Dig Your Own Hole

Enormous drums turn psychedelic on Dig Your Own Hole. 'Block Rockin' Beats' and 'Setting Sun' supply the impact, while 'The Private Psychedelic Reel' shows how far the Chemical Brothers can stretch that force into something stranger and more expansive. Some surfaces have dated; the scale still feels reckless.

The genre's one indisputable masterpiece. Block Rockin' Beats at the front, Noel Gallagher in the middle, and an ending that abandons the format entirely for nine minutes of sitar and choir. Constructed rather than compiled, which almost nothing else here is.