Lee Brackstone, Writer at White Rabbit, has acquired World All Language rights for Paused in Cosmic Reflection by The Chemical Brothers with Robin Turner, from Natalie Galustian at Greyhound Literary and Fleet River Administration.

Paused in Cosmic Reflection is a kaleidoscopic historical past of the band and the intoxicating world they’ve created in their very own phrases, with contributions from intimate mates and collaborators similar to Steve Dub, Adam Smith (the architect of their hallucinogenic stay reveals alongside Marcus Lyall), designer Kate Gibb and lots of different voices. The e book is absolutely illustrated with pictures and design work from The Chemical Brothers’ archives and has been designed by Paul Kelly (Fender: The Golden Age), with a bespoke cowl designed by Kate Gibb.Paused in Cosmic Reflection will publish on 26^thOctober 2023.

The Chemical Brothers are unquestionably one of many best digital music acts on the earth right this moment. A duo consisting of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, they emerged within the early Nineties within the afterglow of the Manchester acid home scene. By 1995 they’d made the leap from the underground and their now legendarily influential residency on the Heavenly Social into the mainstream, on the level the place dance music grew to become an unstoppable world motion, with the million-selling success of their debut album, Exit Planet Mud. The Chemical Brothers’ second album, Dig Your Personal Gap, went stratospheric in 1997 they usually have since collectively achieved half a dozen No.1 albums, headlined Glastonbury, Fuji Rock and Coachella quite a few occasions, and received six Grammy Awards. They’ve collaborated with a number of internationally well-known artists from Noel Gallagher to Beck, Beth Orton, Aurora and Wayne Coyne.

Authors Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons mentioned:‘Robin has been a part of our prolonged household since 1994, turning as much as our early DJ units. Since then, he’s by no means left the dance flooring, whether or not that’s in a packed pub basement or out entrance in a pageant crowd, regardless of the climate, from the Pyramid Stage to Fuji Rock and all factors in between.

‘When he got here to us a few years again with the thought of a e book with an incredible title that might be a part of the dots between us and lots of the unbelievable musical and visible collaborators we’ve labored with through the years, it made whole sense. He wished to inform the tales of the golf equipment we began out in, of how songs grew from germs of concepts into music heard all all over the world, of the gigs which have grown in scale 12 months on 12 months, of our favorite movies and the entire stay visuals that we’re so extremely happy with.

‘Paused in Cosmic Reflection tells all these tales and extra. It’s an open door into our world that you just’re invited to enter. Include us.’

Robin Turner mentioned: ‘Having labored with Tom and Ed for many of their thirty years, I had some small concept of how issues labored behind the scenes however was curious to know extra. I’d written sleeve notes and bios for them, however they solely scratched the floor of what made the band tick. I used to be left questioning the way it should really feel to make information with artists which have influenced your individual music – and for these information to then stand shoulder to shoulder with a few of the finest work these artists have made. How does it really feel to carve magnificence out of noise and chaos? And the way does it really feel to take tens of 1000’s of individuals by yourself journey at a gig, to bend their minds with sound and movie like no different band round in trendy occasions?

‘So I requested them in the event that they wished to delve deeper into their story for a e book. That meant going again to their early days in Manchester earlier than speaking to as lots of the band’s collaborators as doable. And it meant spending numerous hours with Tom and Ed speaking not solely in regards to the course of of constructing music, however what that magic looks like from their aspect.

‘Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the story of two finest mates who rapidly went from DJing collectively in pub basements to shifting the course of recent digital music, in their very own phrases (and people of thirty-plus mates and collaborators) and within the beautiful, mind-bending imagery they’ve been related to because the begin.’

Writer Lee Brackstone mentioned: ‘Since my college years in Manchester within the early nineties, The Chemical Brothers have been the fixed soundtrack to my life and lots of an evening of psychedelic epiphanies. This isn’t solely the story of a band whose catalogue belongs in the identical firm because the giants of kosmische music, but additionally a a lot greater narrative; that of how rave and acid home ambushed the mainstream and outlined the sound of the twenty-first century.This can be a visually magnificent and enlightening journey into the center of the world of two musicians, whose wildly catholic tastes and abilities proceed to yield irresistible music and one of the crucial thrilling stay reveals on the planet three a long time into their life as a band. It is without doubt one of the largest and most bold books to emerge from White Rabbit to date and this can be a very proud second.’