Belgrave Listening Group #78 - The Beatles

The Belgrave Listening Group returns with an evening tracing a line between two seismic shifts in popular music.

First, The Chemical Brothers’ Dig Your Own Hole (1996): a record that detonated into the mid-90s with what would be known as their signature sound. Built from breakbeats, distortion, and a deep love of psychedelia, it’s an album that reimagined electronic music as something physical and communal; engineered for both the body and the mind.

From there, we step back three decades to The Beatles’ Revolver (1966), a turning point not just for the band, but for recorded music itself. Restless and exploratory, Revolver dismantles the idea of what a pop album could be, tape loops, reversed sounds, close-mic intimacy, and songs that feel both immediate and otherworldly.

Heard together, these records speak across time: two groups, thirty years apart, arriving at similar questions about texture, repetition, and the possibilities of the studio as a creative space.

As ever, this is a shared listening experience: lights low, sound up, phones away. Come early, settle in, and hear these albums in full through the incredible d&b audiotechnik system!

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