[stimpee]

andy k - welcome to the forum. i dont agree with most of your post but thats besides the point.

i understand your frustration. however, 99.9% of the people have had no problems with the downloads, both the tokyo and osaka gigs have been broadcast on underworldlive.com and the Japanese exclusive track (the Paul Woolford remix) was also broadcast on Underworld's radio broadcast in full last weekend. The fans here have also managed to provide a method to separate the EP tracks into separate tracks without re-encoding.

Of course, I think we'd all like to be able to buy all this new material in the stores worldwide but that would require a lot more time and money and a for UW to sort out another distribution/record deal (probably). I don't think we would have got this new material if it wasn't being released in the method it is. As it is, we've got about 80mins of new material in the last 6 or 7 weeks. The Japanese market is massive for Underworld and I guess the JAL EP was an Electraglide promotional thing and the live CD an experiment that looks to have been successful with 7000 or so being sold at the Tokyo and Osaka gigs.

At least Underworld are releasing stuff. A lot of bands would just sit on this stuff and then release an album when they were ready. I can't think of any other band that has been so generous with its fans. We have been getting free stuff from underworldlive and radio shows from the band.

I'm sure I've said something like this in another post.. hmm. Anyway, I'm thankful. Maybe all these different methods of release are experiments. In the meantime, we are getting the tracks by fair means or foul. I think despite the frustrations, the majority of people here are just happy to have new Underworld to listen to.