The Chemical Brothers

The music of the Chemical Brothers--a pair of DJs who helped popularise the "Big Beat" electronic subgenre in the '90s--has the heft of rock, the groove of club music, allied to a spirit of experimentation that appealed across genres. Through their collaborations with rockers both massive--the Gallagher brothers of Oasis--and more left-field--Mercury Rev--Tom Rowland and Ed Simons have helped break down the walls between rock and dance music. On "Setting Sun", one of their biggest hits, the Chemical Brothers fused elements straight out of the Beatles with electronic dance music's sonic dimensions to create something powerful and timeless, groundbreaking yet accessible.

• pop
• electronic
• big beat
• 1990s
• 2000s