Dig Your Own Hole by The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers: Ed Simons, Tom Rowlands. Additional personnel includes: Noel Gallagher, Beth Orton (vocals); Jonathan Donahue (clarinet); Ali Friend, Seggs (bass). Recorded at Orinoco Studios, South London, England. DIG YOUR OWN HOLE was nominated for 1998 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and Best Alternative Music Performance. "Block Rockin' Beats" won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Personnel: Beth Orton (vocals). Chemical Brothers Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands waste no time on their nuclear-weapon of a second album proving they are masters of the techno groove. DIG YOUR OWN HOLE opens with a sampled shout-out by old-school gangsta Schoolly D, a syncopated bass line, and a drum loop that gives credence to the song's title, "Block Rockin' Beats." This smorgasbord of sounds--a hallucinatory interweaving of hip-hop, techno, trance and the Chemicals' trademark synthesized guitar loop--builds up and cold-rocks the first five minutes of the record like a tsunami crashing as...