The Underworldlive.com thread

[Yannick]

there wont be any picture update on the uwlive page until next monday or so. the shop is still working.

just so you know

[gambit]

I'm sorry, I don't understand that. It's too straight forward for Yannick-speak. Could somebody translate?

[crank]

I'm sorry, I don't understand that. It's too straight forward for Yannick-speak. Could somebody translate?

I think what he's saying is that Karl needs a break. i think Yan's saying Karl needs a vacation. Can anyone verify this translation?

[big screen satellite]

erm - they are doing a 4 date european tour, and perhaps KH doesn't have time to update the page...simple as that

no biggie i think, perhaps there's nowhere he can update the site...

[gambit]

erm - they are doing a 4 date european tour, and perhaps KH doesn't have time to update the page...simple as that

no biggie i think, perhaps there's nowhere he can update the site...erm - I was making a joke. :)

[big screen satellite]

erm - I was making a joke. :)


yeah i know you were ;)

, I was just trying to justify what some people are likley gonna ask about anyway....

[Lou]

wooohooo :)

Have a great time in Japan guys! :D

and the idea of you recording it all is fantastic, looking forward to seeing/hearing it very much.
i so wish i could be there :p

[lloyd]

Yeah, rock them just like you did in Luxemburg!

[undarrenworld]

Its amazing.

[//\/\/]

from uwlive (www.underworldlive.com) "there could be more recordings like this in the future" :)

[Dirty0900]

Omg i hate UW now, all we get is an update everyday;)

[suicidalpenguin]

Omg i hate UW now, all we get is an update everyday;)

Its dirty and you know it :D

[sanakan]

the timezone difference shows on karls updates :D

take a look: bride karl and groom rick on the cover of some japanese magazine :)
to the people in japan: can you recorde those press-interviews?



and btw: thanks stimpee ;)


man, i should get to bed......

[dubman]

that poster says boards of canada....

friggin japan gets everything.

[joethelion]

...and the Orb (I think)

but maybe that's just a magazine cover...

I just say that I's also the Orb b/c BoC is only missing one letter, so you'd assume that there's no extra space for more letters, and how many bands start with "the Or_"

[lloyd]

It is a magazine cover.
http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=mozclient&u=http%3A//loud.jp/000307.html%23more

Who in Japan can get me the mag + the pocketsize version please? PM me, I'll paypal you the costs.

[lloyd]

For anyone wondering how Adrian Sherwood sounds as DJ
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/groups/index.jsp?groups=7870727
click the loudspeaker symbol, a popupscreen with a realaudioplayer will open

[big screen satellite]

Today...

"NEW 12" ON WAY"

yeah - vinyl is coming!!!!

[DwarfeD]

Or did Karl ordered some 12-inches from Australia... ;)

[Cadevil]

Today...

"NEW 12" ON WAY"

yeah - vinyl is coming!!!!

Hmmm...I took that to mean Pizza for Eggs. Karl mentioned these 25 minute downloads where the songs flow into each other as sort of like the old days of 12"...Sort of "digital 12" "

[mmm skyscraper]

Quoting themselves today.

"I don't want to kill time, I want it to live"

I was listening to this in the car this morning and thought, "wow what a great lyric." Funny to see it right after that.

[rudydaduck]

underworldlive today.... is that last line a hint?

[votingfloater]

"for those who wonder: yeah we'd like
to carry on writing & recording
with Gabriel Yared after the
film score's put to bed
thanks to Anthony's
vision something (photo of building)
extraordinary
has been
realiased:1st
though
i reckon an
u/w album is
in order don't you?"Yes please. :)

Busy year ahead, then, going by the Just Off the Radar interview: album, book, series of films with JW...

[stimpee]

"for those who wonder: yeah we'd like
to carry on writing & recording
with Gabriel Yared after the
film score's put to bed
thanks to Anthony's
vision something (photo of building)
extraordinary
has been
realiased:1st
though
i reckon an
u/w album is
in order don't you?"Votingfloater: nice touch. Actually, if Karl posted here with that user name he would get a lot more replies. Crazy replies sure. And probably more questions than comments but I like the idea.

As for the comments themselves then for those that weren't aware it gives them a basic Underworld "roadmap". Something like, 3rd Riverrun--Soundtrack--UWAlbum--More Work with Yared--other stuff.... kind of thing. I don't get the impatience of people to say "where's the album?" though. In the last few months there's been way more than an albums worth of new material and I've seen the band live half a dozen times (yes I know Underworld haven't toured certain geographic areas, but there have been live recordings filtering out in various forms featuring yet more new material not released).

[big screen satellite]

yeah a new album is in order...

Stimps, i have to disagree a bit though about having material given to us...

yes, we have been blessed: with some web projects, and live materials and lots of live contact, but an UW album was kinda promised a long time ago and has taken on a back burner role...what with the soundtrack and the RRP's

I for one can't wait until the Yared Soundtrack project materialises, plus the book of photo's, plus more RRP's, but what most people know and love about UW is their commercially released albums (and releated singles) and i think that we are right to want this to come as soon as possible...(meaning when its possible for UW to do it, not straight away, unless it is ready ;) )

if UW had said that they weren't going to release a new album then fair enough, but they have always intimated that an album was coming...

i don't wanna rush the guys...but even Karl admits its about time...and they must have enough decent stuff out of 180 pieces to make some quality albums with...

so i'm not complaining, but i prefer the Album's and Singles to anything else...the RRP is great but...

bring on the album!!!

Matt

[Leon]

yeah a new album is in order...

Stimps, i have to disagree a bit though about having material given to us...

yes, we have been blessed: with some web projects, and live materials and lots of live contact, but an UW album was kinda promised a long time ago and has taken on a back burner role...what with the soundtrack and the RRP's

I for one can't wait until the Yared Soundtrack project materialises, plus the book of photo's, plus more RRP's, but what most people know and love about UW is their commercially released albums (and releated singles) and i think that we are right to want this to come as soon as possible...(meaning when its possible for UW to do it, not straight away, unless it is ready ;) )

if UW had said that they weren't going to release a new album then fair enough, but they have always intimated that an album was coming...

i don't wanna rush the guys...but even Karl admits its about time...and they must have enough decent stuff out of 180 pieces to make some quality albums with...

so i'm not complaining, but i prefer the Album's and Singles to anything else...the RRP is great but...

bring on the album!!!

Matt

Well as much as we want the album to come, they will decide when. Honestly, them intimating the coming of a new album, I don't know about that. They might have dropped hints of working on it, but not really that it's coming soon.

And further more, I really don't understand why you're saying "bring on the album!!!". Be thankful for what you've got now (and that a LOT, Riverrun projects (+ those that have yet to come), web broadcasts and everything.

[Lou]

UW themselves are so happy and excited they can release all the material they'ld like us to hear through UWlive.com, without any intervention from a recordcompany that binds them to limiting contracts!!!
We get to hear things that would never have been released through a recordcompany...

Plus they finally are selling their own recordings when they play live.
:D

And indeed the webcasts and all that!
They share their journey with us, in a way no regular album can compete with, well, that's my opinion anyway.
Would you rather have an album every 2 years or so, and no contact, no webcasts, no information through a diary-website? ;)

[big screen satellite]

Well as much as we want the album to come, they will decide when. Honestly, them intimating the coming of a new album, I don't know about that. They might have dropped hints of working on it, but not really that it's coming soon.

