[2] The Chemical Brothers, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, started to DJ in 1992 playing hip hop, techno, and house.
Rowlands and Simons called themselves "The Dust Brothers", after the US production duo famous for their work with The Beastie Boys.
After a while, they began to run out of suitable instrumental hip hop tracks to use, so they started to make their own.
Using a Hitachi hi-fi system, a computer, a sampler, and a keyboard, they recorded "Song to the Siren", which sampled the Dead Can Dance track "Song to Sophia" and parts of Meat Beat Manifesto tracks alongside others.
Though the 4:49 version has never been released on a Chemical Brothers CD, it appears on JBO: A Perspective 1988–1998, a compilation of material mostly from the Junior Boy's Own label.