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How The Chemical Brothers’ ‘Surrender’ became their biggest, brightest album (DJ Mag)

Released on 21st June 1999, The Chemical Brothers’ third album harnessed the enormity of trance, the ecstasy of acid house, and the vibrancy of psychedelia to become their boldest statement, and a mirror to the hedonistic mood of the UK at that time. Here, with the help of the duo’s Tom Rowlands, Ben Cardew [...]

Burning Down The House: how Talking Heads’ ‘Speaking in Tongues’ ignited New York’s dancefloors (DJ Mag)

By Michele Sensale|2024-01-15T18:11:45-05:00January 15th, 2024|Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, New York|

Released 40 years ago, Talking Heads’ fifth album was a firm fixture in Larry Levan’s tastemaking Paradise Garage record bag. A stone-cold new wave disco classic filled with now-iconic hits, it spread through New York’s clubs like wildfire. Here, Ben Cardew learns how ‘Speaking In Tongues’ enshrined one of the era’s least classifiable bands [...]