And further more, I really don't understand why you're saying "bring on the album!!!". Be thankful for what you've got now (and that a LOT, Riverrun projects (+ those that have yet to come), web broadcasts and everything.

i am thankful,

but like i said i just think that what most people would like from Underworld is a full complete album, and they have suggested that one is coming for quite a while... if you're working on an album, surely its intimation that one is coming...and i for one think that the RRP's have come from creating music for an album, these are the bits not deemed album worthy.

I know R&K have been very busy of late, and i'm not expecting one this week ;) but we haven't had an UW album for 3 and half years and one is due...

its all very well releasing download work, but i kinda feel that it is just a teaser, and not the real thing until i see some stuff for sale on the shelves of my record store...and album is still where its at, and one is due...when?

well, who knows, i just say bring it on.... when it comes :)

no rush though...

[big screen satellite]

UW themselves are so happy and excited they can release all the material they'ld like us to hear through UWlive.com, without any intervention from a recordcompany that binds them to limiting contracts!!!
We get to hear things that would never have been released through a recordcompany...

Plus they finally are selling their own recordings when they play live.
:D

And indeed the webcasts and all that!
They share their journey with us, in a way no regular album can compete with, well, that's my opinion anyway.
Would you rather have an album every 2 years or so, and no contact, no webcasts, no information through a diary-website? ;)


no i'd expect that as well ;)

at least KH is doing what he loves, its easy being in some bands, make an album every couple of years and no contact, yeah for sure...but KH is a full on writer, communicator, and lover of his art...and he and Rick are able to function with their fans much more so than most groups....

but its only been recent years that we've had all this luxury...

the web is opening new doors every week, and we are being spoiled, because K&R like the technology, but lets not forget the bread and butter of what UW are and thats making (& selling) music, and still the best way to get that across to the widest audiences is through an album...

just because we have all this lovely new stuff doesn't mean we don't want an album as well...all i am saying is that an album has been hinted at and mentioned for some while now, and nothing's appeared...

if KH had said - 'thats it' no more albums then i'd be fine and accept that, but the fact is, one is due, maybe not scheduled, and all i am saying is 'bring it on', because thats what KH said today...an U/W album is 'in order'

i'm all for letting the boys do what they want, when they want, and giving us this lovely new stuff via differing formats, but whats wrong with wanting an album as well...?

[rayray]

yaaaah, he said album! :)

[Caprice]

I nearly crapped my pants when i read todays UW live.


thank you Underworld!!!!

[stimpee]

We are in a privileged position as far as Artist-Fan communication is concerned. It really doesnt bother me right now about an album materialising this year or early next. If little bits of material keep dribbling out (as they have done) then its better than The Stone Roses disappearing for 5 years and then coming back with a Led Zeppelin album, or The Happy Mondays snorting crack on a caribbean island and then churning out the mediocre "Yes Please" (no thanks!) album.

[negative1]

wow, it really has been 3 years already?
so not including EE, and anthology...its
been pretty regular with the album releases.

maybe this is the year?

later
-1

[potatobroth]

im very pleased with the RRP, and im loving the bootlegs from the recent (yet small) tour. im excited about the soundtrack, and the new band about to form. i love that UW gives us so much and for that i thank them.

but...

there is just something to be said of an Underworld album. yes, Stimp, we are in a priveledged position, but we are also super fans. there are friends of mine that arent devoted to scouring every resource possible to get the latest listen. they are the people that want the new album, new singles. i tried to convince them that there is tons of new material out there to be found, but they just said that they'd wait for the new album. after awhile i realized that we were both right. to a superfan, RRP sounds complete, sounds great. but to a regular fan, it sounds like experiments that are leading up to something. to a superfan, the little segues between tracks at the Electraglide Tokyo festival are just-as-good-if-not-better than a studio album, but to the regular fan, they dont exist because they didnt spend DAYS tracking down mp3s of it on ebay.

so i can see it both ways. luckily im in the boat with the uber fans and have gotten a listen to most of the new material, but i can still see it from the casual fans point of view. another UW album sounds like a great idea to me right about now :P

[negative1]

just out of curiousity, has anyone been keeping track
of worldwide album sales? for-
anthology
a hundred days off
beaucoup fish

i know the previous ones did really well..
and of course they're one of the top 'dance'
artists in europe and of course japan..

are album sales really that important any more?

later
-1

[stimpee]

im very pleased with the RRP, and im loving the bootlegs from the recent (yet small) tour. it wasnt that small. 20 dates. just geographically concentrated.

as for the rest, i can only speak as an uberfan.

[gaborez]

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyes! :)

[Mort]

and maybe a small tour please....
even just a few major cities here and there....
Most of us would be happy to travel if UW could hit our continents....

[suicidalpenguin]

Album,
did someone mention ALBUM??

Woohoo

[Dipson]

Album: Yes please!
Tour: Yes double-please!

:D:D:D

[holden]

i'm excited, too, about the possibility of a new longplayer from the boys.

Yet... not to rain on the parade too much, but we knew the next album was aways off, like early 2007, for a while now. Karl didn't say it's coming tomorrow; he just states the next UW will be after the soundtrack and before some future collaboration with Gabriel.

Hopefully it's sooner than later, but i'm not sure what the surprise is from this update:confused:

[lloyd]

New vids in the archive today one from Tokyo and one from Sophia.

[lloyd]

The interview Karl posted about some time ago is archived at the Just off the Radar site. http://www.justofftheradar.com/ > archive > choose show #111.
Interview starts at 18:51. Resume on my blog. Interesting interview with lots of news.

[sanakan]

thanks for reminding me about that, lloyd!
great interview, indeed, just finished listening to it :)

sounds like busy months and years ahead for the boys! i'm excited!

[potatobroth]

Karl, isnt there a feature to turn off the 'camera noise' of your cellphone: Shutter Sounds?

[Jason Roth]

Usually putting your phone on "Silent" will negate all sounds, even the camera.

[dubman]

i can't take the bins out, i'll miss the ebay auction...

[stimpee]

New vids in the archive today one from Tokyo and one from Sophia.

Further Info:

The "Dark & Long" from Sophia, is really Dark & Long and then Shake That Higher so we get 2 tracks in one 11min video. The Tokyo video appears to have Karl saying "Tokyyyyooooooooooooo!" rather energetically and then cuts to a 3minute edit of Two Months Off. The Space Shower part of the filename refers to the Japanese TV station.

[joethelion]

yes Karl, I have spent looong periods of time going through phonica

...it's actually a pretty decent website - thanks for the link

[Leon]

Today on Uwlive.com the link shows us some artists, one of them is SCSI-9. While I don't know anything about them, I only own the track "Deep & Fax" by them, which is played on Dirtyradio I believe. The track rocks.

[m.g.]

Yes, very interesting link on uwlive today. About SCSI-9, their 2003 album (Digital Russian, which includes Deep & Fax) is very good, the same for their tracks in recent Kompakt compilations...

[botkiller]

Karl says they're screening the film to the public today... I wonder where? I'd kill to get to be one of the people to see that...

[big screen satellite]

Karl says they're screening the film to the public today... I wonder where? I'd kill to get to be one of the people to see that...

i think when he says 'public', i think its a pretty small test screening to those in the know...rather than the 'actual' public...its probably a screening more to those involved than 'general' nobodies...:)

[grady]

i think when he says 'public', i think its a pretty small test screening to those in the know...rather than the 'actual' public...its probably a screening more to those involved than 'general' nobodies...:)

Could be the general cast and crew screening + their select few friends to see the work they all contributed on and then to gauge reactions as they head into the next phase of post-production, ie. more cutting, tightening things here and there, and just making things tiddy before it gets screened to a larger more PUBLIC audience.

