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"Cowgirl"

― Grand (grand), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

nuh uh

― jonathon, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

banstyle/sappys curry

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Pearl's Girl

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Juanita/kiteless/To Dream To Love

though this can and will change throughout the day.

― biz, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Dirty Epic"

― Dan (Here Comes Christ On Crutches) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Juanita/kiteless/To Dream To Love

though this can and will change throughout the day.

I Agree With This Post

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Shudder/King of Snake"

― ghost dong (Sonny A.), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Spoonman

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Big up to Beaucoup, but I'd give it to "Jumbo."

― Nbarbour, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

dan got there with the correct answer before me.

i haven't listened to dubnobass ... in years. i need to rectify that.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

pearl's girl

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Rez

― Michael B, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

mmm skyscraper.....

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

That version of Born Slippy without the chanting.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

kate beckinsale

― keyth (keyth), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Pearl's Girl - 144996 version

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

banstyle / sappys curry

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Thing In A Book"

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

*14996. probably unlistenable anywhere other than a packed dancefloor btw but 'Underworld' and 'album' only sounds interesting in terms of graphic design

― to meee (blunt), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

to you?

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ned T Rifle and keyth make compelling arguments.

― Dan (Mmmm Kate Beckensale I Love You) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

"mmm skyscraper... (jamscraper remix)" of this one: http://www.discogs.com/release/98208

― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I like lots of them, though Banstyle/Sappy Curry is a very good one. I only ever listen to that Thing in a Book track when on the train to London, but it is good.

I don't like picking one from this kind of band, as it's not really about that for me, but Banstyle/Sappys Curry is as close as it gets.

Actually, there's one called Oich Oich that I like a lot too... Maybe that.

― KeefW (kmw), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm Skyskraper

― van igloo (van smack), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

I also really like "Dirty -DMD Remix"

― van igloo (van smack), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Pearl's Girl.

hon. mention to Jumbo and the first 30 sec. of Cups.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Rez or MMMM Skyscraper

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

Rez plods like a fule. Vid was aight

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

Needs: +3% pitch, -Goa mud

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 18 May 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

rEz

― ACIEEEEEEEEED, Thursday, 18 May 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Rez" only works live and mostly because of the accel/deccel thing they do.

― Dan (IMO) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 18 May 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jumbo. The Rob Rives & Francois K remix of it is good too.

― Bn1 (Bn1), Thursday, 18 May 2006 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

stand up

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 18 May 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

River of Bass ad lib

― Max Blazevic (kitaj), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:33 (nineteen years ago)

'rez / cowgirl' off the live album.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

Two Months Off

― Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Thursday, 18 May 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

long and dark

― grapple (grapple), Thursday, 18 May 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

'cups'.

― pisces (piscesx), Thursday, 18 May 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Cowgirl

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 18 May 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

rez/cowgirl off the live album also.

close run with dark and long dark train version.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 18 May 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

The original, non-Nuxx version of "Born Slippy"

― Scott Warner (thream), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

rez/cowgirl off the live album also also

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

the versh of 'dark and long' off of 'trainspotting'

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

Dark & Long (Dark Train remix). Easily too.

― rchinn (rchinn), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

yeah that's the one.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

SOMETHING TO DO WITH MINIMAL VOX

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Can't recall if it's "spoonman" or "surfboy" that i'm thinking of (think it's the latter), but it's the one where they go all stuttering miami electro bass and have the rising pitches sorta trailing off throughout the song, until it builds up and starts going "doo doo doo doo. doo doo doo doo" with this great little sound. that's always been a favorite.

but overall i'd probably go with "dirty epic" just for repeat listening value

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

ripping my dubnobass vinyl will have to wait a couple of weeks. but as i type, i'm listening to "dirty epic", which i've just bought off fucking iTunes as i couldn't find a decent enough rip elsewhere. this is maybe the first time i've heard it in ten years. right now there is a case for it being the single greatest song ever made.

i love rediscovering forgotten favourites. thank you, ILM.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

the piano. the glorious piano. o god. "shaken in my faith". godlike.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 18 May 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 32 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

i know yooo-send-eeet isn't allowed on this board, but if anyone has an mp3 of the original born slippy, i can check this yahoo email account...

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

uh, what happened to ysi?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe I'm the only one who picked the Born Slippy w/vocals.

