Chemical Brothers – The Private Psychedelic Reel (live)

Friday August 27, 2010 · By

In honor of the Brother’s show tomorrow in Oakland, ELVAD brings you a live version of their masterwork.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever gotten into how the live Chemical Brothers show changed my life, but it did. There is a clear break that occured on November 13, 1997. Before that show, I was more into metal and just dabbling with electronic. After that show, my experimentation with electronic music became an obsession that has lasted to this day. The complex sounds layered with the overstimulating visuals, the nonstop assault on all your senses, the possibilities of it all got me hooked.

This track in particular, the last song of the last encore, with its build-ups and break-downs, its blinking eyeballs and dancing stained glass, its depth and its breadth… it must have fried something in my brain. I was high for days. I think these clowns were a later addition, which was probably for the best… I might have gone into seizures or something.

I wonder if it will have the same effect now that I’m old…

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