I could be wrong in all of this, but generally, when the score is being completed that means the picture is Locked and the necessarily changes and cuts have already been made.

Checking out the production credits over at the imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443456/companycredits) yeilding a bit of insight, but it appears to be a largely 'independent' production outside of the major studios aside from market distribution to the various regions of the world.

Once again, I might be, and probably am wrong on a great deal of this so if any of the parties involved would care to comment that would probably help clarify. I'm sure a press release and some more production info will be coming down the pipe in a matter of weeks and months.

One last thing. On that link above to the production it listed Miramax as a production company and The Weinstein Co. as a distributor. Seeing as how Harvey and Bob have split from Miramax and Disney I would which entity is involved and to which extent, seeing as how the imdb isn't always the most reliable source of information from time to time.

[dubman]

ceci n'est pas un album d'underworld

[froopy seal]

There is no dog in the picture today. Please move on.

[Caprice]

Their dog is so cute! I bet he/she is the tamest Dalmatian.

[selector]

hmmm...

I think it might be time for a new ? & ! thread.
or a revival of the orginal.
http://www.dirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2061&highlight=question
what do you think karl?

[BeautifulBurnout]

Oooooooh! Spotty Dog!

What have we got for dinner today?
Sawdust and hay
Sawdust and hay!

Only Rick, Karl, Rog, and perhaps //\/\/ would be old enough to remember that, I reckon. ;)

[stimpee]

Its the biggest spotty dog you ever did see!

[stimpee]

Could be the general cast and crew screening + their select few friends to see the work they all contributed on and then to gauge reactions as they head into the next phase of post-production, ie. more cutting, tightening things here and there, and just making things tiddy before it gets screened to a larger more PUBLIC audience.There was a screening in New York/Manhattan yesterday at the Chelsea Clearview (?) so messages on the imdb say.

"Breaking and Entering was excellent. I submitted a longer comment to IMDB that should be posted in a few days, but here is the gist: Minghella's direction is excellent. He is an acute observer of human relationships. He finds the right pace and tone for the story. The acting is top-notch all around. Jude Law gives his best performance. Minghella always brings out the best in him. Juliette Binoche is sublime and Robin Wright Penn is radiant. Rafi Gavron is outstanding and Vera Farmiga and Martin Freeman are very funny in smaller roles. The cinematography is stunning and the score was very modern and elegant. It was a rough cut, and I can't wait to see the finished film when it gets released."

"Minghella's got a winner here. Will it receive any Oscar nods? I think Binoche certainly deserves one, though the performances are great across the board. Vera Farmiga is the crowd pleaser, though, when it comes to the movie's humor. She plays a Romanian prostitute whose frank dialogue with Jude Law's character, Will, had the audience in stitches. Her performance is not to be missed."

"I think if the recent AMPAS trend for smaller character dramas continues, I could defiently see Breaking and Entering nominated for Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Supporting Actress (not sure about the placement though, both Robin Wright Penn and Juliette Binoche have about the same amount of screen time. It could be Penn-lead Binoche-supporting or vice versa. A case could be made for each.), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing and Score. But with an August release date it could very well be ignored."

August release date??

[potatobroth]

Chelsea Clearview! dammit! i was there last night as a meeting point for a friend. GRRR!

[joethelion]

speaking of Dada (f/ today's post)

anyone in the DC area should check out the Dada exhibit at the National Gallery. It was suprisingly big, and had some really great pieces.

[m.g.]

August release date??
That's what they say (for the USA) on the "release dates" line in the "Other Info" box... IMDb not always having the most accurate infos though...

[dubman]

the indifference of the dalmation was overrated

('k i'll stop)

[dubman]

yo karl:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/black_mountain_college.html

they have tapes of all their programs too, so you can have a whole program of it. (edit: though not sure they can help out on PAL format though).

looks they they were major pushers, or precursors, to the indexical mark in art. the act of acting as the art and the presentation of it secondary, as in after the art itself of acting.
yes?
ritualism!
the erased de kooning drawing!
(this is a portrait if i want it to be!)
post-bauhaus!
greenberg (maybe, probably!)!

i can also abuse my uni account to nab some info from the art history subscription sites like groveart...

[sanakan]

a gift to karl from me as well:

black mountain college projct (http://www.bmcproject.org/Biographies/biographies.htm), has about other things a list of students/teachers.

also wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_College) tosses few names (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_Poets)


hth

[grady]

Karl, while digging and sifting through databases at my university's library on a film noir project I'm in the middle of I did a bit of searching on Black Mountain. Here is just a bit of what I found.

a book from MIT (http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=9543)

a John Cage interview (http://www.thirteen.org/bucky/cage.html)

an essay about the school (http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:IOXppsjZ8EsJ:www.egspress.com/catalogue/Atkins.pdf+Socrates+%26+Serendipity:+Ungainly+Begi nnings+of+an+Improbable&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a)

General info on the school from the state (http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/bmc_web_page/bmc3.htm)

some info on Charles Olson (http://college.hmco.com/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/olson.html)

The Charles Olson Research Collection (http://charlesolson.uconn.edu/Works_in_the_Collection/Olson_Publications/journal.htm)

Expect more later when I have more time.

[rayray]

a couple of days late, but this guy is seriously underrated for his thoughts and was part of the black mountain clan.

http://bfi.org/taxonomy/term/25

his book "critical path" is a really interesting read - a big picture kind of guy with his eye and mind on the issues focused on humanity. enjoy.

[aNt]

now i wouldnt just like post up saying anything that may not be happening
soon- like that would just be out of order wouldnt it?

<- runs off and hides with his bag of fat insider info!

[King of Snake]

now i wouldnt just like post up saying anything that may not be happening
soon- like that would just be out of order wouldnt it?

<- runs off and hides with his bag of fat insider info!

I hate you


GRRRR:mad:

[grady]

Here are two more links on the Black Mountain College topic. Probably more to come as I go through more and more databases this weekend.

one (http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2001-07/blackmountain.html)

two (http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/creeley/interview.html)

[dubman]

pfft. come back when you have a real teaser!

[Lou]

i dunno... if aNt starts teasing us, something might come up soon :p
Karl said they're craving to do another broadcast, that might the first next?

[King of Snake]

that or the next riverrun installment.

[Caprice]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Farka_Toure

[dubman]

i was a-BOUT to say...
then again, maybe karl doesn't check pitchfork or tinymixtapes on a regular basis.

truly sad though :(

[rudydaduck]

and what is that photo of? is that recent? such a crisp picture/ like a new camera phone maybe/ something must be on the way very very soon. i believe that much.

[lloyd]

There is a 7 meg camphone to which you can add a tele or a wide lens
http://www.infosyncworld.net/2005/03/17/gfx/samsung_sch_v770_02.jpg
And even a 8 meg camphone has been announced by samsung...

edit (thanks to Raz) forget the 8 meg one.... http://mobilementalism.com/2006/03/10/samsungs-sch-b600-10-megapixel-camera-phone-not-just-for-korea/

[crank]

Wonder why no refresh on UWlive today? Maybe treats are about to arrive and they are trying to get their stuff together? aNt?

[holden]

Karl, you needn't apologize for the later-than-usual diary update! Change in routine is good for us...prevents spoiling!


Is that Rick taking a nap on the right? Karl next to him, or no?

[Jafs]

Yes it's them

[botkiller]

I love the current pic... (march 14)... I wonder if Karl just asked a flight attendant to take the pic, 'cuz you can see karl and Rick on the right side sitting there.

