Star Guitar

Drum and bass never had a more prominent representative than veteran big-beat proponents Chemical Brothers. Through the course of nearly two decades in the business, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have pioneered a musically revolutionary yet commercially viable brand of electronica that has resulted in a handful of high-charting singles and a string of number one albums. Kinetic, forceful singles like ‘Block Rockin’ Beats’, ‘Setting Sun’ and the appropriately titled ‘Loops of Fury’ became staples on mainstream dance radio and underground clubs alike, with their eardrum-shattering combination of pavement-cracking bass lines, ecstatically forceful breakbeats and raging synth patterns. Check out one of the Chemicals' more underrated singles, the ferociously percolating, insistently poppish ‘Star Guitar’, backed by an innovative, meticulously assembled, rail travelogue-themed video directed by maverick auteur Michel Gondry.