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Surrender: 20th Anniversary Edition VIRGIN

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Here they go! The duo cement their status as a dance-crossover colossus.

IT’S fair to say that, in terms of mainstream cultural saturation, UK electronic dance music reached its peak between 1998 and 2000. In which case, The Chemical Brothers’ third landed squarely in the eye of the storm. Released just two years after the big-beat monolith that was Dig Your Own Hole, Surrender sold close

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