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Genre: Alternative / Pop / Psychedelic
Location London & Barcelona, Un
Profile Views: 75521
Last Login: 10/19/2012
Member Since 2/20/2008
Record Label Hypnote (UK & USA) Dead Bees (France) Tsunami (Spain)
Type of Label Indie
Bio
..The cult English Indie-Psychedelic band, who counted the legendary John Peel and Tony Wilson among their fans. The Chemistry Set have made their triumphant return with 2 critically acclaimed releases and a stunning live show, which encapsulates the best of old and nu psychedelia with modern day psychedelic visuals and installations.. .. .. .. **LATEST NEWS AUGUST 2011** .. The boys are in the laboratory recording demos for the follow up to "This day will never happen again". Also working on a new live show with a drummer and Manel playing bass. .. .. .. ** JANUARY 2011** .. .. .. The Chemistry Set have teamed up with New York indie label "Hypnote", that is run by David Rothblatt, who was the Director of Rough Trade America and set up and ran "Shimmy Discs" and managed The Butthole Surfers. Hypnote will be releasing "This day will never happen again" in the US and UK early this year. .. .. .. .. ** SEPTEMBER 2010** .. .. .. Our new 14 track CD "This Day Will Never Happen Again" is now available from Dead Bees records (click on the link below). In Spain it is released by Tsunami Music. The CD will be available in the UK and USA early next year .. .. ..LINK TO DEAD BEES WEBSITE.. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. **APRIL 2010** .. .. .. We are delighted to announce a partnership with "Dead Bees Records" to release the eagerly awaited new Chemistry Set record: "This Day Will Never Happen Again" in June 2010 .. .. The Chemistry Set & Dead Bees records share a similar "indie ethos" and taste in music .. .. Dead Bees is a French indie label set up in 2003 and have released indie pop/rock/psychedelic albums by up-and-coming bands from France, UK, USA, Canada and Australia .. .. Dead Bees were the first European label to work along with Bomp, The Committee to Keep Music Evil and Celluloid Dreams to bring The Brian Jonestown Massacre to European audiences .. .. Over the years, Dead Bees have worked with the following bands: THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE (us), THE BLACK ANGELS (us), THE DECEMBER SOUND (us), THE QUARTER AFTER (us) THE ASTEROID NO. 4 (us), BLITZEN TRAPPER (us), CALL ME LORETTA (fr), COBSON (fr), DAN ALFRESCO (fr), FUCK BUDDIES (fr), THE MORNING AFTER GIRLS (australia), RECIFE (fr), RICK BAIN (us), SLEEP TALKER (fr), SOLTERO (us) and many more .. .. You can read the press release and hear a sampler of the album at the link below .. .. ..LINK TO DEAD BEES WEBSITE.. .. .. .. **JANUARY 2010** .. .. .. We are on an indie compilation CD "Razzmatazz 09" with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The XX, Empire of the Sun. Released in Europe on December 15th. .. .. You can buy it for 10 euros at the link below .. .. ..LINK TO BUY RAZZMATAZZ 09.. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .."SHE'S TAKING ME DOWN - TAKEN DOWN BY THE GATO TEAM" REMIX SINGLE IS NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. The Chemistry Set follow up their stunning mini-lp, "Alchemy101" with a special extended club mix single. "She's Taking Me Down", was remixed by top European DJ "Gato" and is released on the cool Barcelona "Tsunami music" label .. .. .. Barcelona DJ "Gato" has shared the cabin and studio with Grandmaster Flash, Peter Hook, The Propellerheads, Norman Cook, The Chemical Brothers and dozens more DJ's and musicians over the past decade and a half. He has DJ'ed at all of the top festivals in Europe, including regular slots at the biggest - "Festival Internacional Benicassim" (FIB) .. .. .. The remix made its debut at the FIB in Benicassim in July) .. .. .. The single is available on CD & Mp3 at the following places and on i-Tunes......... .. .. Spain, Tsunami Music .. .. .. ..LINK TO TSUNAMI MUSIC.. