Studio album no. 27 April 1997Atomic number 9
Dig Your Own Hole
Ground #000000Ink 1 #FFFFFFInk 2 #F0F0F0Accent #FFFFFFPlate colours (taken from the artwork)
Contrast body 18.6:1 heading 21.0:1
Pulse 109.4 BPM (measured)
Listen
The video embedded on the official site1 Open on YouTube
Record
- Released
- 7 April 19973
- Label
- Virgin, Freestyle Dust3
- Formats
- CD, CS, LP3
- Peak positions
- UK1AUS3AUT26BEL7FRA24IRL—NLD23NZ2SWI30US143
- Certifications
- BPI: Platinum; ARIA: Platinum; RIAA: Gold3
- Guest on the album
- Beth Orton (Where Do I Begin)4
- Notes
- Sequenced like a continuously mixed DJ set5
- Notes
- Guests Noel Gallagher and Beth Orton; Jonathan Donahue on clarinet4
- Singles from the album
- Setting Sun, Block Rockin' Beats, Elektrobank, The Private Psychedelic Reel3
Tracklist
- 1Block Rockin' Beats2
- 2Dig Your Own Hole2
- 3Elektrobank2
- 4Piku2
- 5Setting Sun2
- 6It Doesn't Matter2
- 7Don't Stop The Rock2
- 8Get Up On It Like This2
- 9Lost In The K Hole2
- 10Where Do I Begin2
- 11The Private Psychedelic Reel2
Music
Not measured for whole albums; see each track page.
Technology
Context
Testimony
Reviews
“a blindingly innovative and relentlessly propulsive album that's an exhilarating listen”
“burns the whole rock vs. techno argument into a fine, white ash”
View (DJ Naoyaman)
It's an album, but there are no gaps between the songs.
Released on 7 April 1997, it was their first UK No. 1 album and reached No. 14 in America. It was recorded at Orinoco Studios in South London.83
The running order is built like a continuously mixed DJ set: before one track ends, the next comes in.5
It is sequenced, I think, for someone who takes it all in from start to finish rather than picking out one song at a time. A DJ's album.
The guests are Noel Gallagher and Beth Orton, with Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue on clarinet.4
A manager at Astralwerks, their American label at the time, later recalled that those videos gave young Americans a glimpse of a far more interesting and inviting world and culture.5
Translated from the Japanese original.
Afterwards
Own
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- The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: Block Rockin' Beats (video)”
- The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: Dig Your Own Hole (release page)”
- Wikipedia, “The Chemical Brothers discography”
- TOWER RECORDS ONLINE, “Dig Your Own Hole”
- Recording Academy, “The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole at 25”
- AllMusic, “AllMusic: Dig Your Own Hole review”
- Rolling Stone, “Rolling Stone: Dig Your Own Hole review”
- Wikipedia, “Dig Your Own Hole”