Anyone who’s heard Chemical Brothers classics like “Block Rockin’Beats” and “Setting Sun” knows that Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons getover on breaking barriers between techno and rock. Even if the sunhas set on the electronica revolution they pioneered, the recentcompilation Singles 93-03 shows that their big beats canstill rock a living room. When we asked them to draw up a periodictable of the music that made the Chems who they are, it was liketapping into two sides of the same brain — fitting for two palswho still go check out Dylan every chance they get.