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. Worldwide Mp3's (from September 28) Juno Download .. .. .. ...... .. ..The Chemistry Set & The Gato Team, She's Taking Me Down - Taken Down by The Gato Team. Available at Juno Download... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .................. .. .. .. America, CD Baby .. .. .. .......... .. .. .. England & Europe, Heyday Mail Order (they have all 3 limited edition sleeves) .. .. .. ..LINK TO HEYDAY MAIL ORDER.. .. .. .. .. ............Myspace Layouts.. - ..Myspace Editor.. - ..Image Hosting....
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.. FOR UK & USA BOOKINGS CONTACT: nothype@hypnote.com .. .. .. .. FOR EUROPEAN BOOKINGS CONTACT: daydream.booking@gmail.com .. .. .. .. FOR SPANISH BOOKINGS CONTACT: elena@grocdog.com .. .. .. <a href="http://s225.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/dmclean553/?action=view¤t=03-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd307/dmclean553/03-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. CHEMISTRY SET T-SHIRTS FOR SALE!!!! £17 INCLUDING POSTAGE. SIZES: S/M/L/XL. CLICK ON PAYPAL LINK BELOW .. .. .. .. ..LINK TO PAYPAL.. .... .. .. ...... .... .. ..Paul Lake, Lead Guitar/Bass/Keyboards/ Vocals.... .. ..David Mclean, Drums/Bass/Guitars/Keyboards/Vocals .... .. .. and we could not do it without.............. .. ..Manel Ibáñez, Producer. Guitar & Keyboards live .... .. ..DJ Gato, Remixes. MC, beats, kaosspad and nanopad live .... .. ..Jofre Bardagi, Mellotron, Piano and Hammond live .... ..Ángela Rubio, Vocals + a variety of magic live and on record .... ..Suzette de la Grace Faberge, Vocals on "Regarde Le Ciel".... .. ..VJ Matrona, Visuals and Installations .... .. ..Blanca Viñas, Photography and Design .... .. ..Valis, Tio Psicodelico .... ..
Influences
.. Surrealism.., ..Arthur Lee & Love (never forgetting Bryan Maclean's contribution!).., .. Syd Barrett.., ..Tamla Motown.., ..Link Wray.., ..Brian Wilson.., ..Ennio Morricone.., ..John Coltrane.., ..Hendrix.., ..Spaceman 3.., .. Neil Young & Crazy Horse..,.. Van Dyke Parks.., ..David Axelrod.., ..The Smiths.., .. Beats & Bleeps.., ..My Bloody Valentine.., ..The Byrds.., ..The Beatles..,..The Stones.., ..Buffalo Springfield.., ..Jack Nitzsche.., ..Factory Records .., ..Moby Grape.., ..Led Zep.., .."The Further Adventures of Charles Westover" by Del Shannon.., .. The Rain Parade.., ..Robyn Hitchcock.., plus a healthy dash of Power-Pop/New Wave.., ..La Movida.., ..Borges.., ..Eduardo Mendoza.., ..Raul Nunez.. and Spain!..
Sounds Like
.. KIND COMMENTS :) .. .. .. David Axelrod (Composer/Arranger/Songwriter/Genius!) .. .. .."Real music! music that makes you think and really listen to" .. .. .. Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets & XFM DJ) .. .. .."The Chemistry Set are a f**kin great band" .. .. .. Ian Fraser (Terrascope) .. .. .."These are no mere 60s retreads but excellent songs in their own right that betray Lake and Mclean's unerring sensibility for thoroughly cracking tunes. "She's Taking Me Down" is the pinnacle of this astonishingly good collection, but "Seeing Upside Down", "Look Into The Sky" and "If Rome Was Meant To Fall" all give it a damn good run for the gold medal. And there's any number of others that could lay claim to the title of best in class if I'm honest. .. .. It is absolutely criminal that two men this talented aren't household names and living in the lap of luxury".. .. .. David Cavanagh (Rock Critic) .. .. .. "Someone once told me that great songs have no date stamp, and (The Chemistry Set) understood perfectly" .. .. .. Jeff Perkins (Blogcritics) .. .. .. "Confirming the belief that music of this quality just doesn't date they serve up an album alive with a magical and