Dubnobasswithmyheadman - Underworld

I can remember hearing 'Rez' for the first time in a smoke filled room full of drunken people. It is the sort of tune that creeps up on you until you suddenly realise that it's the only thing that matters. It seemed to go on forever but I didn't want it to stop. It began to make me sound interesting even though I was only trotting out some secondhand garbage that would have otherwise sounded boring. I found out that its makers were Underworld and so I rushed out and bought dubnobasswithmyheadman. Sadly the album doesn't contain the aforementioned classic, but it has enough highs to have you climbing up the walls for months. While its main ...

Forget everything you know about Underworld. If your experience of the band is the pounding anthemic Born Slippy you will be in for a bit of a shock if you haven't yet heard this amazing debut. Produced to perfection at a time when simplicity was the key to succesful dance music, this pioneering album showed the rest of the UK dance fraternity that Underworld were set to do 2 things. 1) Kick UK dance square up the backside. 2) And do it well. The trio as it then was of Rick Smith (engineering, programming, basically everything in the studio); Karl Hyde (vocals, guitars, further studio meddling); and Darren Emerson (vibes, contacts, more studio ...