That 5 disc set is the only super expanded edition of any album Ive heard that’s actually worth listening to all the way through
― frogbs, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
yeah agreed! I mean the Second Toughest and Beaucoup Fish ones are also great but not as replayable imo
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
What a lesiurely, discursive mix, like wandering around inside the song and checking out the sconces. You wonder how many alt versions of dubnobass might be put together in total. Could they bandcamp a Rick's Dubbed Out Infants Experience or three for every album?
― stilt in the wings (sic), Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
Not just a completely essential 5- disc album but one I wish had another disc for a few more missing mixes!
― Vinnie, Sunday, 21 February 2021 10:44 (three years ago) link
this is going into my homespun "dubnobasswithmyheadman super duper deluxe" edition
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 21 February 2021 13:17 (three years ago) link
^^ mine is seven "discs," but three of them would be double CDs
(plus the two-hour "dubnobass influences" radio mix they did)
― stilt in the wings (sic), Sunday, 21 February 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
now I want to compile all of the remixes that didn't make it onto the superdeluxe, starting with the dark & long 215 thing, sic do yo you actually have one???
holy shit that radio show looks great: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04krs79
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 21 February 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
It's here: https://www.mixcloud.com/UnderworldLive/dubnobass-6mix/
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 21 February 2021 23:58 (three years ago) link
I do! And since I just dug out the folders in order to tag the "new" Cowgirl into it, how I break it down to an extent...
[1992] Lemon Interupt & Tomato 12s (9 songs, 1hr 17 - incl 2014 remasters, 2012 masters, and uncollected)[1993] Underworld 12s (4 songs, 47 min - 2014 remasters + 1 2012)dubnobasswithmyheadman [2014 Rick remaster/reMIDI]dubnoluxe: 1993 Live Jam Kyme Rddubnoluxe: Previously Unreleased Recordings 1991–1993 ++ (12 songs, 1hr 41 - disc from the box set, plus The Big Meat Show demo/mix from Anthology & Cowgirl A1804)[1994] dub nob mixes (12 songs, 2hr 13 - mix of remasters from the box and four (56 mins) left off)[1994] Saved From The Cutting Room Floor mix by the Misterons (256kbps m4a version)
― stilt in the wings (sic), Sunday, 21 February 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
xp
What abt that early DAT version of dubnobass?
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 22 February 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
Organ and Can You Feel Me are in high-quality on the Previously Unreleased disc, I have the long River Of Bass and the DAT version of Big Meat Show tagged in a three-and-a-half hour catch-all Mixes And Reworks compilation*. Everything else is the same as the final album, so it doesn't really hold up as a necessary alt-universe relisten imo.
*(that at some point I half-intend to break down into notably different mixes and "mostly the same but a different length." it's mainly a place to put things that I don't have in "As and Bangers 1997-2019" (2hr 50) or "Bs and Sidetracks 1992-2018" (2hr 24) )
― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, 22 February 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
I hope a super deluxe version of Oblivion With Bells is coming soon, I bet a 4 disc set of that stuff would be just as great
― frogbs, Monday, 22 February 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
If they didn't skip A Hundred Days Off, which would be easier to put together - one disc of B-sides / 020202 / NUXX'03, one disc of unreleased if there's anything worth pulling together, plus the Tomato PS2 soundtrack if they need to pad it out.
Certainly if they're holding off on Drift 2 until they can tour again, lockdown 2020 would have been a great time to compile Oblivion With Box, to release in lockdown 2021.
oh wait ha we did this almost two years ago
apparently much of the Sunshine soundtrack, most of the Breaking & Entering soundtrack and all (?) of Oblivion With Bells came out of the work that started as the Riverrun sessions ... easily four discs just covering November 2005 to June 2006, let alone the rest of the decade.
― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, 22 February 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
Does anyone remember a drum n' bass track called "Swing Up High" that was offered up for download on underworldlive.com a decade or so ago? It fuckin' ruled!!― frogbs, Friday, June 14, 2019 2:29 PM
― frogbs, Friday, June 14, 2019 2:29 PM
there were two versions of this given away, from circa May 2004, and they played a handful of demos while guest-hosting for Peel in October, so there's enough to scrape a barrel for a three-disc AHDO, eg:
DISC 2: B-SIDES
8 Ball (The Beach OST 2000) 8:55020202 (Old Mix) 6:04Tiny Clicks 2:16Headset 5:59Like A Swimmer 5:26Ansum 16:17Born Slippy Nuxx (Rick's 2003 Down Ambient Mix) 4:54020202 (New Mix) 6:35Twist (extended Ansum version) 8:46 DISC 3: MIXES & MISC Dinosaur Adventure 3D (R.C.M. Version) 8:09Two Months Off (King Unique Sunspots - Vocal Mix) 8:17the girl (Mr & Mrs Christmas) 1:32Swing Up High (Version 1) 5:20dinner at rods (Mr & Mrs Christmas) 3:36Dinosaur Adventure 3D (Funk D'void Vocal Remix) 7:53choppo (Mr & Mrs Christmas) 2:31Two Months Off (John Ciafone Vocal Remix) 7:32the melon man (Mr & Mrs Christmas) 2:01Born Slippy Nuxx (Rick's 2003 12" Mix) 7:02belfort novatel kipper (Mr & Mrs Christmas) 1:00Swing Up High (Radical Version) 7:08
though tbh two discs is probably enough
― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, 22 February 2021 03:55 (three years ago) link
well I guess "h" tags don't work with carriage returns?
― stilt in the wings (sic), Monday, 22 February 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
this "influences" mix is great, thanks sic!
