CAVLDRON FOUR1E3N <> ANNIHILATING RHYTHM.
[ Now playing in Demon Tribe Hollow... Born Slippy (NUXX) by Underworld from Born Slippy ]
Ive had a fave electronic dance music duo for I guess the last 15 years or so, and thats been the UKs Underworld, the partnership formed by Rick Smith and Karl Hyde that started 33 years ago with a band called Freur. Freur was actually one of the first acts ever that initially featured a symbol to represent them, not even a name. So, the band formerly-known-as-Freur was a very different beast, and easily their most well-known song a pop ditty called Doot Doot reared its curious head once again in a recent vampire film called Let Me In. (It was a charming scene in a run-down basement between two kids one, a female vampire, and the other, her would-be boyfriend.)
So, fast-forward a great many years later and you have a crazy success story in the form of a nearly twelve-minute tune. Its an alternate version of a completely different-sounding track called Born Slippy, and it was used for the final sequence in another film, this one called Trainspotting, which came out almost fifteen years before Let Me In. The massively successful version of this Born Slippy was given the suffix of NUXX and undoubtedly bought both Smith and Hyde their houses, new gear, studio space, and everything else many times over.
Though Underworld has never again matched the crazy success of Born Slippy (NUXX), they have released an incredible lot of amazing material. (Though I will say that the quality of that material has been on an unfortunately steady decline since 2002s A Hundred Days Off.) Since the mid-1990s, thereve been two stellar recordings, having come out after the bands incredible 1994 breakthrough record, Dubnobasswithmyheadman. The first is Second Toughest In The Infants, and the second is Beaucoup Fish. (The latter was actually supposed to be titled Tonight, Matthew, Im Going To Be Underworld right up until the last minute, which I far prefer to Beaucoup Fish, but there it is.)
Ok so a little history of Underworld there. To be fair, I love the Chemical Brothers almost just as much as UW. In fact, the argument could certainly be that I place them both on pedestals of equal height, with UW occupying more the space of trance and the Chems mostly breakbeat. But theres a certain UW track that my heart holds more dear than nearly any other by any artist. Its an amazing, wickedly mesmerizing piece of operatic and organic machine music that was titled after a dog at the races in Romford, England.
And that pup was Pearls Girl.
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[ Also playing in Demon Tribe Hollow... Pearls Girl by Underworld from Second Toughest In The Infants ]
[ Now playing in Demon Tribe Hollow... Born Slippy (NUXX) by Underworld from Born Slippy ]
Ive had a fave electronic dance music duo for I guess the last 15 years or so, and thats been the UKs Underworld, the partnership formed by Rick Smith and Karl Hyde that started 33 years ago with a band called Freur. Freur was actually one of the first acts ever that initially featured a symbol to represent them, not even a name. So, the band formerly-known-as-Freur was a very different beast, and easily their most well-known song a pop ditty called Doot Doot reared its curious head once again in a recent vampire film called Let Me In. (It was a charming scene in a run-down basement between two kids one, a female vampire, and the other, her would-be boyfriend.)
So, fast-forward a great many years later and you have a crazy success story in the form of a nearly twelve-minute tune. Its an alternate version of a completely different-sounding track called Born Slippy, and it was used for the final sequence in another film, this one called Trainspotting, which came out almost fifteen years before Let Me In. The massively successful version of this Born Slippy was given the suffix of NUXX and undoubtedly bought both Smith and Hyde their houses, new gear, studio space, and everything else many times over.
Though Underworld has never again matched the crazy success of Born Slippy (NUXX), they have released an incredible lot of amazing material. (Though I will say that the quality of that material has been on an unfortunately steady decline since 2002s A Hundred Days Off.) Since the mid-1990s, thereve been two stellar recordings, having come out after the bands incredible 1994 breakthrough record, Dubnobasswithmyheadman. The first is Second Toughest In The Infants, and the second is Beaucoup Fish. (The latter was actually supposed to be titled Tonight, Matthew, Im Going To Be Underworld right up until the last minute, which I far prefer to Beaucoup Fish, but there it is.)
Ok so a little history of Underworld there. To be fair, I love the Chemical Brothers almost just as much as UW. In fact, the argument could certainly be that I place them both on pedestals of equal height, with UW occupying more the space of trance and the Chems mostly breakbeat. But theres a certain UW track that my heart holds more dear than nearly any other by any artist. Its an amazing, wickedly mesmerizing piece of operatic and organic machine music that was titled after a dog at the races in Romford, England.
And that pup was Pearls Girl.
-- Y
[ Also playing in Demon Tribe Hollow... Pearls Girl by Underworld from Second Toughest In The Infants ]