Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future (Coming March 18, 2016)

I really couldn't imagine a radio edit for "If Rah" due to the pace of the build but this works surprisingly well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbphaKMepqY

I love how it just gets into it from the start. The first 30 seconds of that tune loop around in my head a lot.

Oh shit, I'm just now listening to this album and I'm properly gobsmacked.

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OTM

I really really enjoy the entire record, but 'If Rah' and 'Motorhome' are my favourites, simply because I love how both tracks develop.

OTM

― ¶ (DJP), Sunday, December 18, 2016 5:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Every Underworld album has at least one song that I find indispensable and will play on endless repeat at the drop of a hat; "If Rah" is that song from this album.

Also at one point I had my sons singing the "luna luna luna luna" part almost unprompted.

Hehe, that's awesome!

big thing about "If Rah" is that it just bangs right out of the box, as though the usual slowbuild/intro was just lopped off. good decision IMO.

and then it builds on top of that bang to become a bangernaut

I regret almost every single facet of my previous post

just saw this was nominated for a Grammy too. I'm guessing it's going to lose to Jean Michel Jarre but it's cool to see them (finally) get some recognition, it's about as overdue as Aphex Twin's was

(and yeah I know, fuck the Grammies)

wait is he saying "shoot the stars, pizza bread" at 0:56?

I used to hear "beads of prayer", but yeah now it's "pizza bread"

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Beckinsale was great in this but I was peeved that they never revealed who Barbara was (the werewolf, maybe).

$21.78 incl shipping to get that sent to the US, no thanks

You can hear Eventually But 2h25m into this Lauren Laverne show:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c295c

Also a new track called 'I Remember' at 1h55m when Karl sat in for Gilles Peterson last week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08b2dm2

man I would totally not mind if they released an entire album that sounded like "Motorhome"

what if as a concept they made that album and it only was played in a motorhome. you get on it, and it's just driving around places while you listen to the album

Breaking And Entering soundtrack is one of the best things they've ever done. Beautiful music.

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I'm just now getting around to the DJ Koze mix of "I Exhale" and I don't know if it's right place, right time or I'm just in a MOOD but srsly at this very moment this is the best fucking thing in the world

wait there's a what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYSUltr5R7Y

https://soundcloud.com/underworld/i-exhale-dj-koze-remix

xp: lol jinx

lol at the chanty chorus sounding like a group of background singers chiming in

also loving herbert's dub of "if rah"

luna luna luna luna....YEAH!

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in love with

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Everything DJ Koze touches turns to gold.

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― nomar, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 2:35 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Can't get into this on the whole, but Motorhome is lovely, and a bit... Beatlesy?

I don't know about Beatlesy, but I really love how that track develops.

So, the NYT has an interview up with a dude named Jad Abumrad. I'd never heard of him before, but apparently he's a big deal in US media circles because of something called 'Radiolab'.
The following exchange caught on my attention:

What were you listening to when you started at Oberlin?
Bad techno. My musical taste goes high and low. I was into, like, Underworld’s “Rez.” It’s like the best techno song ever made, still. It’s horrible music, but legitimately an amazing song.

Can anyone parse this strange statement for me?

Musical self-loathing snobbery?

where can I pillory this man

was under the impression from earlier in this thread that they were doing more straightforward sets these days but they're doing a facebook livestream right now from amsterdam and it feels basically as improvisational as everything everything—already heard radically different versions of "between stars" and "bruce lee" feeding into each other

maybe not this thread actually, but one of them

Watch here:

https://www.facebook.com/underworldlive/videos/10155046373457849/?hc_ref=ARTuScL5mUjkKV5upwnP2P_4ZibcCyBufZ_Z964XehV_THM2Yq-fU2FuT_47HZbquHk

(They have basically done straightforward track pause track pause track sets for quite a few years tho. Would be great if they go back to the improv continuous mix days)

I would be delighted to know that Underworld are a great live act again! Someone on the Underworld forum said they were recording the set, hope it ends up somewhere accessible.