{"id":623500,"date":"2024-05-07T19:41:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicsynclicense.com\/?p=623500"},"modified":"2024-05-07T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:48:13","slug":"see-exclusive-images-from-the-new-chemical-brothers-book-paused-in-cosmic-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/see-exclusive-images-from-the-new-chemical-brothers-book-paused-in-cosmic-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"See Exclusive Images From the New Chemical Brothers Book \u2018Paused in Cosmic Reflection\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t35 years ago, the trajectory of electronic music history shifted when Ed Simons met Tom Rowlands at the University of Manchester. Then students, the pair would go on to comprise one of the most celebrated electronic acts in the history of the then-nascent genre, after they united as The Chemical Brothers. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe three and a half decades of shows, albums and block-rockin\u2019 beats that have ensued since are under the microscope in the latest Chemical Brothers offering, Paused in Cosmic Reflection<\/em>. Out today (May 7) via Mobius publishing, the retrospective book unpacks, in often granular detail, the Brothers\u2019 mythology from the earliest days as students to rising U.K. stars to genre trendsetters and worldwide heroes. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with extensive interviews with the duo themselves, the book feature new interviews with friends and collaborators, including Noel Gallagher, Wayne Coyne, Beth Orton, Michel Gondry and Beck. The 300-plus-page Paused In Cosmic Reflection<\/em> also includes many rare and and never-before-seen photographs. Assembled by Robin Turner, the book is dedicated to Stuart \u201cJammer\u201d James, the group\u2019s longtime tour manager, who died in 2015. <\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to Billboard<\/em> <\/a>about the book last September, Simons offered, \u201cI guess there\u2019s no end date, but we are nearer to the end of The Chemical Brothers than we are the beginning\u2026 It has been good to reflect and remember some history. I guess you\u2019ve got to do it before you start forgetting everything, and I\u2019ve got a really good memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe remembers, like, every small gig above a barber shop we ever did,\u201d added Rowlands. \u201cThen someone would produce a photograph of it and I\u2019d be like, \u2018Oh, gotcha. Maybe we did do that\u2026\u2019 But one of the things about our band is, we don\u2019t like stopping and reflecting. I always want to move on to the next thing. This book really felt like stopping and reflecting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSee exclusive images from the book below. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cEarly on, Oasis was accepted as part of that culture,\u201d Noel Gallagher says in the book. \u201cMixmag<\/em> gave Definitely Maybe <\/em>full marks and an incredible review when it came out. When I picked up the guitar and started to write again, the inclusiveness of the lyrics in house music showed up in my songs and became a big part of it. A song like \u2018Live Forever\u2019 would never have existed and wouldn\u2019t have been called that before acid house. It would have been melancholy. The euphoria of acid house was so engrained in me, I was so into it and what I loved about it was the inclusivity. Songs were about us, they weren\u2019t personal, they were about the collective. I adopted that and put it into my music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cThere were a few electronic bands playing live in the early nineties,\u201d Simons says of the group\u2019s early days. \u201cWe\u2019d gone to see Kraftwerk when we were at university in 1991 and Tom had been in [prior dance act] Ariel, so we knew it was something that could happen, but initially we just DJed. We got offered to do [the club night] Sabresonic very early on; we\u2019d only done a handful of remixes and [Chemical Brothers EP] Fourteenth Century Sky<\/em> was just out. From the very start, we knew we didn\u2019t want to be in the spotlight on stage. We decided that we wanted to have visuals projected right on top of us. And lots of strobes. That ethos has been the same for every gig we\u2019ve played in the 30-odd years since.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cUltimately, I think The Chemical Brothers have a great predilection for exploration,\u201d says Beck, who worked with the duo on 2015\u2019s \u201cWide Open\u201d and 2023\u2019s \u201cSkipping Like a Stone.\u201d \u201cTheir records always seem to take you to different places. They kind of sit in an unusual place between different eras of electronic music and DJ culture. It\u2019s like they have one foot in multiple decades at the same time in a way that is utterly unique among their peers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201c[1997 sophomore album] Dig Your Own Hole <\/em>was us giving free rein to all of the different influences that were feeding into us from all around the world,\u201d says Simons. \u201cIt was the most extreme expression of that, one where you could have a track like \u2018It Doesn\u2019t Matter\u2019 sitting alongside \u2018The Private Psychedelic Reel\u2019. They\u2019re completely different forms of music but they each evolved from everything that was channelled in, that fed into the making of Dig Your Own Hole<\/em>. For us, our sound was entirely natural. It wasn\u2019t something we sat down and pondered,\u00a0tried to perfect. We had no intention of making a pure electronic dance record; we always wanted all of those external forces to be reflected.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Spanning 35 years of the duo’s history, ‘Paused In Cosmic Reflection’ is out today (May 7).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623502,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-Paused-Cosmic-billboard-1240.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/musicsynclicense\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}