timeless atmosphere. It shimmers, jangles, and rings within a vibrant kaleidoscope of hypnotically entrancing sound... .. Occasional Syd Barrett quirkiness, sits alongside Beatles inspired magnificence, Byrds flavoured Rickenbacker, and splashes of The Stone Roses. Having said that this can only be by The Chemistry Set who, in true alchemist tradition, have taken a sprinkling of each and mixed them together to create something quite extraordinary.".. .. .. Garwood Pickjon (Popism) .. .. "The omnipresent 12-string Rickenbacker jangle, occasional Syd-like quirk, and Beatlesque harmonies overload, will instantly grab B-bands fans' attention, but the production and dreamy vocal delivery make the whole thing contemporary enough, for it to be taken seriously enough by moderndaze kids as well. Refering to The Stone Roses would be an easy way out, but with intelligent orchestration and eclectic arrangements, I'd rather go with their Liverpudlian soulmates, Shack" .. .. .. Shindig Magazine .. .. .. "The tunes are full of dreamlike harmonies, incisive guitars and mellotron washes. The likes of "She's Taking Me Down" and "Look To The Sky" are always ambitious, inventive and highly melodic" .. .. .. Mondosonoro (Spain) .. .. "Surely the members of The Chemistry Set would not mind comparisons with the very prolific stream of pop and psychedelic rock acts that starts with the flirtations of The Beatles with the hypnotic sounds of India, explodes with The Doors and Pink Floyd, reborn with Spacemen 3 and still beating perennially with likes of The Verve and, My Bloody Valentine. .. .. But beyond psychedelia, this is primarily a pop band, a gem of a pop band, where moments of pop magic happen, one after another. Choruses of The Beach Boys, intimate moments and acoustic approach of Simon & Garfunkel, and above all genuine melodies such as the single "She's Taking Me Down ", which forces us to recognise that the return of this band, which began with the neo-psychedelic boom in the eighties should not go unnoticed" .. .. ..SoundsXP.com about "She's Taking Me Down" .. .. .."This is whimsical English psych-pop that nicks the chiming guitar riff from the Beatles' 'Taxman' (s'alright, so did the Jam). DJ Gato gives it full fuzzed up psychedelic force in its long edit (7'16") and a slightly baggy feel in the radio edit. There's also a velvety psychedelic new song 'La Logica Del Canvi', sung in Catalan. Their old psychedelia has become nu-psychedelia without losing its powerpoppy charm" .. .. .. Niklas Odin, Ettnolett Magazine (Sweden) .. .. .. "Like being taken on a rollercoaster ride back to the heady days of the late eighties, with a glance or two even further backwards but with eyes peeled firmly on the future, with both the mind and music going in all kinds of directions but being held together by a shimmering vision to reach a musical nirvana" .. .. .. Plastique Pop Mag (USA) .. .. .. "When it comes to solid gold songwriting with an in depth 1-2 Psychedelic punch, no one does it better than The Chemistry Set. Just listening to them is like a shot of transcendental bliss. Go out and discover this goldmine today!" .. .. .. Phil Mcmullen (Terrascope) .. .. 'Look To The Sky' is classic daisy-fuelled English psychedelic toy-shoppe whimsy, everything I wanted to hear of the band. 'If Rome Was Meant To Fall' and 'Seeing Upside Down' both have that Byrdsian harmony jangle down pat, then each kicks in with a lead guitar break, just like the Long Ryders used to do (bless 'em). .. .. 'She's Taking Me Down' is arguably the strongest song on here, featuring rich instrumentation, a gorgeous guitar break and a memorable riff. The most ambitious though has to be 'Silver Birch', which takes a leaf (arf!) straight out of the Zombies songbook in terms of both production and delivery. .. .. .. ............Myspace Layouts.. - ..Myspace Editor.. - ..Image Hosting....

