The Edge said Exit Planet Dust by The Chemical Brothers was his favourite album of 1995. The U2 guitarist, it turned out, was in a long list of admirers. The Village Voice reviewer James Hannaham compared the English electronic duo to Beethoven in terms of artistic genius. The dance maestros – Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons – whipped crowds into a frenzy and Rowlands’ brother Huw would ring his own answering machine from the floor of their shows to capture the undiluted euphoria.