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Monday, 22 February 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
https://store.underworldlive.com/collections/cowgirl-limited-drop/products/cowgirl-limited-drop-cowgirl-limited-edition-vinyl-2021-12
― groovypanda, Friday, 26 February 2021 11:46 (three years ago) link
oh damn it's *that* performance of Rez/Cowgirl, would love to have that but idk if I can justify paying that much
― frogbs, Friday, 26 February 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
Free Download of Two Months Off from Glastonbury 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHbB8aSZtMI
― groovypanda, Thursday, 20 May 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
A heartbreaking little memoir from Karl here: https://www.thesocial.com/imposter-karl-hyde-underworld/
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
damn. he's a hell of a writer.
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
£100 for the Beach Towel bundle 😮
https://store.underworldlive.com/collections/two-months-off-limited-drop
― groovypanda, Thursday, 27 May 2021 09:37 (two years ago) link
the Glastonbury Two Months Off is now out as a single with this unreleased early version as a b-side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-phNFssMzSQ
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
The imposter-karl-hyde-underworld/ writing brought a tear to my eye. He *can* write. The beach towel made me think "Hmm".
― djh, Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
i love the beach towel. tempted to order it but the price is ridiculous. i've ordered the 12" and I think that's probably all I 'need' to have.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 27 May 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
All "art" has WTF moments. The beach towel is one of Underworld's. Clearly trying to cash in on the (attempted) re-opening of society this summer.
That said, they are on the Mt. Rushmore of modern electronic music (with - if I continue this silly concept - Autechre, Bjork, and Kraftwerk).
Their more recent work with The Necks cemented their "still relevant" status for me. I'd go so far as to call it their best-ever collaboration.
― co11ective, Thursday, 27 May 2021 23:43 (two years ago) link
Nobody makes money from records anymore and touring has been on hold for over a year. That leaves merch, and while an expensive beach towel is not my thing, *somebody's* gonna buy one.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 28 May 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
Two Months Off still sounds pretty good! Juanita Boxill's spoken word in the original version really grounded that song I thought
― Dan S, Friday, 28 May 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
so is the AHDO super deluxe coming
― frogbs, Friday, 28 May 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link
nothing wrong with selling a fucking beach towel, especially one that says "two months off" in a kewl font, sheesh. i'd think about getting it if it were sold separately lol.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 28 May 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
for real the towel is the most attractive thing here. I bought the Cowgirl single but I'm not going in on this.xps They've got to be making a little bit from putting a couple of archival bits on a 20 quid 12" cmon.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 28 May 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
loved a bit of underworld in the late nineties, seen them a bunch of times, came across this 'chillout' track by them last year and was surprised and taken with the sound, guess I missed a lot of their catalogue that wasn't shouty, moody percussive brit-technounderworld - sola systemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciKeiYbfy4
― Swanswans, Saturday, 29 May 2021 11:04 (two years ago) link
I made a playlist of the chiller side of UW, but not all chillout. Really just the stuff that's less played but still incredible. I called it Underworld Preferred and you can find it on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2e1kCLXPU4cypdYShxeLMC?si=x1qSVDcsSKaQ74cvyKFHxg
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 29 May 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
If you're interested in digging further into the various sides of Underworld, our poll results from last year might be fun. Here's the whole thread with rollout and discussion, or this post has youtube playlists with various versions of the winning tracks.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 29 May 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
hey, great, will give these lists a listen
― Swanswans, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
the band put together a bunch of playlists of various stylistic sides of the band a few years ago - here's the one for the ambient/chillout stuff like "sola sistim": https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WoMpAYOApgQauW5uwTJON
― ufo, Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
listening to brotherslovedub spotify list, nice to reacquaint myself with some of the chiller stuff from beaucoup fish and second toughest....there a strong Alex patteson/the orb feeling to a few of these I hadn't heard, I really like the dubbed out stuff like 'river of bass', can't really think of another 'techno' outfit that manages to integrate a lyricist/vocals so successfully as a texture and on so many flavours of beats and songs
― Swanswans, Saturday, 5 June 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
The single version of Dune into Custard Speedtalk on a loop as I one-two-three-four let it all go forever.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
https://eternalbox.dev/jukebox_index.html
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 10 June 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
i'm almost mad at myself now for not 'getting' underworld after beaucoup fish until now. wtf was wrong with me? hyo is great and owb is even better.
i put the drift sampler on my phone for a sunrise run on a really lovely trail near the mountains the other day, having never heard any of it. halfway through my run, 'custard speedtalk' comes on and just dismantles me cell by cell while i'm chasing the sun down the trail. WOW.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 11 June 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
:')
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 June 2021 02:34 (two years ago) link
I remember telling a buddy who was big into UW as a teen about the Drift stuff and he said “cool I’ll check it out some day” then two weeks later he sent me a message like “I just randomly played Dune from that thing you told me, never would have guessed in a million years they could make music like this”
― frogbs, Friday, 11 June 2021 02:38 (two years ago) link
Custard is my favorite Drift song.
― Psychocandy Apple Grey (Pyschocandles), Friday, 11 June 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link
This is now a number of years old, but never thought that I'd ever see a cover of my favorite Underworld track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4OUm544GkY
― i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 June 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
Good tip-off re Dune, frogbs.
I think I got a bit, I dunno, overwhelmed by the box set in a way that stopped me hearing great tracks.
― djh, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
Born Slippy Deep Pan and Thing In a Book are great. Rest of it is prog tedium like Leftfield. Really hope this revival is replaced by the 90s french speedcore revival soon.
― RobbiePires, Thursday, 1 July 2021 01:17 (two years ago) link
Great revival.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 1 July 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
If Leftfield is prog tedium, what the hell should I use to insult Autechre
― Vinnie, Thursday, 1 July 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
i just sank into 'dune' this morning, what a mood
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 1 July 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link