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Originally Posted by Futuregrapher
Those things would never have been released / happened if Darren Emerson would have stayed in the band.
As much as I like Mr. Emerson, I love life when he's outside of Underworld.
AND we also have another Darren.
peace.
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It IS nice to have another Darren among the ranks, isn't it? Pricey seems like a very nice guy, with a taste for doughnuts and some awesome electro track productions!
Well, who knows if the sort of post-Emerson output could still have happened if Emerson had stayed. But yeah, Rick's quote from the interview does suggest they were looking for something a little less immediate dancefloor-and-forget-it, a little more, dare i say intelligent dance music (yeah, i know, UW is hardly classified as IDM in the general sense of the genre). Anyway, OWB was described by karl as "the album that Rick wanted to make", so they've clearly got the balance right.
Before we knew that the likes of "Aquafunk" or "Shake that Higher" were actually Price's compositions, i was intrigued with the new direction that UW was presumably taking - these tracks fit in great with their originals. So, i'm all for his extra hands and tracks behind the desk. As for Emerson, he seemed to add similar elements, if perhaps in a more conventional dance direction.