Recording
The album's recording began in August 1994 and concluded in November. Tom Rowlands stated in 2002 that they "stayed up for three weeks making it". One song from the sessions, "Leave Home", was first released in late 1994 on the duo's mix album, NME Xmas Dust Up, released as a covermount cassette tape in an issue of the NME. The first six tracks on Exit Planet Dust are continious, making a medley. Of these six tracks include "Leave Home" and edits of the duo's previous songs "Chemical Beats" and their first track "Song to the Siren" (recorded live on the album).
The duo became resident DJs at the small, but hugely influential Heavenly Sunday Social Club at the Albany pub in London's Great Portland Street at this point. The likes of Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, James Dean Bradfield, and Tim Burgess were regular visitors. The Dust Brothers (as they were at the time) were subsequently asked to remix tracks by Manic Street Preachers and The Charlatans. Their remixes of plus Primal Scream's "Jailbird" and The Prodigy's "Voodoo People" received television exposure, being playlisted by MTV Europe's "The Party Zone" in 1995.
The album was finished by 1995 and released on Junior Boy's Own, in conjunction with The Chemical Brothers' own independent leg of that label, Freestyle Dust, and Virgin Records, who later replaced Junior Boy's Own as the band's head label. The duo, however, had to change their name to The Chemical Brothers after the US Dust Brothers had threatened to sue them if they refused to. The Chemical Brothers name came from the duo's track "Chemical Beats". The name change inspired the name of the album.
The album was released in the UK in June 1995. Shortly before its release, Ed Simons said to Muzik Magazine that "nobody from the dance world has come up with an album to reflect this times. Why is that? Why is it left to a group like Oasis to express the way that young people want to go out and get battered every weekend? That's what The Chemical Brothers are about".
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