Tate Modern [Britain's national museum of international modern art] invited The Chemical Brothers to walk around the gallery and find a work of art that would inspire them to write a track. It was Jacob Epstein's Torso in Metal from 'The Rock Drill' that grabbed their attention.
It's a menacing sculpture made out of bronze. The Chemical Brothers said that they wanted to 'capture the latent feeling of force that the figure has.'
The result was their track, The Rock Drill, which opened the groundbreaking Tate Tracks series.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/tatetracks/chemical-brothers_epstein.shtm
Been trying to find this for years!!! Heard it in the Tate on the headphone, wicked moody track
Donnellyalec 3 months ago
@hepaj and fuckyeah i saw/heard it there in 2 months after the tracks "installation"
hepaj 8 months ago
its great that you added the "full story"
hepaj 8 months ago
Wow
pbk212 8 months ago
Awesome track!
faceyfaceface 9 months ago
First comment, not much to say other than I am starting to like The Chemical Brothers.
theone4224 11 months ago