Chemical Brothers and the big beat revolution

The Chemical Brothers were at the forefront of the big beat movement.

Twenty-five years ago this week, the Chemical Brothers released Exit Planet Dust, an album that helped push dance music into the mainstream, writes Ed Power

At around 8pm on June 1 1996, at the old Point Depot in Dublin, two hunched young men with unimpressive haircuts shuffled into the spotlight. Stooped over complicated-looking banks of equipment, for the next 70 or so minutes they refused to smile or indeed show any emotion whatsoever. Their music, though, had plenty to get off its chest.