The best No 1 records: The Chemical Brothers feat. Noel Gallagher – Setting Sun

1996: This was the sound of two parallel mid-90s trends – Britpop and breakbeats – smashed together like Tonka trucksWhat better use of Gallagher Snr's commercial clout at Oasis's apex than to take this psychedelic nervous breakdown to the very top? The Chemical Brothers would soon get there under their own steam with Block Rockin' Beats but this is a much more ragged, brutal piece of work: Tomorrow Never Knows with Satan on drums instead of Ringo, and so crazed with distortion that Noel's v...

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