Whereas other breakbeat, techno and electronica brethren have long since settled for complacent, uninspired rehashings of their own work and that of others, now that the more than a decade-old genre boom went stateside, the Chemical Brothers have strived to remain (and often succeeded in remaining) fresh and innovative. On their latest release, the underwhelming Push the Button, they return to a technique last explored, to far greater success, on 1997
