Labels:text | screenshot | black | black and white | font | document OCR: from hip-hop-especially old schoolers like Afrik Bambaata (in fact, The Chemical Brothers were s ing Bambaata's praises to New Music Express ju few weeks ago). You can clearly hear Af influence on "Block Rockin' Beats," the album's head-spinning opening track. song starts with a twid dly bass riff, and ic launches unexpectedly into some apoca hip-hop laced with Schooly D samples. V- as close The Chemicals have come to ac ing pure funk-something all those "Loops of Fu ilt never did. "Elektro Bank," a psychedelic rave-up around the mind-boggling rap of Keith Murray (l seen in the dopey hit "The Most Beautifullest Th In The World") is equally good.