"Midnight Madness" is a song by English

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

duo

The Chemical Brothers The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo formed by Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons in Manchester in 1989. They were pioneers (along with the Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, the Crystal Method, and other acts) in bringing the big beat genre t ...

, taken from their second

greatest hits album A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be crea ...

Brotherhood Brotherhood or The Brotherhood may refer to: Family, relationships, and organizations * Fraternity (philosophy) or brotherhood, an ethical relationship between people, which is based on love and solidarity * Fraternity or brotherhood, a mal ...

''. It was released on 3 August 2008 as a digital download in the UK, followed by a release in the US on 19 August 2008. The song is a shorter version of "

Electronic Battle Weapon 10 "Electronic Battle Weapon" is a series of promotional records by The Chemical Brothers made for DJs to test in clubs. The songs have been used as tracks in several albums as well as B-sides The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phon ...

", which was released shortly before. It is featured in the sports game ''

Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 ''Pro Evolution Soccer 2010'' (officially abbreviated as ''PES 2010'' and known in Asia as ''World Soccer: Winning Eleven 2010'') is the ninth football video game in the ''Pro Evolution Soccer'' series. The game was developed and published by K ...

'' and in the racing game '' Midnight Club: Los Angeles''.

Music videos

The video is set in a back alley and warehouse in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. It begins with a goblin (played mainly by

Daniel Ilabaca Daniel Marcus Ilabaca (born 23 January 1988) is a freerunner and traceur from Moreton, Merseyside, England. He along with Ryan Doyle, is the founder of the World Freerunning and Parkour Federation. Personal life Ilabaca was born on 23 Januar ...

), who jumps out of a wheelie-bin, and starts dancing. His dancing takes him out of the alley and up onto the nearby rooftops, then into a theatre. The goblin begins breakdancing (now played by Pockemon crew breakdancer,

Lilou Lilou is a French female given name. It is rising in popularity in France, where it is ranked in the top 50 names given to baby girls. It is sometimes considered a diminutive of the name Lily or a combination of the names Lily and Louise. It may ...

) on the stage. He exits, jumps onto a police car, and rides it back to the dumpster, when he jumps in moments before a man walks into the alley and dumps a bag of trash into the dumpster. The second version shows

Google Earth Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and geog ...

, zooming into little dots that have

logo. They show videos of people around the world dancing to "Midnight Madness".

had a contest off their website in 2008 to post homemade videos for the music video, leading up to the release of ''

''.

Track listing

# "Midnight Madness" – 5:13 # "Midnight Madness" – 8:10 # "Midnight Madness" – 4:11 # "Midnight Madness" – 3:35

Chart performance

The song debuted on the

UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart (currently titled Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-s ...

on 10 August 2008, and climbed to its peak of number 80 two weeks later.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Midnight Madness (The Chemical Brothers Song) 2008 singles 2008 songs The Chemical Brothers songs Astralwerks singles Songs written by Tom Rowlands Songs written by Ed Simons