[BrotherLovesDub]

i've gone back and deleted my posts not on the subject of the article. it would be nice if the others would do the same and let's cut the cancer out of this thread and just focus on the content of the article. I feel like there are more important issues left to discuss re: UW in the year 2006.

How would the RRP's be perceived if they had been released under Mr. and Mrs. Christmas or some other pseudonym? Would the reaction be different if the artist name wasn't Underworld?

I don't believe Underworld have written tunes for a festival crowd since BF and i'd be surprised to know they actually cared when recording the tunes what they would sound like in front of 20K fans. With the exception of the AHDO gigs, UW change things up live and improvise, as we all know and love, so i don't think an album version gets crafted to suit a festival.

Am I a fan boy if I bought all the RRP's, barely listened to them, but want to support a couple guys doing something for the fans (releasing stuff on the cheap or free that would othewise go unreleased, making music to please themselves and still pushing the boundaries of their sound, having a semi-close relationship with the fans website and fan base in general? Well, if i am what you call a fanboy, so be it. I couldn't think of a nicer band to be fawning over. So what if I think their best ablum was released 13 years ago? I am happy to see them enjoying this stage of their career and respect the risks they've taken releasing ambient material digitally. The Breaking and Entering Soundtrack is gorgeous, btw. It's and ambient film score adn should be listened to with that in mind, but it's beautiful and evocative.

Or, I can just hop on the constantly changing Bandwagon of hipster music and bitch about UW for not writing Jumbo pt. 2 or another Born Slippy. Ultimately, the music you love when you're 16-25 is the music that will mean the most to you when you're 45. What Underworld have done since my fav. lp, Dubno, is not nearly as important to me as who they've become. I respect them as people and artists and look forward to hearing anything they decide to release. I may not always love it (see RRP, BF, half of AHDO) but i'll always have time to give it a chance.

That sentiment is where a review like Sherburne's doesn't reach. It is for the casual fan, but written from a voice of someone who is very familiar with their work. I believe Sherburne's knowledge of Underworld ends in 2002, precisely when the minimal techno trend started catching on worldwide. I don't believe he has the RRP's, the remixes, the Tokyo CD's or the inspiring Lemonworld shows or Cocoon set. Those things mark the direction of Underworld, not the album cuts on AHDO.

Along the same lines as the RRP's coming out under a pseudonym, if journalists would stop calling UW a techno act, the expectation of floorfillers and anthems would dissolve. UW are electronic musicians pursuing a different path to the one that made them famous. Not easy to do and pretty damn scary if you're used to earning a certain amount of money. I'd say, it's pretty damn repsectable too.

Has anyone seen Duckie? Wouldn't mind his opinion on the state of UW and the content of Sherburne's review.