[Dirty0900]

When i log on and dont see a new image im never bothered, for a band that gives us new content and constant updates everyday im sure everyone on here can give em some slack!

[TheBang]

Wonder why no refresh on UWlive today?
LOL, we're obsessed, and they just feed our obsession.

"sorry for the delay in getting the diary up today..."

[TheBang]

I love the current pic... (march 14)... I wonder if Karl just asked a flight attendant to take the pic
I don't think they have flight attendants on trains. ;)

[testudo]

how about some real news... RIVERRUN?

[votingfloater]

Bwahaha... I love pictures like this. A shitload of shattered folk looking like someone let the air out of them. Just what you usually see on the way back from the loo on the train/plane.

Best photo ever on UWlive!

[big screen satellite]

I don't think they have flight attendants on trains. ;)

they may do if it was the bullet... ;)

[holden]

Ah, so that was a train? i was gonna comment on the overhead luggage being shaky-looking and unsecured for air travel, but i guess on a smooth rail, it's not a biggie. :o woops!

Agreed, though...one of my favorite UW Live pix!

[dubman]

Karl, a question.

What do you think of the upcoming movie Snakes on a Plane?

if you hadn't heard of this movie yet, what would you say to a movie starring Samuel L Jackson who plays an FBI agent, hired to transport a key witness in an important trial, only to find that an assassin has let loose hundreds of snakes on this airplane in an attempt to kill this witness?

here are a couple links to help make you an informed decision on your anticipation for Snakes on a Plane:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0417148/

http://www.tagworld.com/snakesonaplane (trailer at the bottom)

thank you for your time.

[Dipson]

Look at all of that equipment just dying to be used..

Can't wait for the work on the film to be done :}

[Liam]

Karl, a question.

What do you think of the upcoming movie Snakes on a Plane?

if you hadn't heard of this movie yet, what would you say to a movie starring Samuel L Jackson who plays an FBI agent, hired to transport a key witness in an important trial, only to find that an assassin has let loose hundreds of snakes on this airplane in an attempt to kill this witness?

here are a couple links to help make you an informed decision on your anticipation for Snakes on a Plane:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0417148/

http://www.tagworld.com/snakesonaplane (trailer at the bottom)

thank you for your time.

Haha, I'd heard that the makers really wanted to call this film something else, but Jackson said that he would quit if they didn't call it 'Snakes on a Plane,' and so they caved in. A truly awful name indeed :D

[dubman]

i think by awful you mean transcendant.

Beaks: One of those films that you’re working on right now is... well, it’s called "Pacific Air 121"—

Jackson: Snakes on a Plane, man!

[mmm skyscraper]

New version of Lovely Broken Thing?

[polar_action]

mmm...secret location... but we're given a map.

2 stations caught my eye. Madia Vale and Mornington Crescent.

I think that says more about me. 1 - that I know about the BBC studios where some cool stuff gets recorded and 2 - that I'm a Radio 4 listener :)


take it easy. (and give eddie mare a listen : pm is good radio)

[Dirty0900]

Maybe a secret gig at a tube station!?!?!?!?! Oh the rumour mill will go overtime now.

But Maida Vale could be a good bet, i've been there for a gig and its a big place for other things to go on.

[Bargo]

There's new videos for Electraglide and Sophia up at UWLive. :)

And there's also the news:

there's a new riverrun download on the horizon

[stimpee]

There's new videos for Electraglide and Sophia up at UWLive. :)FYI: King Of Snake and Pearl's Girl @ Sofia 05 and Moaner from Tokyo 05. One good thing i've noticed and am appreciative of: We've had 7 audio tracks and 5 video tracks from Sofia and they are mutually exclusive so we have almost a full concert.

[votingfloater]

2 stations caught my eye. Madia Vale and Mornington Crescent.
Funny, the first thing I thought of was the Otis Lee Crenshaw "Tube Stop Song"... very, very funny.:D

New RiverRun - at last a sniff of something official! What's the latest gossip and betting on the flavour of this one?

[Dipson]

Some of the vids included in today's update are named incorrectly. In order for them to work properly, you'll have to unzip them as usual, then name the unzipped file to a .mov extension before you are able to play them. (e.g. "Pearls girl sophia 05" to "Pearls girl sophia 05.mov")

Can't wait to hear the new RiverRun :]

[TheBang]

There's new videos for Electraglide and Sophia up at UWLive. :)
That's so weird, cause I had a dream last night that there was new uwlive content posted, and then there was! In my dream, it was new audio content. I'll take postage-stamp video too, though!

Some of the vids included in today's update are named incorrectly. In order for them to work properly, you'll have to unzip them as usual, then name the unzipped file to a .mov extension before you are able to play them. (e.g. "Pearls girl sophia 05" to "Pearls girl sophia 05.mov")
Works fine on a Mac. :)

[stimpee]

Works fine on a Mac. :)I suspect they were posted on a Mac. Ya know, a machine which doesnt really need such primitive things as a three letter extension to tell it what to play it with.

Get a Mac. Never go back.

[Eikman]

that picture today....with the african wood carvings....was that taken in the british museum? i could swear i was standing in front of those only 2 weeks ago...

[Dirty0900]

Good choice on Germlin link today, love that album to bits, though it needs to be longer!

[stimpee]

I've noticed big differences in the quality of the audio on the Sofia videos. Some of them sound just SO bad compared to the others. Although I am appreciative of the releases, I feel it would be good to have some consistency. Here is a run down so you know what I mean:

Born Slippy: 44.1khz, 16bit, Stereo
Lenny Penne: 44.1khz, 16bit, Stereo

which is great, but then we have:

King Of Snake: 16khz, 16bit, Mono
Dark & Long: 16khz, 16bit, Mono
Pearl's Girl: 16khz, 16bit, Mono

Is there any chance that we can get these videos reissued in the same quality as the other two?

[TheBang]

That sucks. Well, if they never reissue them, I suppose you could always replace the sound track yourself when the MP3's finally get released.

[King of Snake]

I suspect they were posted on a Mac. Ya know, a machine which doesnt really need such primitive things as a three letter extension to tell it what to play it with.

Get a Mac. Never go back.


ahahaahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA

ahum

hehe...

[Lou]

ow! James Holden played in Doornroosje, Nijmegen, just 2 weeks ago :S
I should check their website more often!

[patrick]

i like todays pic! looks so relaxing, and there is actually sunlight!

who's johN?

[BeautifulBurnout]

If yesterday's message was anything to go by, John Lennon :)

[holden]

i like todays pic! looks so relaxing, and there is actually sunlight!



i agree! The boys seem to be so busy these days, it's nice to see a sort of "just hanging out like the good ol' days" shot. At least that's what i think of it!

To be honest, most pictures of Underworld make me happy...they've always got character, better than the grip-n-grins or too-cool-for-you superstar dj pictures some groups employ:p

[crank]

hm. I was wondering if it was John Peel...maybe both Johns...Maybe John Warwicker...

[grady]

Anyone else wonder what the one book being carried around is in regards to todays(28.03.06) post on underworldlive?

'One book is always carried. one book for the fears.'

Is this book a sam shepard book?

[TheBang]

I would guess the book is what was linked to:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306813718/102-4741587-1965733?v=glance&n=283155

[grady]

I know Karl has often mentioned Sam Shepard and I clicked on the link too.

I wonder if Mr. Hyde has seen the new Wim Wenders film Don't Come Knocking. It stars Mr. Shepard who penned the story with Mr. Wenders and Mr. Shepard doing screenplay work himself.

