Single5 June 1995Atomic number 3
Leave Home
Ground #44396BInk 1 #B0A7ADInk 2 #7C696CAccent #442F51Plate colours (taken from the artwork)
Contrast body 9.1:1 heading 4.4:1
Pulse 108 BPM (measured)
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“shuddering Shaft basslines, bruisingly distorted breakbeats and choppy wah-wah trimmings”
“comes on like a fully loaded M-60 firing on a less than selective target”
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The first single under their new name was called "Leave Home".
Released on 5 June 1995, it reached No. 17 in the UK.236 It opens with a short sample from the start of Kraftwerk's "Ohm Sweet Ohm".2
A title like that, straight after leaving the Dust Brothers name behind. Whether it was chance, I don't know. Not knowing, I still think it makes a good story.
Twenty-five years after a debut single that began with a few seconds borrowed from Kraftwerk, the Design Museum in London staged an exhibition called Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers.7
Translated from the Japanese original.
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- The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: Leave Home (release page)”
- Wikipedia, “Exit Planet Dust”
- Wikipedia, “The Chemical Brothers discography”
- NME, “NME, "Long Play" column (Leave Home review)”
- Melody Maker, “Melody Maker, Leave Home review”
- National Album Day, “The Chemical Brothers – Exit Planet Dust”
- The Guardian, “'Electronic' at the Design Museum”