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British deejay-producer duo
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Freelance writer. Author of Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock; Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture and Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past, among...
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the Chemical Brothers, British deejay-producer duo who pioneered the big beat dance music genre in the 1990s. Ed Simons (b. June 9, 1970, London, England) and Tom Rowlands (b. January 11, 1971, Oxfordshire) met at Manchester University in 1989. Already fans of hip-hop, the pair quickly became avid participants in the “Madchester” rave scene, then buzzing thanks to the synergy of house music and the drug Ecstasy. Rowlands and Simons attended nightclubs such as the much ballyhooed Hacienda and illegal warehouse raves in nearby Blackburn. They started their deejay career at the small Manchester club Naked Under Leather. Relocating to ...(100 of 672 words)

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