I have a copy of the film but haven't had a chance to sit down and give it my full undivided attention.

[holden]

Very heartfelt message from Karl today re: Motown influence and San Shepherd.
Thank you, Karl, for using that inspiration to entertain and influence so many of us!
:)
Holden

[holden]

Today's post:
"At Lemonworld with rick & steve listening loud through u/w material oh joy"

oh joy, indeed!:D

[m.g.]

oh joy, indeed!:D
Exactly what I thought...

[rudydaduck]

ready for it. ready for it NOW! :D

[dubman]

i quite like the new nathan fake. i wasn't totally sold on it a first because it sounded like M83 with less ambition/melodrama and much more bedroom produced sounding, but the guy just has good melodies working for him and i came around to it.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Bizarre link today, Karl.

Are we just too Dirty and need a wash now? :p

[votingfloater]

Spring cleaning! Which is coincidentally what I'm doing today, cos I'm moving away soon and have folk coming round to look at the room.

Personal favourite thing from this UWlink:

http://www.cleaning101.com/cleaning/history/09Hist.JPG

Very Dad's Army. :D

[dubman]

he has got some damn good records on this update.
sleeparchive, the ricardo villalobos "ep" is amazing, especially "ichso." the ellen allien/apparat single and the apparat mini-live release are both top notch. especially the live ep.. the guy really maximizes his compositions when he plays them out live. hope he comes stateside soon.

[Jafs]

I think Karl really loves Border Community :D

[Flywaver]

Keep getting error on the Live site.Does this mean there is about to be a RiverRun added????????? (Waits with anticipation!!!) :D

[votingfloater]

Relax... aNt's been doing a tomato site and uwlive's gone down as collateral damage! :D

http://www.dirty.org/forums/showthread.php?p=36985#post36985

[dubman]

oh... my god.

http://tomato.co.uk/tomato.jsp?P=4121085831183499924747736946476450551 7722399016550&I=16_floating.jpg

this book neeeeeeds to come out./

[TheBang]

Wow. So that's where the typography and design for the Live in Tokyo album art came from. What's the relation to "Simple Distinctive"?

[grady]

oh... my god.

http://tomato.co.uk/tomato.jsp?P=4121085831183499924747736946476450551 7722399016550&I=16_floating.jpg

this book neeeeeeds to come out./

here here

someone should start a poll regarding this.

[dubman]

haha, sharing air time with whitehouse.
their new album is fantastic.

all these u/w projects seem to be in perpetual full swing :p

[lloyd]

15th century tiles... what's up with those?
Here's a link to a specialist bookshop that has a lot of titles on tiles, you might give them a ring. http://www.nvva.nl/gysbers/c00985.htm
This url has a 6 links to some tiles http://www.collectie.nl/dir003/CIS/CIS.nsf/vwEeuw/15?OpenDocument
Theres a museum in Romania that has a collection http://www.itcnet.ro/sibiu/engl/sigher_e.htm
And for the next time you're in .jp http://www.itcnet.ro/sibiu/engl/sigher_e.htm

[rayray]

Here's something about the tiles found in the Laurentian library in Florence.
Ben Nicholson did a seminar on this when I was in arch-school in chicago, it
was very interesting. Not sure if this is the stuff you want, but it's good stuff, enjoy Karl. PS - thanks for the tokyo discs!

http://bennicholson.com/ma/maestx.htm
http://www.leonet.it/culture/nexus/98/nicholson.html
http://www.nexusjournal.com/conferences/N1998-Nicholson.html

[dubnobasswithme]

looks like another archive update today!

12/04/06
video/japan 2005
video/budapest 2005

[lloyd]

Great, thanks boys.
New location too, the Sziget festival

[m.g.]

AND... there's this little sentence on the archive page :

"not only is there a new riverrun download on the horizon but there's talk of more broadcasting. hold tight. stay alert." ;)

[grady]

I was so excited when this was posted today after the daily check of uw live.

Now if only we could get some audio/video from the show in Zurich on 2005-08-12. I love the opening track on that boot and want to hear a better version of it. That track has been on a constant loop in my head.

:p

[stimpee]

I've noticed big differences in the quality of the audio on the Sofia videos. Some of them sound just SO bad compared to the others. Although I am appreciative of the releases, I feel it would be good to have some consistency. Here is a run down so you know what I mean:

Born Slippy: 44.1khz, 16bit, Stereo
Lenny Penne: 44.1khz, 16bit, Stereo

which is great, but then we have:

King Of Snake: 16khz, 16bit, Mono
Dark & Long: 16khz, 16bit, Mono
Pearl's Girl: 16khz, 16bit, Mono

Is there any chance that we can get these videos reissued in the same quality as the other two?Well, it seems that someone has noticed that the three mono videos from Sophia sounded poor and have re-released them in stereo. Why they weren't made 44.1khz stereo I dont know, but its an improvement so go and re-download them :) The Born Slippy and Lenny Penne videos are unchanged. Thanks to Raz for pointing out the filename differences.

[Lou]

Ha! My favourite was Joe Frazier :) I watched the fight on tv as a kid with my dad, for that special occasion i was up late :D
Did you see it?

[patrick]

i like todays link for the reason that i like knowin that karl is interested and concerned about the environment and world in general. i guess i always kinda assumed that they were due to the natural fo some of their lyrics but i think it's a huge issue and the societies views are going to be so different in 10 years so muh of the stuff the masses care about now will pale in comparrison (i hope at least)

[big screen satellite]

Karl listening to football on Radio 5, in the last UWLive post...

wondered if KH had a team he followed (i know he likes the Raiders of Romford, Ice Hockey), but do you look out for any round ball results Mr Hyde??

[Dirty0900]

Sure there an old uwlive photo at the world cup final.........

Im sure he was listening to the mighty Newcastle!

[testudo]

how about some new news on riverrun?????

[stimpee]

Karl listening to football on Radio 5, in the last UWLive post...

wondered if KH had a team he followed (i know he likes the Raiders of Romford, Ice Hockey), but do you look out for any round ball results Mr Hyde??Ice Hockey is grrrreat. But im not sure I want to know of any footballing affiliations unless its this place (http://www.romfordfc.com/). Maybe Underworld would like to sponsor Romford FC like Skint did with Brighton...

[TheBang]

how about some new news on riverrun?????
Screw the news. I'll settle for just riverrun.

[big screen satellite]

Ice Hockey is grrrreat. But im not sure I want to know of any footballing affiliations unless its this place (http://www.romfordfc.com/). Maybe Underworld would like to sponsor Romford FC like Skint did with Brighton...

that'd be cool, not sure if they'd stretch to a 6 figure sum though ;)

[froopy seal]

Maybe Underworld would like to sponsor Romford FC like Skint did with Brighton... I'm eager for the Tomato art jerseys.

Romford FC aren't too communicative, are they? Blue text on blue background is baaad for me eyes.

[dubman]

anyone notice that the pictures in the last, oh, week or so have been of really high quality?
the taxicab (?), te warped trees, the slight wierd dementia of toys and stuffed animals. today's one is damn fine too.
kinda making me look at my own shots of late and geetting more critical of what should be out there and what just isn't good enough... getting the best out of it. if pictures like those are considered interchangable and day by day, well, it doesnt hurt to have a standard that high.

edit: ok, it seems like i played a fanboy card, but aren't they?

