Chemical Brothers

Dig Your Own Hole

Dig Your Own Hole Tracks

1. Block Rockin' Beats

2. Dig Your Own Hole

3. Elektrobank

4. Piku

5. Setting Sun

6. It Doesn't Matter

7. Don't Stop The Rock

8. Get Up On It Like This

9. Lost In The K-Hole

10. Where Do I Begin

11. The Private Psychedelic Reel

Dig Your Own Hole Review

To follow up their bombastic 1995 album Exit Planet Dust, the Chemical Brothers fine-tuned their bombastic beats and produced a rock-solid pop album (pun intended). Dig Your Own Hole finds the common ground between rock & roll and techno, both in spirit and substance. Singles like "Block Rockin' Beats," "Elektrobank," and "Setting Sun" (featuring vocals by Oasis's Noel Gallagher) may lack the big hair and pomposity of rock music, but they make up for it in spades, with sampled and real guitars battling for space with sirens and distorted hip-hop drums. The album reeks of pure enthusiasm and energy, evoking a crowd-pleasing exuberance that makes Dig Your Own Hole a Back in Black for the late 1990s. Pure stadium techno. --Matthew Corwine

Dig Your Own Hole Review

Second album (1997) featuring the singles 'Block Rockin' Beats', 'Elektrobank' and 'Setting Sun' (with Oasis' Noel Gallagher on vocals), plus a new mix of 'Get Up On It Like This'. The album debuted in the top 20 of Billboard's Top 200. 11 tracks total on this Astralwerks release.

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A very good and influential big beat album

The Chemical Brothers essentially founded the big beat techno subgenre. "Dig" helped popularize the genre, and it hardly sounds dated. Of course, there's the amazing hit "Block Rockin' Beats" (still one of my favorites), and although the rest of the album isn't as infectious, the songs are still very interesting and mostly entertaining (there ARE some not-so-good tracks, however those ones still usually have some interesting qualities). Also, its historical importance definitely adds to its rating. It is, however, pretty uneven. A better way to utilize the album would be to play single tracks off it. As a fan of "big beat" myself, this album is pretty satisfying along with Fat Boy Slim's "You've Come A Long Way, Baby" and The Prodigy's "The Fat Of The Land" (I still think "Fat Of The Land" is way better than "Dig"). Recommended mostly for techno/electronica fans (though most people will love "Block Rockin' Beats").

Highlights include:
"Block Rockin' Beats"
"Dig Your Own Hole"
"Elektrobank"
"Piku"
"The Private Psychedelic Reel"
"Setting Sun" (parts of it)
"Get Up On It Like This" (to an extent)
"Lost In Their K-Hole (parts of it)
"Where Do I Begin" (mainly just the guitar part)

Posted by Anonymous, on 2006-01-01

Dig Your Own Hole Review

This album is a well worth purchase if you enjoy electronica. However, electronica has a wide range of styles ranging from your big beat and your trance and what have you. If you like to dance to beats that have steady change and like to cool off to more down-tempo things this is an album that combines all elements, a steady listen.

Posted by Anonymous, on 2005-12-27

Good but not Superb

This is The Chemical Brothers second best album after 'Come with us'. I only wish that more of the tracks would have sounded more like " Block Rockin Beats " , " It doesn't matter" and " Don't Stop the Rock " and less like " Dig your own hole" , " Setting Sun " and " The Private Psychedelic Reel" but hey its still not bad. I'd say this album was on par with their debut 'Exit Planet Dust' perhaps a tad better. I reccommend this cd to anyone that likes aggressive in your face sound and/or tripped out rock samples mixed in with big beat techno. I prefer ' Come With Us ' but I guess it comes down to personal preference.

Posted by Anonymous, on 2005-09-03

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