There’s something instructive about the cover of Surrender. A solitary figure, arms aloft in total euphoria, captured at the 1976 Olympia Music Festival. Richard Young’s photograph, saturated in vibrant colour, presents a kind of defiant optimism that perfectly encapsulates where Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands found themselves as 1999 drew to a close. Here were two former Manchester University students who’d spent the early 90s absorbing everything from Justin Robertson’s legendary Spice nights to the Haçienda’s dying embers, now positioned at the centre of mainstream electronic music’s most successful period.
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