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Bio:

The cult English Indie-Psychedelic band, who counted the legendary John Peel and Tony Wilson among their fans. The Chemistry Set have made their triumphant return with 2 critically acclaimed releases and a stunning live show, which encapsulates the best of old and nu psychedelia with modern day psychedelic visuals and installations

**LATEST NEWS JUNE 2012**

We just finished a new single for "Fruits de Mer records" that will be out in the autumn, including a cover of a Tomorrow song "Hallucinations". Continuing working on the rest of the material for the new album

**AUGUST 2011**

The boys are in the laboratory recording demos for the follow up to "This day will never happen again". Also working on a new live show with a drummer and Manel playing bass.

**FEBRUARY 2011**

The Chemistry Set have been recording a new single that will be released as a limited edition 7" vinyl single on the English 'Fruits de Mer' records in the Spring 2011.

**OCTOBER 2010**

The Chemistry Set have teamed up with New York indie label "Hypnote", that is run by David Rothblatt, who was the Director of Rough Trade America and set up and ran "Shimmy Discs" and managed The Butthole Surfers. Hypnote will be releasing "This day will never happen again" in the US and UK this winter.

** JULY 2010**

Our new 14 track CD “This Day Will Never Happen Again” is now available from Dead Bees records (click on the link below). In Spain it is released by Tsunami Music. The CD will be available in the UK and USA in September

LINK TO DEAD BEES WEBSITE

**APRIL 2010**

We are delighted to announce a partnership with "Dead Bees Records" to release the eagerly awaited new Chemistry Set record: “This Day Will Never Happen Again” in June 2010

The Chemistry Set & Dead Bees records share a similar “indie ethos” and taste in music

Dead Bees is a French indie label set up in 2003 and have released indie pop/rock/psychedelic albums by up-and-coming bands from France, UK, USA, Canada and Australia

Dead Bees were the first European label to work along with Bomp, The Committee to Keep Music Evil and Celluloid Dreams to bring The Brian Jonestown Massacre to European audiences

Over the years, Dead Bees have worked with the following bands: THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE (us), THE BLACK ANGELS (us), THE DECEMBER SOUND (us), THE QUARTER AFTER (us) THE ASTEROID NO. 4 (us), BLITZEN TRAPPER (us), CALL ME LORETTA (fr), COBSON (fr), DAN ALFRESCO (fr), FUCK BUDDIES (fr), THE MORNING AFTER GIRLS (australia), RECIFE (fr), RICK BAIN (us), SLEEP TALKER (fr), SOLTERO (us) and many more

You can read the press release and hear a sampler of the album at the link below

LINK TO DEAD BEES WEBSITE

**JANUARY 2010**

We are on an indie compilation CD "Razzmatazz 09" with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The XX, Empire of the Sun. Released in Europe on December 15th.

You can buy it for 10 euros at the link below

..LINK TO BUY RAZZMATAZZ 09..

"SHE'S TAKING ME DOWN - TAKEN DOWN BY THE GATO TEAM" REMIX SINGLE IS NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY

The Chemistry Set follow up their stunning mini-lp, “Alchemy101" with a special extended club mix single. "She's Taking Me Down", was remixed by top European DJ "Gato" and is released on the cool Barcelona “Tsunami music” label

Barcelona DJ “Gato” has shared the cabin and studio with Grandmaster Flash, Peter Hook, The Propellerheads, Norman Cook, The Chemical Brothers and dozens more DJ’s and musicians over the past decade and a half. He has DJ’ed at all of the top festivals in Europe, including regular slots at the biggest - “Festival Internacional Benicassim” (FIB)

The remix made its debut at the FIB in Benicassim in July)

The single is available on CD & Mp3 at the following places and on i-Tunes.......

Spain, Tsunami Music

..LINK TO TSUNAMI MUSIC..

Worldwide Mp3's (from September 28) Juno Download

The Chemistry Set & The Gato Team, She's Taking Me Down - Taken Down by The Gato Team. Available at Juno Download.

America, CD Baby

England & Europe, Heyday Mail Order (they have all 3 limited edition sleeves)

LINK TO HEYDAY MAIL ORDER

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CHEMISTRY SET T-SHIRTS FOR SALE!!!! £17 INCLUDING POSTAGE. SIZES: S/M/L/XL. CLICK ON PAYPAL LINK BELOW

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Paul Lake, Lead Guitar/Bass/Keyboards/ Vocals

David Mclean, Drums/Bass/Guitars/Keyboards/Vocals

and we could not do it without..........

Manel Ibáñez, Producer. Guitar & Keyboards live

DJ Gato, Remixes. MC, beats, kaosspad and nanopad live

Jofre Bardagi, Mellotron, Piano and Hammond live

Ángela Rubio, Vocals + a variety of magic live and on record

Suzette de la Grace Faberge, Vocals on "Regarde Le Ciel"

VJ Matrona, Visuals and Installations

Blanca Viñas, Photography and Design

Valis, Tio Psicodelico

Influences:

Surrealism, Arthur Lee & Love (never forgetting Bryan Maclean's contribution!), Syd Barrett, Tamla Motown, Link Wray, Brian Wilson, Ennio Morricone, John Coltrane, Hendrix, Spaceman 3, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Van Dyke Parks, David Axelrod, The Smiths, Beats & Bleeps, My Bloody Valentine, The Byrds, The Beatles,The Stones, Buffalo Springfield, Jack Nitzsche, Factory Records , Moby Grape, Led Zep, "The Further Adventures of Charles Westover" by Del Shannon, The Rain Parade, Robyn Hitchcock, plus a healthy dash of Power-Pop/New Wave, La Movida, Borges, Eduardo Mendoza, Raul Nunez and Spain!

Sounds Like:

KIND COMMENTS :)

David Axelrod (Composer/Arranger/Songwriter/Genius!)

