Propellerheads / Best 1996—1998
“I immediately thought that’s good live music,” said Alex Gifford. It happened when he first heard the early breaks of The Chemical Brothers in the first half of the 90s and very soon (good fortune!) he met a drummer Will White, his younger companion, whose passion for rhythms was inherited from his jazz father.
Around 1994, the group with the bizarre name Propellerheads was formed. And their set of instruments for live performances was equally bizarre: turntables, guitar, electric organ, and drum kit. Turntables are for scratching and sampling of their favourite funky pieces; drums are played over prepared rhythms. The promoter of the duo was their mutual friend. “But there had to be a promoter—friend of ours, who said we had a gig that day and the flyers were already printed. So we had to get our asses and put together a live set and it worked—the crowd went maaaad that night!” Before recording their first EP Dive, they held more than three hundred such
