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1992-2002
:Album Description:More than an anthology, Underworld’s 1992-2002 'Best of' album includes unreleased tracks as well as some mixes available for the first time on CD. 16 re-mastered tracks from the original. Over two and a half hours of music. Underworld 1992-2002 is not the full story. Underworld's back catalogue is too vast and rich for that, but it's a gripping one all the same, marking each step along the twisting road from (to paraphrase the Clash) Romford to the world. If Underworld's music has ever chimed with a moment in your ...
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Dubnobasswithmyheadman
:Album Description:Underworld's electronica 1994 debut, Dubnobasswithmyheadman, is still regarded by many as one of the best techno/electronica CDs of all time. 9 tracks, including 'Dark & Long', 'Dirty Epic' & 'Cowgirl' on this Wax Trax! Release. essential recording:On 1994's Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Underworld took the sexy vocal groove of the epic 'Mmm Skyscraper I Love You' and expanded it to album length. It's derivative, but by no means is it forgettable. With 'Skyscraper,' Underworld created the perfect club track; it was dark and dubby, with a relentless groove chugging along below atmospheric ...
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A Hundred Days Off
: :Unlike the Chemical Brothers--their longstanding U.K. brothers in electronica--Underworld have been allowed to grow (relatively) old without being accused of stagnating. A Hundred Days Off, Underworld's first studio release since the departure of member Darren Emerson, demonstrates why. An ecstatic headrush of percolating beats, swirling synth, and shape-shifting melodies, A Hundred Days Off drags everything from Delta blues to space-age pop onto the dance floor. Because the pair takes their cues in part from the real world, filtering each idea through the prism of a rave record, we get wonky faux ...
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Underneath the Radar
:Album Details:1988 Release from the First, 'Rock' Incarnation of Underworld. Produced by Rupert Hine.
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Oblivion with Bells
: :After a five-year hiatus, Underworld return with an album that draws from across their past. With a mix of aggression and sunshine, they calculate syncopated, ricocheted beats against cleanly delineated textures and circumscribed melodies that have the cool of the 1980s New Romantic movement from which they originally sprang as Freur. Kraftwerk is in the DNA of their sound, but they've moved well past that, incorporating elements of hip-hop and industrial music into the mix. I wonder if Underworld's later mix of poetic spoken-word songs affected Brian Eno's recent work with ...
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Oblivion with Bells (Includes bonus DVD)
:Album Description:2007 release from the genre-bending, trend-setting UK Electronic whiz kids. When Underworld released their last album A Hundred Days Off, no one thought it would be nearly 2000 days until the next one arrived. During the lay-off, Rick and Karl, with the aid of trusty laptops, a couple of home studios, Abbey Roads' legendary facilities and a Pig Shed, have been carefully developing ideas for this release, an album that was finally completed in a flurry of activity and excitement in spring 2007. True to form Underworld tread their own ...
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Live: Everything, Everything
: :At the end of 1999, Underworld returned from their international Beaucoup Fish tour utterly exhausted. They had spent almost two years on the road, and that was enough for deck wizard Darren Emerson, who picked up his record box, jetted off to Uruguay, claimed his mantle as a globe-trotting international DJ, and turned his back on Underworld forever. Rick Smith, however, reacted to the experience of coming off the tour in a very different way. Locking himself in the studio for eight months, he watched and listened to tape after tape ...
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Second Toughest in the Infants
:Album Description:Underworld continues to explore the fringes of dub, dance and techno, creating a seamless, eclectic fusion of various dance genres. 'Second Toughest in the Infants' (Wax Trax!) includes the massive 'Pearl's Girls' and 7 other tracks.
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Beaucoup Fish
: 's Best of 1999:The much-anticipated return of Underworld after 1996's landmark recording Second Toughest in the Infants, Beaucoup Fish is infused with subtle, lean rhythms, memorable hooks, and a youthful, sensuous energy. Alternately sinister and sweet, the endless DJ creativity on display is an ecstatic revelation. --Matthew Cooke Amazon.com:A stunning album of smart, dance-pop craft, Beaucoup Fish blends stomping beats and meandering, binary dream worlds into a cohesive and heavenly revelation. It's another work filled with Karl Hyde's singsong talk-vocals ('Push Downstairs') floating over DJ Darren Emerson's sinewy, house-style rave-ups ('King ...
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Pearl's Girl
: 's Best of 1999:The much-anticipated return of Underworld after 1996's landmark recording Second Toughest in the Infants, Beaucoup Fish is infused with subtle, lean rhythms, memorable hooks, and a youthful, sensuous energy. Alternately sinister and sweet, the endless DJ creativity on display is an ecstatic revelation. --Matthew Cooke Amazon.com:A stunning album of smart, dance-pop craft, Beaucoup Fish blends stomping beats and meandering, binary dream worlds into a cohesive and heavenly revelation. It's another work filled with Karl Hyde's singsong talk-vocals ('Push Downstairs') floating over DJ Darren Emerson's sinewy, house-style rave-ups ('King ...
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