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It's time to take a break. Grab your headphones and let's go on an audio adventure for eight minutes and forty seconds. One of many of the easily missed masterpieces from @chembros (and one of my all time favourites).
If you're thinking "that's a pretty amazing album cover", you're right. It's by the wonderful Kate Gibb, a London-based silkscreen artist that defined the visual language that made Surrender such a strange yet familiar universe. https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/meet-kate-gibb-the-artist-behind-the-chemical-brothers-surrender-artwork/
I love the cover so much I bought one of the lithographs when Gibb did a limited anniversary release (rediscovered recently when unpacking the studio put in storage when I moved to France). Here's Richard Young's original photo which Gibb used as source: https://www.richardyounggallery.co.uk/products/jesus-amongst-fans-olympia-music-festival-london-1976
And if the art direction doesn't pull you into a creative rabbit hole, this might. Meet the Synthi, a vintage English synthesiser as quirky as it is nearly impossible to find. And perhaps a secret weapon of the Chemical Brothers sound.
Ending this thread right: meet @Steve_Dub. Back in my music days I'd wonder "how did Steve do that" when struggling to tame a mixdown. Working with incredible engineers over a band's life is a secret weapon often ignored in the disposable digital age. https://www.lbbonline.com/news/behind-the-mixing-desk-with-record-producer-steve-dub
