Chicane — Far from the maddening crowds. Story behind the superb Balearic album

At first, there were two of them. Leo Elstobb (Leo Zero) studied with Nick in an art college and after graduation both worked in their profession and saved up to get their own studios. Leo was doing remixes and designing leaflets for clubs, musical shops and amateur magazines; Nick commuted every day from London to Buckinghamshire where the office of the design company was. It wasn’t exactly to their liking and, as Nick later told, one day he reached boiling point.
He then thought “Life is a chain of risks”, and in the mid-nineties he founded his own musical label, which later released his single with Leo Right here, Right now, very