Chemical Brothers
Chemical Brothers - Brother's Gonna Work It Out (Virgin) Non-stop dance albums have frequented record shelves since the end of the 1980s, with the advent of rave culture and the crossover of dance music to the mainstream.
With everybody doing it for aeons, how did the Chemical Brothers' latest contribution fare? A spin of this release should obtain a thumbs-up from even the harshest critic.
Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons are not offering a compilation of current hits on Brother's Gonna Work It Out; this release is more like the Chemicals' tribute to the greatest moments in the history of dance music.
We find the funk of Willie Hutch mixed with the Chemicals' own brand of thumping big beats; or the swirling acid house of Unique 3 alongside the hip-hop values of Freestyle's Don't Stop The Rock.
Stars of yesteryear, such as techno pioneers Meat Beat Manifesto and Renegade Soundwave, also make appearances.