[bryantm3]

it's the most fascinating thing you've ever seen! i've made a post in the General forum on moby.com if you'd like to read a description, but it's abandoned NYC subways, there are dozens of stations that have been completely abandoned that you can access by secret trap doors in the platforms and all under new york city.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Subways%20homepage/subways.html

[Flywaver]

I used to drive Trains in London and i heard alot of stories that in many of the Tunnels there are doorways to another underworld :eek:

[sanakan]

@flywaver: read gaiman's book "neverwhere" ;)

@bryantm3: there's the underworld live (http://www.dirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1782) thread for topics like this here...

[dubman]

his link today to The Ends is pretty fantastic stuff. guy needs a label right friggin now.

i didn't know underworld had a myspace... that's a damn fine advert for yourself isn't it though. this band has the stamp of approval from numerous BBC staples, along with a confounding quote as a recommendation from mogwai and a thumbs up from underworld ;)

[TheBang]

What's with the multiple level pictures today? I looked for something hidden behind a "sweet facade" but didn't find anything.

[den]

it's the most fascinating thing you've ever seen! i've made a post in the General forum on moby.com if you'd like to read a description, but it's abandoned NYC subways, there are dozens of stations that have been completely abandoned that you can access by secret trap doors in the platforms and all under new york city.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Subways%20homepage/subways.html
That's really cool. There's lots of old frieght tunnels underneath the buildings in downtown Chicago. Back in 1992, somehow one of them was punctured underneath the river, flooding all of them and causing $2 billion dollars worth of damage.

[froopy seal]

What's with the multiple level pictures today? I looked for something hidden behind a "sweet facade" but didn't find anything. There was (and is today) a link to another picture on uwlive which then linked to another picture which linked to another picture... Until you came to the usual external link. (Can't remember what it was then, today it's the Art-o-mat.)

I believe that picture sequence was what Mr Hyde was referring to by advising to look behind the sweet facade.

[joethelion]

not sure if this is happening again - or if the last post is referring to the same thing as me... but anyways

I get the feeling that something is coming up soon... first the photo / message about wanting to 'scratch' a very specific 'itch'

and there's not the usual 'latest release' deal that sends you to Pizza for Eggs...

[rayray]

one nation in fear of the foot ! too funny, it had a delayed reaction on me, then i was laughing up a storm. loving the layered posts btw.

[change]

The layered posts are definitely nice. The "Latest Release" and archive update info is still on the first page, but on subsequent pages it does not appear.

[Jafs]

Frank Lampard is my favourite England's football player :D

[TheBang]

Anyone have coulrophobia?

[BeautifulBurnout]

Anyone have coulrophobia?

Nah - but I used to work with a bloke that did. Really bizarre. Very macho in every other way, but you could reduce him to a snivvelling wreck just by showing him a pic of a clown.

Of course, Steven King's "It" didn't help rehabilitate clowns either. And that awesome one that the Chems use in their live show: "You are aaallll my children nowwwww!" Shudder. :)

[lloyd]

That was SO cool yeah, like it was looking direct at you. Top graphics.

[lloyd]

Did you see the elephant Karl? I saw something about it at Perou's diary (http://www.perouinc.com/diary/?date=2006-05-06). I wish I had been in London this weekend... I love this kind of spectacle street preformance. I was in Brussels today tho, there was a streetfair and a little parade of strange creatures too.
Pic 1 (http://static.flickr.com/48/142341430_6d7deb911c_o.jpg) Pic 2 (http://static.flickr.com/54/142341431_cbd00908d8_o.jpg)

edit: I see you did :)
For people in Belgium, Holland and others that want to see it. Royal de Luxe will visit Antwerp, Belgium, July 6th to 9th with this preformance.

[lloyd]

Yes I remember the Shangri-Las. I think I did hear Leader of the Pack for the first time while in the back of my parents car when driving from Eindhoven in the south to Den Helder in the north of the Netherlands visiting my granddad. Quite a journey back in the early 70's. The atmosphere in that song still hunts me to date. I didn't understand the lyrics back then ofcourse, but still...

[Lou]

Michael Rother - 01 Energy it up (Part 1) 4:58
now why does that sound so familiar?

[lloyd]

Took a little search, first thought it were the Ronettes...
But it's the Crystals :D
Found a stack of 60's records Karl?

I love the effect in the first picture!

[mmm skyscraper]

or S-P Bridge (Snake to Penne?)

Is 'ablt' short for ability?

cool little song

[holden]

or S-P Bridge (Snake to Penne?)

Is 'ablt' short for ability?

cool little song

Um, yeah. Wait, what? Oh! i see now;)

Ask and you shall receive Thanks UW!

[potatobroth]

or S-P Bridge (Snake to Penne?)

Is 'ablt' short for ability?

cool little song


what? 8910

[stimpee]

New Sofia audio and Budapest video at uwlive.com!

[potatobroth]

awesome!

(i still dont get the s-p thing)

[mmm skyscraper]

awesome!

(i still dont get the s-p thing)

King of Snake to Lenne Penne bridge

edit: sounds like Shake That Higher is the next song in the set

[potatobroth]

omg. i totally missed that there were updates to the AUDIO section. i misread and only saw the video updates. :D

[TheBang]

edit: sounds like Shake That Higher is the next song in the set
Yes, the D+L video released earlier confirms that. And from that same video, the next track after Shake That Higher is NUXX.

[lloyd]

I see the door of the vault is left open! One of rick's cdr boxes is peeking out.
The wealth of unreleased/unfinnished/try-outs and extras in there... *drool* ;)

[holden]

or S-P Bridge (Snake to Penne?)

Is 'ablt' short for ability?

cool little song

"d's ablt" or "S-P Bridge" sounds a LOT like "Moroccan Meatballs", as far as i can tell.

[mmm skyscraper]

I see the door of the vault is left open! One of rick's cdr boxes is peeking out.
The wealth of unreleased/unfinnished/try-outs and extras in there... *drool* ;)

Imagine if this was on ebay. What a tease of an image.

[BrotherLovesDub]

i would pay to hear the Twist demo mixes. i wish they'd do a proper live recording of that song or another mix with the guitar to the front like the live versions.

[Bargo]

Oh god, that picture in today's update. I so want to go rifling through that box as well. :D

[change]

I'm with you guys, that would be WAY too much fun to hear the goodies in that box. Days of fun.

[Sean]

Seems like my downloads on UnderworldLive have disappeared. Anyone else missing their Pizza For Eggs or Lovely Broken Thing when they log in? Don't want to miss out on my freebie because my first two purchases disappeared when the third riverrun installment gets released.

[spacefish]

Anyone else missing their Pizza For Eggs or Lovely Broken Thing when they log in?

No problems here with Firefox 1.5.0.3. Both showing on my page.

[Lou]

my deepest sympathy on your loss

[yulathh]

am wondering where the tracks 14 to 18 are ? (http://www.underworldlive.com/index/archive/audio/audio-2005/audio-sophia-2005.html)

I can see tracks 1 to 13 but where is the end of the concert?

thanks

[BeautifulBurnout]

The band don't put all the tracks up at once. They have been releasing them two or three at a time since the new website was initiated last year. So we will get them eventually, without a doubt.

And welcome! :)

[TheBang]

Patience. :)

and welcome!

[lloyd]

Hmms new bands... I like Stash a lot, 'new' belgium band. Their single Sadness is brilliant. http://www.stash.be

[Dirty0900]

Listen to d_dradio on distraction records Karl, very nice relaxing music or if you want to rave away, listen to Eboala on Wrong Music.