G. F. Stout (1931) argued that if epiphenomenalism (the more familiar name for the ‘conscious automaton’ theory) is right,

it ought to be quite credible that the constitution and course of nature would be otherwise just the same as it is if there were not and never had been any experiencing individuals. Human bodies would still have gone through the motions of making and using bridges, telephones and telegraphs, of writing and reading books, of speaking in Parliament, of arguing about materialism, and so on. There can be no doubt that this is prima facie incredible to Common Sense (138f.).

What Stout describes in this passage and finds ‘prima facie incredible’ is a ‘zombie world’: an entire world whose physical processes are closed under causation (as the epiphenomenalists he was attacking held) and exactly duplicate those in the actual world, but where there are no conscious experiences.

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

new song I'm Little Girl etc. is so epic. Awesome tune. Highly recommended. starts 28mins in their Live at Lemonworld show from last weekend.

― biz, Friday, 19 May 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

how's their recent net-only ep stuff?

― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

a bunch of Beloved 12" remix b-sides

o, how joyous would that be?

i've never heard "dirty" - actually, there's whole screeds of underworld stuff i've never heard - but dan's description of what makes "dirty epic" so great is kinda spot-on.

"big mouth" is superb. i didn't know there was an underworld link. which reminds me: has nobody mentioned freur's "doot doot" yet, by the way? the 12" of that is a thing of some fucking beauty.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

absolutely, positively has to be 'Dirty Epic'. that song gives me shivers that most others don't.

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 19 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

how's their recent net-only ep stuff?

i only have the first one. good moments, but for 30mins of new Underworld, meh.

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 19 May 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

the new net only ep's (2 so far, 3rd coming soon) have been so-so with moments of pure bliss and moments of "where's the skip button". they come bundled with tons of pics and have been played repeatedly at my place. 5 pounds isn't too much to pay and if you buy all 3 you get a free EP of remixes, plus the archive at UWLIVE is filled with great live tracks and videos they add to from time to time.

Always Loved A Film (Silver Boots) - Live at Lemonworld is amazing. had it on repeat for 6hrs now. Still loving it.

― biz, Friday, 19 May 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

the new slew of mixes coming are great too. Robag Wruhme, Pete Heller, Pig and Dan, Buick etc. I've got a promo disc with 6 new minimal techno mixes of UW stuff and i can't wait to hear them on a loud system.

― biz, Friday, 19 May 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Dirty Guitar, Dirty Epic, Dark And Long, Push Upstairs, Trim, Little Speaker, and all the rest...

― Sharkey, Thursday, 25 May 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe I'm the only one who picked the Born Slippy w/vocals.

This is mostly because "Born Slippy" w/o vocals stomps all over it.

― Dan (MORE ARPEGGIOS) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

My answer is "Jumbo". I could listen to it for half an hour, and sometimes I do.

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Thursday, 25 May 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

listening to king of snake on brand new technics in 1998

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:36 (seventeen years ago)

at 33 RPM instead of 45!

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:38 (seventeen years ago)

i was thinking of making a muxtape of songs i have digitized at the wrong speed but my 45 (instead of 33) "Freak Out/Starry Eyes" (LCD Soundsystem) is over 10 megabytes.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:39 (seventeen years ago)

hey wahts the deal with the ymo releases with shitty vocal overdubs

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:40 (seventeen years ago)

never owned one

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:42 (seventeen years ago)

I guess I'm thinking of female vocals on the second half of tong poo

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:44 (seventeen years ago)

there are some weird (compared to the first three albums) overproduced vocal bits on the later material but I don't necessarily think it's all bad

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:51 (seventeen years ago)

tong poo is on self titled.... maybe its an american vinyl press?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 04:55 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

IM DRUNK

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 8 May 2008 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

heyooooooo

― mh, Thursday, 8 May 2008 01:15 (seventeen years ago)

jumbo really is something

― cutty, Thursday, 8 May 2008 02:02 (seventeen years ago)

i found the 'big mouth' 12" a while back from when they were releasing as lemon interupt - the flipside, 'eclipse', is this amazing strung-out balearic house cut. do people know this track?

― haitch, Thursday, 8 May 2008 02:17 (seventeen years ago)

no but i would like to know it

― cutty, Thursday, 8 May 2008 03:07 (seventeen years ago)

It's between the first two and last tracks on Second Toughest.

