Chase & Status: Influences

Towering crossover figures between dance music and pop, Chase & Status cemented their position both by absorbing lessons of underground drum 'n' bass—frenetic jump-up like Randall & Andy C's “Feel It,” dark-hued breakbeat rollers like Origin Unknown's “Sound in Motion”—and by factoring in not only electro-pop's chilly poise (see New Order's “Blue Monday”) but also the swaggering attitudes of rappers like Clipse and rockers like Nirvana.