I remember in high school I was really naive about techno and therefore I hated it. I think it was Freud who said "those things which we don't understand, are those things that we think totally suck." I believe it was mostly the fault of those Dr. Seuss hat-wearing, raver douche-bags skipping around all hopped-up on X. Whichever the case, it wasn't until a few years later that I finally came around. I found that getting crazy on the cheese wiz enabled my brain to concentrate deeply enough to comprehend my calculus homework.

On Push the Button, The Chemical Brothers have served up a platter of beats that are good, solid, and ultra-flamboyant. It's definitely more refined and less bombastic than 2002's Come With Us, (which was a fukking badass piece of work) still, Button is plenty of fun nevertheless.

"Galvanize" (the opener and first single) is haunted with the ghost of techno past and is that Q-Tip I hear? This six minute anthem reigns supreme and the rest of the tracks bow to it's royal kickassitude. On "Come Inside" the main looping lyric is "Would you like to come lay down, would you like to come inside?" Great lyric I suppose, but I wouldn't recommend it as a pick-up line - unless of course, you enjoy a good knee to the groin.

Track number seven "Left Right" is way too gangsta for my techno tastes. Anwar (I think it is) talks about "being a soldier" and "I thought I told-ya" which borrows a bit too liberally from Master P. and throws a bit of a wet blanket on the proceedings. Still and all, I've got to hand out the props to the Big Beat masters Rowlands and Simons. They've once again conjured up some dangerously intoxicating, cock-blockin' beats. I highly recommend this record for the soundtrack of your next get together. Every time I press the button and my stereo starts bumping the shit out of my room the chicks start filing in. Now if I could just get them to lay down and succumb to my skills, I'd be well on my way to becoming a Mac Daddy.