― chap, Thursday, 8 May 2008 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

great mEmoriEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHWV4B79TMc

― piscesx, Sunday, 6 March 2011 20:31 (fifteen years ago)

the Everything, Everything version of "Rez/Cowgirl" is such a classic and maybe the high watermark of house music

― frogbs, Sunday, 6 March 2011 21:01 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

btw the answer to this is still "Dirty Epic"

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

no it's "Mmm Skyscraper... I Love You"

― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:02 (thirteen years ago)

I admit that is a compelling argument

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:04 (thirteen years ago)

There's a nice newish reedit of Eclipse. Answer is still Dirty Epic.

― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 15:46 (thirteen years ago)

eight years pass...

Made a (drunk) Spotify compilation last night. Had in my head that it was going to be "a CD's worth" but feels like it needs to be double that. What comes off/gets added?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7r27URCXj8c9AaniHb2vj0

― djh, Friday, 9 July 2021 18:07 (four years ago)

I would trade one of the Drift tracks for "Cups."

― henry s, Friday, 9 July 2021 19:54 (four years ago)

opo

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 9 July 2021 20:04 (four years ago)

8 Ball is my OPO. Agree above, but I would remove NUXX, both Drift tracks, and put in 8 Ball, Luetin, and Best Mamgu Ever.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 9 July 2021 20:07 (four years ago)

Thanks!

― djh, Friday, 9 July 2021 22:28 (four years ago)

I can’t see the list but I’ll add Custard Speedtalk just in case brolodu removed it

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 9 July 2021 23:10 (four years ago)

I've found it pretty weird to revisit the Drift stuff lately - I listened to it constantly leading right up to the pandemic so when I hear odd tracks from it now it reminds me so much of the time right before

― frogbs, Saturday, 10 July 2021 04:21 (four years ago)

x-post - ha, yes - it was suggested that it be removed.

― djh, Saturday, 10 July 2021 14:49 (four years ago)

Original track listing

Dirty Epic
Dark and Long - Dark Train
Juanita - Kiteless - To Dream of Love
Born Slippy (Nuxx)
Two Months Off
Pearl's Girl
Mmm ... Skyscraper, I Love You
Custard Speedtalk
Dune
Louisiana

― djh, Saturday, 10 July 2021 16:04 (four years ago)

There are probably 5 or so 'single disk best-of's' i could create for UW without overlapping songs. They've done so many good songs. I'm desperate for a Peach Tree / Ansum 12".

― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 10 July 2021 16:33 (four years ago)

I don't know how in the world you make an 80 minute UW comp given most of their best tracks are 8+ minutes long. Juanita, Rez/Cowgirl (from EE), and Dark Train alone would be like half of it. Off the top of my head this is missing Ova Nova, Holding the Moth, Scribble, Bird 1, Faxed Invitation....

― frogbs, Saturday, 10 July 2021 16:37 (four years ago)

Bird 1 has the best lyrics of any Karl Hyde song, imo. Think it gets overlooked, but it's a fantastic song.

― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 10 July 2021 16:40 (four years ago)

it's interesting how when you listen to Barking there are so many elements that immediately strike you as not UW-like, despite the extremely diverse and prolific career they've had. as a result it tends to get written out of their catalogue a lot. I think it's great but the version that exists in my head is better :)

― frogbs, Saturday, 10 July 2021 16:47 (four years ago)

The original idea was to make a CD for the car (which in itself is different from a "Best of ...") but, more generally, I do like home made compilations for making me have a dive into a back catalogue that I've been neglecting. There's also quite a bit of joy in finding out the tracks that other people would have included - I've discovered/re-discovered/re-evaluated loads of tracks via ILXOR suggestions.

― djh, Saturday, 10 July 2021 20:08 (four years ago)

If it’s a compilation for your car, two of my favorite “driving” songs from UW are their remixes of Orbital - Lush, and their remix of Zion Youth by Dreadzone. Both are 94/95 and are about as good as anything on Dubno or STITI.

― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 10 July 2021 20:47 (four years ago)

one year passes...

In the mood for some new Underworld.

― djh, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 20:50 (three years ago)

after Drift Vol. 1 they said something like "ok we're gonna take a short break and resume with Drift 2 very soon". guessing the pandemic screwed up their plans

fwiw the 20th anniversary of AHDO came and went with no deluxe edition. wonder if it's because they didn't think it would sell or because there just aren't a lot of B-sides and unreleased tracks

― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 21:00 (three years ago)

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