs, and critics alike. Electronic Battle Weapon 8, at about six and a half minutes, is very distinct from the "big acid" style that the earlier Battle Weapons adhered to. It is characterised by 'thundering' drums with a rising synth line. A version of this track features on the ‘We Are the Night’ album and is entitled "Saturate". "Electronic Battle Weapon 9" is a typical Chemicals dancefloor track with their trademark vocoder vocals coupled with sirens and a basic 'tribal' melody.At the same Turnmills gig, the Brothers also played a previously unreleased song at midnight to welcome 2007, which went down well with the crowd. This track eventually emerged as "Burst Generator", found on the forthcoming album ‘We Are the Night’. Many were left wondering if the latest in the Electronic Battle Weapon series were simply one off experiments or signal a new direction they could take with the new album, perhaps swaying from their genre defining big beat albums of the past. The song was also the band's 100th released song.On 21 March 2007, The Chemical Brothers officially announced their forthcoming album on MySpace. The new album, entitled We Are the Night, was released on 2 July 2007 in the United Kingdom and 17 July 2007 in the United States. The Chemical Brothers cited a delay in the production of artwork for this delay. EMI subsequently released an online Chemical Brothers computer game as an apology.The track listing was released to the fans on the official mailing list on 10 April. The new album is heavily collaborated, with the likes of Klaxons ("All Rights Reversed"), Midlake ("The Pills Won't Help You Now"), Ali Love ("Do It Again"), and Willy Mason ("Battle Scars").On 12 April 2007, Pete Tong again had the privilege of giving the world the very first preview of a Chemicals track. This time it was the first single "Do It Again" off their new album, aired on his BBC Radio 1 "In New Music We Trust" show. The official release of the single was 4 June (digital download) and 14 June (12", 7", and CD). The album went on general release in the UK on 2 July 2007.In September 2007, The Chemical Brothers played a free live gig in Trafalgar Square as part of the Becks Fusions event. All who attended were provided with 3D glasses to view the on-screen visual effects.The Chemical Brothers supplied a new track for the ‘Heroes’ soundtrack, titled "Keep My Composure".On 30 March 2010, the band announced on their website that their seventh studio album, titled ‘Further’, would be released on 22 June and would be "the band's first to be released with corresponding films made specifically to match each of the 8 audio tracks." The films were made with long-time visuals collaborators Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall. Before the release of the album, the band played four shows in May at the London Roundhouse where they played the album and its accompanying films in their entirety. The films featured on a special edition DVD and on the iTunes LP edition.Most reviews have been positive, with BBC Music declaring that "... synths are brutally manhandled and pushed to their limits across the eight tracks". ‘The Irish Times’ reported that "This is a very impressive collection that is carried along with a stirring sense of velocity and momentum". However, praise was not unanimous for the album, with the American rock magazine Spin giving it a rating of three out of five stars.At the New York Comic Con, on 10 October 2010, English film director Joe Wright announced that The Chemical Brothers would be scoring the soundtrack to his upcoming film, ‘Hanna’.Wright, who had worked with The Chemical Brothers in the past as a member of the visual company Vegetable Vision, stated that he was "very excited to finally ... work with a more modern beat. There's a lot of bass, it's very loud." The soundtrack was released exclusively on iTunes on 15 March 2011 and on CD on 4 July 2011.Two weeks after the announcement regarding ‘Hanna’, rumors began circulating that The Chemical Brothers had recorded part of the score for the movie ‘Black Swan’, after a post in Ed Simon's Twitter account. A second post on the Chemical Brothers' own Twitter account seemed to confirm this. On 22 November 2010, a ‘Black Swan’ music video was released along with the movie trailer. This featured a different version of the track "Don't Think" and announced that the movie would feature new music from The Chemical Brothers, along with a handful of other artists. The next day, the names of the eight tracks not composed by Clint Mansell – Black Swan's main composer – were released, listing The Chemical Brothers as contributing three new songs for the movie. On 29 November, an exclusive video was posted on RollingStone.com, containing more footage of the alternate version of "Don't Think". Mansell's work was released the next day. No announcement has been made yet on whether the original tracks not by Mansell would be given a release or not.On 7 March 2012, it was announced that The Chemical Brothers would be scoring their second movie soundtrack, for the bank heist film ‘Now You See Me’. However, this was later denied by Tom Rowlands, who stated that the band was in talks at an early stage, but had to pull out of the project due to scheduling conflicts.On 21 October 2014, The Chemical Brothers released new MP3 single "This Is Not A Game" which was created for ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1’.In December 2014, after an appearance of The Chemical Brothers at the 2015 Sónar festival was announced, it was revealed that a new album is scheduled for release in 2015.In April 2015, videos containing animation and audio loops appeared on the official Chemical Brothers Facebook page and at thechemicalbrothers.com, ahead of the imminent release of new music from the duo. On 23 April, their new song "Sometimes I Feel so Deserted" premiered on BBC Radio 1. On 17 July, they released ‘Born in the Echoes’, their eighth album.Studio album ‘Wide Open’ was released in February 2016.The duo started “Chemical X mas Love Is All!”live in London summer 2016.

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