Studio album no. 126 June 1995Atomic number 4
Exit Planet Dust
Ground #C0B6BAInk 1 #292326Ink 2 #5A372FAccent #5A372FPlate colours (taken from the artwork)
Contrast body 10.6:1 heading 7.8:1
Pulse 123.4 BPM (measured)
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The video embedded on the official site1 Open on YouTube
Record
- Released
- 26 June 19953
- Label
- Junior Boy's Own3
- Formats
- CD, CS, LP3
- Peak positions
- UK9AUS—AUT—BEL49FRA—IRL—NLD77NZ42SWI—US—3
- Certifications
- BPI: Platinum; ARIA: Gold3
- Guest on the album
- Beth Orton (Alive Alone)4
- Notes
- Recorded August 1993 to November 1994; the title refers to the change of name from the Dust Brothers5
- Singles from the album
- Leave Home, Life Is Sweet3
Tracklist
Music
Not measured for whole albums; see each track page.
Technology
Context
Testimony
Reviews
“big on bombast, replete with screeching guitar samples and lots of sirens and screaming divas”
“brash, raw, rule-bending gear made by open-minded music fans, for open-minded music fans”
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The "Dust" in the title is the name they left behind.
Recorded between August 1993 and November 1994 and released on 26 June 1995, their debut album takes its title from the change of name from the Dust Brothers. It reached No. 9 in the UK.53
Of its eleven tracks, only two, both near the end, have guest singers: Tim Burgess on "Life Is Sweet", and Beth Orton on the closing "Alive Alone".894
As a DJ, I always hesitate over where to put the songs with vocals. Early on, they widen the way in; late, they become a reward for those who have stayed. I take this running order as the second kind.
There was a time when the two ran a club night with Heavenly in the basement of the Albany, a pub in London. It lasted just over three months.10
In 2025, the official site celebrated the album's thirtieth anniversary.11 Three months of nights; thirty years of a record.
Translated from the Japanese original.
Afterwards
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- The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: Life Is Sweet (video)”
- The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: Exit Planet Dust (release page)”
- Wikipedia, “The Chemical Brothers discography”
- National Album Day, “The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust”
- Wikipedia, “Exit Planet Dust”
- AllMusic, “AllMusic: Exit Planet Dust review”
- NME, “NME: How The Chemical Brothers revitalised UK dance with Exit Planet Dust (retrospective)”
- Music Direct, “The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust”
- Trouser Press, “Chemical Brothers”
- Clash, “10 Things You Never Knew About… The Chemical Brothers”
- The Chemical Brothers, “Celebrate 30 Years of "Exit Planet Dust"”