Vinyl Record

The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust

The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust on 2LP vinyl. A 1995 Electronic record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

2LP · Electronic · 1995

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1995 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Electronic shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Exit Planet Dust is The Chemical Brothers' 1995 debut album, released after Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons had moved from the Dust Brothers name into the identity that would define them. It is a debut with momentum already built in: a record coming out of DJ sets, club pressure and a British dance culture where breaks, acid, hip-hop samples and psychedelic noise were being welded into something heavier than polite electronica. Leave Home announces the mission with the famous promise that the brothers are going to work it out; In Dust We Trust, Song to the Siren, Three Little Birdies Down Beats and Chemical Beats keep turning loops into physical events; Life Is Sweet brings Tim Burgess into the picture and gives the album a more song-facing doorway. Heard after Dig Your Own Hole, it can sound like the fuse before the explosion, but that undersells its force. Exit Planet Dust is already confident, grimy and communal, a record that understands the dance floor as both laboratory and impact zone.

Exit Planet Dust matters because it establishes the Chemical Brothers vocabulary before big beat became a mainstream tag. The album connects club culture, hip-hop break science and psychedelic noise into the foundation for one of the most important electronic acts of the 1990s.

For collectors, Exit Planet Dust is the origin point: the Leave Home and Chemical Beats album, and the record that sets up the breakthrough of Dig Your Own Hole. Its appeal is historical and musical, especially for anyone tracing British electronic music's mid-1990s crossover path.

Raw big beat and breakbeat electronica with acid lines, heavy drums, dusty samples, psychedelic noise, club-set momentum, guest vocal colour and a gritty pre-crossover charge.

Recommended for: Collectors starting a Chemical Brothers vinyl run at the debut; Listeners interested in mid-1990s British electronic crossover; Fans of Leave Home, Chemical Beats, Song to the Siren and Life Is Sweet.

When was Exit Planet Dust released? Exit Planet Dust was released in 1995 as The Chemical Brothers' debut studio album. Which tracks define Exit Planet Dust? Leave Home, Chemical Beats, Song to the Siren and Life Is Sweet are central to the album's identity. Why is Exit Planet Dust important? It established the duo's breakbeat-heavy sound and set the stage for the bigger 1997 breakthrough of Dig Your Own Hole.