“Leave Home” by The Chemical Brothers

"Leave Home" was the first single from Exit Planet Dust, the Chemical Brothers' debut album, and Virgin sent it out in June 1995. But it had already surfaced on NME Xmas Dust Up, the duo's first mix album, stuck to the cover of the paper's Christmas 1994 issue back when they still called themselves the Dust Brothers.

The duo produced it themselves, with Steve Dub engineering and Segs Jennings on bass guitar, and the writing credit is shared by Tom Rowlands, Ed Simons and Blake Baxter. That big beat battering reached 17 on the UK singles chart and topped the dance chart, Melody Maker likened it to a machine gun spraying without much aim, and its vocal hook later named their 1998 mix album. Films and games kept calling for years, from Wipeout 2097 to High Fidelity.

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