"Real music! music that makes you think and really listen to"

Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets & XFM DJ)

"The Chemistry Set are a f**kin great band"

Ian Fraser (Terrascope)

"These are no mere 60s retreads but excellent songs in their own right that betray Lake and Mclean’s unerring sensibility for thoroughly cracking tunes. “She’s Taking Me Down” is the pinnacle of this astonishingly good collection, but “Seeing Upside Down”, “Look Into The Sky” and “If Rome Was Meant To Fall” all give it a damn good run for the gold medal. And there’s any number of others that could lay claim to the title of best in class if I’m honest.

It is absolutely criminal that two men this talented aren’t household names and living in the lap of luxury"

David Cavanagh (Rock Critic)

"Someone once told me that great songs have no date stamp, and (The Chemistry Set) understood perfectly"

Jeff Perkins (Blogcritics)

"Confirming the belief that music of this quality just doesn’t date they serve up an album alive with a magical and timeless atmosphere. It shimmers, jangles, and rings within a vibrant kaleidoscope of hypnotically entrancing sound.

Occasional Syd Barrett quirkiness, sits alongside Beatles inspired magnificence, Byrds flavoured Rickenbacker, and splashes of The Stone Roses. Having said that this can only be by The Chemistry Set who, in true alchemist tradition, have taken a sprinkling of each and mixed them together to create something quite extraordinary.”

Garwood Pickjon (Popism)

"The omnipresent 12-string Rickenbacker jangle, occasional Syd-like quirk, and Beatlesque harmonies overload, will instantly grab B-bands fans’ attention, but the production and dreamy vocal delivery make the whole thing contemporary enough, for it to be taken seriously enough by moderndaze kids as well. Refering to The Stone Roses would be an easy way out, but with intelligent orchestration and eclectic arrangements, I’d rather go with their Liverpudlian soulmates, Shack"

Shindig Magazine

"The tunes are full of dreamlike harmonies, incisive guitars and mellotron washes. The likes of "She's Taking Me Down" and "Look To The Sky" are always ambitious, inventive and highly melodic"

Mondosonoro (Spain)

"Surely the members of The Chemistry Set would not mind comparisons with the very prolific stream of pop and psychedelic rock acts that starts with the flirtations of The Beatles with the hypnotic sounds of India, explodes with The Doors and Pink Floyd, reborn with Spacemen 3 and still beating perennially with likes of The Verve and, My Bloody Valentine.

But beyond psychedelia, this is primarily a pop band, a gem of a pop band, where moments of pop magic happen, one after another. Choruses of The Beach Boys, intimate moments and acoustic approach of Simon & Garfunkel, and above all genuine melodies such as the single "She's Taking Me Down ", which forces us to recognise that the return of this band, which began with the neo-psychedelic boom in the eighties should not go unnoticed"

SoundsXP.com about "She's Taking Me Down"

"This is whimsical English psych-pop that nicks the chiming guitar riff from the Beatles’ ‘Taxman’ (s'alright, so did the Jam). DJ Gato gives it full fuzzed up psychedelic force in its long edit (7’16") and a slightly baggy feel in the radio edit. There’s also a velvety psychedelic new song ‘La Logica Del Canvi’, sung in Catalan. Their old psychedelia has become nu-psychedelia without losing its powerpoppy charm"

Niklas Odin, Ettnolett Magazine (Sweden)

"Like being taken on a rollercoaster ride back to the heady days of the late eighties, with a glance or two even further backwards but with eyes peeled firmly on the future, with both the mind and music going in all kinds of directions but being held together by a shimmering vision to reach a musical nirvana"

Plastique Pop Mag (USA)

"When it comes to solid gold songwriting with an in depth 1-2 Psychedelic punch, no one does it better than The Chemistry Set. Just listening to them is like a shot of transcendental bliss. Go out and discover this goldmine today!"

Phil Mcmullen (Terrascope)

‘Look To The Sky’ is classic daisy-fuelled English psychedelic toy-shoppe whimsy, everything I wanted to hear of the band. ‘If Rome Was Meant To Fall’ and ‘Seeing Upside Down’ both have that Byrdsian harmony jangle down pat, then each kicks in with a lead guitar break, just like the Long Ryders used to do (bless ’em).

‘She’s Taking Me Down’ is arguably the strongest song on here, featuring rich instrumentation, a gorgeous guitar break and a memorable riff. The most ambitious though has to be ‘Silver Birch’, which takes a leaf (arf!) straight out of the Zombies songbook in terms of both production and delivery.

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