[BrotherLovesDub]

Unforgotten by Marshall Watson is pretty slick!

the new James Holden mix of Madonna - Get Together is ace
new Junior Boys disc has moments of absolute beauty
Booka Shade - Movements is phenomemal straight through

new dj set by me + professor isn't too shabby either...see if you can spot Cool Kids of Death, Like A Motorway, Schmoo Steppin Razor and Zion Train remixes along with yaz, new order and a slew of deep and minimal grooves!
http://www.marshallwatson.net/music/EchoJams.mp3

[dubman]

been hearing:

Junior Boys - so this is Goodbye - as detatched and hurt and beautiful as the last one

Boxcutter - oneiric - sublime atmospherics at play here. gorgeous.

Buffalo Daughter - Euphorica - a nice progression from 'new rock' and less 'I' involved. which is neither a good or bad thing, just saying they're baring the teeth a little more. more layered, more funk'd rock. always eccentric.

Brendon Small - Home Movies - CD that came with the dvd of all the songs that were ever on the show. you ever see the show? the single best thing to ever grace television.

Broken Hearted Dragonflies - cant say i'm "grooving" to this, but it's worth a mention. when large groups of dragonflies come to mate, the males that inevitably get left behind increase their mating call to a higher and higher pitch until their chests literally burst open. this is the sound of that. it sounds like robots pushed to a point until something goes noticeably wrong and then it sputters out. now imagine about a hundred of that. quite a trip.

spank rock - yoyoyoyoyo - scott called this the album of the year back in februaury. well, he's not far off.

technasia - popsoda - we all know about that by now.

[holden]

.

Brendon Small - Home Movies - CD that came with the dvd of all the songs that were ever on the show. you ever see the show? the single best thing to ever grace television.
this the album of the year back in februaury. well, he's not far off.


Seconded! The guy's just amazingly talented... the songs are all sorts of styles, with witty lyrics. Not sure if they're on the DVD's disk, but he wrote a song called "Don't Put Marbles in your Nose" that has to be heard to be believed. Also, a rock opera about Franz Kafka. Just hilarious! The show wasn't bad, either...lotta heart for a cartoon.

[crank]

Do you think Karl or Rick will ever respond directly to the threads or to the boards?

crank!

fav. quote: "hmmm... we are dogless"

[dubman]

the songs are ALL on one cd. so yes, that does include kafka... even the hot dog song.

dont kill children!
dont run them over!
let them live their lives!
let them get older!

:D

[lloyd]

Do you think Karl or Rick will ever respond directly to the threads or to the boards?

Karl's msg at uwlive are so criptic sometimes you never can tell ;)

[froopy seal]

So, no heavy-beats techno?


this release explores a darker, moodier side to underworld [...].

[Stephen]

Ah shit! Karl seems to have been in Birmingham of late. Lovely grainy photo of our very own New Street station (which is utterly fucking horrible in general) up today. Should have PM'd me buddy! I would have made tea and all sorts of good shit!

[dubman]

i love "in white rooms"
the whole album is pretty good in that "just make a decent tune" way, but that's probably the best cut next to mandarine girl.

you should maybe look for ascii disko's new one "alias" (Baphomet is fantastic)
or ricardo villalobos' "achso" ep

def. recommend these if you like 'movements'

[lloyd]

Nice link today at uwlive http://www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic/default.htm
Besides the Tan Dun broadcast Karl linked it for, there are 2 radio docu's about the history of the synthensizer with interviews with Bob Moog and Wendy Carlos etc etc

[lloyd]

The beard is sexy, dunno about the belly tho ;)
And euh.. morris dance music? Hmms, I only can hope there's enough cowbell in it!

[votingfloater]

Dunno about cowbell, but plenty of claves...

Intruiging post today. Maybe UW will go acid croft on us.

[Lou]

"a complete change in musical direction"

again :p:D

[lloyd]

Now even footy on uwlive?
If you don't like the game there seems NO escape :(

[stimpee]

Now even footy on uwlive?
If you don't like the game there seems NO escape :(grumpy old git ;) 1 billion people the world over watch the World Cup...

[sanakan]

grumpy old git ;) 1 billion people the world over watch the World Cup...

and that's how many who don't watch it??

[//\/\/]

Now even footy on uwlive?
If you don't like the game there seems NO escape :(

yes there is - stay at home in the dark while the rest of the world enjoys itself! :rolleyes:

that poster's good; but there's a white-on-red coca cola one reading 'love' which is excellent!

[lloyd]

Stay at home in the dark? LOL!! All those women that get bored by their husband/friend who is watching that dull 'sport' (it isn't a real sport ofcourse, it dosn't involve engines and petrol) + their friends who don't like it either, are fair game while visiting the movies and bars for a full month! The city will be full of women on a mission :)

[dubman]

even my dad... a functionally american, american-football-and-basketball, nacho producing, george-foreman-meat-grilling man has succumbed to this nonsense and entered MONEY into this.

i come home to find out he's betting on france, czech, and iran.
i'm all like "what"

dude doesn't even watch hockey and he's jumping to soccer.

[stimpee]

Stay at home in the dark? LOL!! All those women that get bored by their husband/friend who is watching that dull 'sport' (it isn't a real sport ofcourse, it dosn't involve engines and petrol) + their friends who don't like it either, are fair game while visiting the movies and bars for a full month! The city will be full of women on a mission :)lloyd: this aint the dutch premier league we're talking about. its the world cup. leave all your predjudices behind and watch the world's best players. if you dont like it we can always play a new sport together. it invloves me pouring petrol all over you and setting fire to you while revving a hairdryer (that should fix your engines/petrol fetish) ;)

[Lou]

incredibly beautiful proza on today's link
one phrase reminded me of this: why would one need so many words to explain a painting? or any work of art for that matter?
don't talk, just art :D

[crank]

New Romantics?!
Wow. I didn't know you guys fell into that "category"

Hope you enjoyed reminiscing!

Crank.

[big screen satellite]

New Romantics?!
Wow. I didn't know you guys fell into that "category"

Hope you enjoyed reminiscing!

Crank.


haha yeah - you should see the back of the Freur vinyls....!!!

nice frilly shirts... and hats

i'd love to get hold of some of those tapes... WOW :eek: :eek:

(one key element i used to find in a lot of NR stuff was saxophones...)

someone needs to add Freur to that list of New Rom performers on Wiki... :)

[lloyd]

Pic of the underneath the radar video is on my blog
http://kwiebusch.blogspot.com/2005/08/just-in-40.html
I think he did wear this frilly "fop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fop)" shirt again in luxemburg... ;)

[crank]

Lloyd,
How classic is that?!

Thanks for sharing. Karl back in the day!
wonder how Rick looked?

Crank!

[lloyd]

Rick: I Vocoder (http://members.home.nl/lloyd/PDVD_011.BMP).

[King of Snake]

and he's playing a "SMITH 1" !!! :D lol!

[Lou]

i totally love Boccioni's paintings as well
here is ONE (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/f/futurist/soccer.jpg) of them (which should interest about every one here except Lloyd :D because it's Boccioni's image of a soccerplayer :p)

[rayray]

I've been waiting for that post more than I've been waiting for the foot to arrive - nicely said.

[crank]

Quite Elegant Karl.
Quite Elegant.

[Dirty0900]

Very typical cryptic message today:)

[BeautifulBurnout]

Not all that cryptic really, particularly the "want more?" with the clickety to the Wikipedia page on Splott. I guess he approves of this... (http://www.dirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3758)

"Kraftwerk and dub were two passions that united us when we first met, and dub still does it for us, goes all the way back to the early eighties, driving up the M4 through the night to Cardiff in a borrowed Datsun, recalling midnight memories of Splott, John Peel on the radio......marvellous.".

