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All things Underworld and Dirty were certainly not the first with these things but we were definitely part of first wave of noteable artists and sites offering alternative broadcasts and distribution. The MP3 free download of "Kittens" before 'Beaucoup Fish' was released was one of the first big free downloads of music and was written up in Time Magazine along with Prince's efforts in the field at the time. Dirtyradio has been streaming since the late 90's. Etc. etc.

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Underworld provided some music that was used by NVA during Stormy Waters, a live spectacle in Liverpool in 1995. This was the first time in the EU that something like this was broadcasted over the internet (Mbone).
http://www.nva.org.uk/stormy/index.html

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.... and what a lush webcast it was too, it seems. I didn't catch it, but there is a youtube here.

Nice work. :)

Although this is more a Lemonworld, not a Cocoon or Makuhari, as such. Which is my point, I think :p

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^ youtube's basically a second compression. a cleaner version is on current TV. i think i heard they're pulling it down after the 30th or something, so watch while it's still up.

here.

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Yeah, I was going to mention ISDN as well. They basically set up ISDN connections to places they were playing and had live video/audio feeds into the venue - an idea that I think is awesome, and would love to see done again.

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I wonder why that never really took off?

I mean - it surely would be much much much easier to do ISDN type shows nowadays than back then, right?