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When Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons decided to supplement their DJ careers by turning their bedrooms into recording studios, they pioneered a style of music remarkable for its lack of energy-loss from the dance floor to the radio.
Their albums are a mix of deep bomb-studded beats, percussive breakdowns and effects borrowed from a host of sources. They proved that good dance music could also be appealing to seasoned rock fans.
Growing up Rowlands and Simons grooved to music ranging from the Smiths and Jesus & Mary Chain to Kraftwerk and Public Enemy. They met while taking the same history course at Manchester University, where they began sampling the city's vibrant nightclub music. The new album is just fantastic, I love the sound and the energy and it gets me dancing (if you can call it that).