Found a reference here... (http://www.love2party.nl/article/article.asp?art_id=2457) s'ok it's not all in cloggy language :p

[crank]

I think it's also referring to their "new romantic" phase. no?
:)
crank!

[crank]

This is a favorite:
I'm not typically a conspiracy buff, but man it sure does question some things...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023320890224991194

[lloyd]

http://orange.blender.org/
Elephants Dream, first movie made with open source software only.

[rayray]

in the same vein as the smitthsons - a nice little web article on modernism
in the land of the three lions - enjoy. It has a lot of projects that i've never seen before.

http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=40475_0_23_0_C

[BeautifulBurnout]

Whoah! That poem caught me right in the guts on today's page. I often defend youths. I hate doing it, not cos they don't deserve a good defence, or because they are difficult to deal with, but because the entire Youth Justice system is stacked against them - who will believe the word of a kid against an adult? - and it breaks my heart to see a kid of 15 with his hoodie and his baseball cap coming to the end of the road in terms of Youth Offending Programmes, who has fallen into the system and can't get out of it... and to hear him say to me "Yeah, well...I'm pleading guilty even though I didn't do it cos I will get found guilty anyway. I don't give a fuck if they send me to Feltham. I've got some mates in there - they're doing alright."

Well their mates in Feltham are not doing alright. They will come out scarred, abused and tormented, and hating the "system" that put them there even more than before. The only difference is, for most of them, it will just have made them "harder".

Someone said something very cynical to me the other day in the Family Courts - "you need to take good care of the clients in these dysfunctional family cases - the drunken fathers, the beaten mums. Cos you will end up with their kids as criminal clients one day".

:(

[m.g.]

In my Resident Advisor newsletter today, I found this nice & long interview of Mr Karl Hyde himself...

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature_view.asp?ID=751

Please enjoy... ;)

[mmm skyscraper]

In my Resident Advisor newsletter today, I found this nice & long interview of Mr Karl Hyde himself...

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature_view.asp?ID=751

Please enjoy... ;)

This article will be available to all non-registered users
at 08:00 on Friday, June 30, 2006.

[m.g.]

This article will be available to all non-registered users
at 08:00 on Friday, June 30, 2006. Ooops... i forgot that you needed to be registered to be able to read that... not very difficult to register there btw... and Friday, June 30, 2006 08:00 is not too far anyway...

[Jan]

'Delta Tokyo'
lol... :D thanks for the link!

[crank]

Yes thanks.
Great article. Just whets my appetite.

crank!

[dubman]

We're going to put out another 2CD live album because the first one did terribly well.

err... okay, then

[lloyd]

Members archive at UWlive has been updated with 5 Sophia and 2 Zurich videos.
Thnx boys!

[King of Snake]

whoever is responsible for the encoding of the vids: these zurich vids are suffering a lot of artifacts in the video and skipping in the audio on my computer. You might want to check that.

[holden]

Members archive at UWlive has been updated with 5 Sophia and 2 Zurich videos.
Thnx boys!

Note that there are 5 new audio tracks for Sophia, so that show is now complete.

What a nice surprise! And the Misterons Mix is but a week away! :)

[mmm skyscraper]

A little bit of "I Love You Because" by Leon Payne at the beginning of Jumbo, although it's not exactly the right lyrics.

[stimpee]

Members archive at UWlive has been updated with 5 Sophia and 2 Zurich videos.
Thnx boys!Has anyone else noticed that the Sofia show is 128kbps/48kHz and the Benicassim is 128kbps/44.1kHz? Just a thought.

[TheBang]

The Nu Train video from Zurich hasn't been properly flattened. It contains a reference to an external MP3 file, so it does not open correctly.

[King of Snake]

hmmm, seriously, the people encoding this stuff need to get their act together. I mean of course it's free and all but it would be nice to have some consistency and for things to actually work properly.

I'll happily do it for you, UW team :)

(btw. the nutrain video plays normally here, except for the skipping audio and video artifacts)

[stimpee]

hmmm, seriously, the people encoding this stuff need to get their act together.well, im sure there are other factors at work here.but yes if they need someone to do this stuff for them then I do this kind of thing all the time and I volunteer my services :) i do seem to be the one noticing these anomalies...

(guys: just email me at steve at dirty dot org ;))

[Jan]

It surprises me that noone seems to notice those ugly gaps between tracks caused by the inferior MP3 codec they use (itunes?).
The Blue Mountain gig is a good example for this. The track transition are completely screwed up. Switching to something better would also improve the perceived quality noticably.
I suggest the LAME codec (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME), which proved to be the best MP3 codec available. (something like 'lame -V5 --vbr-new [input] [output]' would do what they want --> ~130 kbps). A mac version is available, too. With a gapless player like foobar2000 or winamp, there will be no gaps anymore!
For the Riverruns, they could reencode their material with '-V2 --vbr-new', which gives about 190-200 kbps on most material (it is VBR). People moaning about the quality of the Riverruns should be satisfied with that.

For videos, i recommend x264 (http://x264.nl/), which is considered to be the best video codec so far. In combination with the easy to use GUI MeGUI (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96032) and the free Nero AAC encoder (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=44275&hl=), this thing is better than everything else. 160x120 at 10 fps hurts my eyes! IMO 320x240 at 25 fps without much artifacts plus good sound quality should be easily possible.

but yes if they need someone to do this stuff for them then I do this kind of thing all the time and I volunteer my services :) i do seem to be the one noticing these anomalies...
I'll happily do it for you, UW team :)
awww come on, you just want to snatch the lossless versions... :D

[Lou]

moan moan
things can always be better faster quicker ETC, but also worse, e.g. no more free releases
doh!

[Jan]

yep, you are probably right... :)

[Lou]

;) for a change, maybe i am :p

:D

[BeautifulBurnout]

Boys and their toys. :p

We need to bear in mind that it is that very same geeky attention to detail that has enabled us to have some fantastically good quality "unofficial" free stuff over the past year - *cough rtsr cough*. Without these kinds of skills we wouldn't have the lovely Dirty Summer Compilation either. So in that respect I think it is a little unfair to expect those very same people to have lower standards when it comes to sound/video quality simply because it is an official release. I don't think UW would get the hump as a result of this.

And it keeps them out of mischief. Mostly. ;)

There have been far far worse moaning sessions on here in the past, yet the band know we are grateful for everything they do. I am very grateful for all the free stuff we have been given over the past year. The Misterons Mix is a delight. Thank you :)

[crank]

Karl if you are looking to unload a tomato book you can unload one on me!
crank!

[big screen satellite]

wow... they still have that U2 Collab... and the video too

i wonder if we will see a snippet of it on the uwlive site...

/me hopes!

[lloyd]

Karl you TEASE!!
'ohw yeah, between words, we made a videoclip of it too'
I think it's time we team up with the Bonobo fan club and write a petition to get it out of the vault ;) Telling them would stir some things up at their board I guess: 'unknown Bonobo video, singing in the streets of Romford during UW collab'.

Just kiddin'!

[aNt]

i'll compress the lot as 3gp files! that'll sort it :) muhahahaha...

the achive is stuff as it comes- just get it out there- its the fun for the web innit... sweet... its going to get odd over time, we love it!

[lloyd]

I agree. the interweb is great for archive stuff, specially outside of a record comp. no salesdirector who thinks that 'this could hurt sales of regular releases' etc

[crank]

And there's NO WAY U2 would allow that Moaner thingy to be released would they?