DIRTY EPIC IS STILL FUCKING AWESOME

[unwound floors]

Listened to this for the first time in awhile completely blazed in bed last night with this big, dumb grin on my face. I'd almost forgotten how good it is - an anthem for those cut loose, the uncertain, the nihilistic, the joyous. "I get my kicks on Channel Six", indeed!

[bazwint]

A monster of a tune... and what a way to start a show. I've been lucky enough to experience that twice. Nearly pissed myself with excitement.

[froopy seal]

Originally Posted by bazwint

A monster of a tune... and what a way to start a show. I've been lucky enough to experience that twice. Nearly pissed myself with excitement.

Aren't you embarrassed at all?









I mean, only nearly pissing yourself?

[stimpee]

They played it in Munich in 2008. I think a little bit of wee came out.

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by Jan

Wow, you're reminding me... I've had new headphones for some months now and still haven't fully listened to dubno!

Yeah, dubno is really quiet... so quiet that some audio players are playing it too quiet even when the volume is on maximum.
On most tracks (except maybe Dark and Long) there is wasted headroom of ~3db...
You can fix this by using Replay Gain and you will never need to touch your volume knob again. Of course this won't work if you're playing the CD.

Or find this version, it's "remastered".

I remember doing some tests with limiting, and most plugins are very good when doing it correctly. But transients (sharp sounds) always suffer, no matter how good the plugin is, because they need the headroom.

For example listen to Rowla or Confusion the Waitress: the "kick" of the kickdrum is very pronounced and awesome. Limiting would be very bad here...

Then for a bad example listen to Cups. Cups is meant to have a kick like that, too... but most of them are destroyed... On each snare hit the kick is noticably weaker. Or listen to around 7 minutes: there are almost no kicks left, only a muffled "thud".

Or Little Speaker... You can hear the limiting working if you listen to the kicks.

But yeah, Dirty Epic is awesome

http://www.discogs.com/Underworld-Du...release/211333

this is the real "remastered" version.

[bryantm3]

dirty epic... wow. i remember the atlanta show. i was late, and i walked in about two minutes into dirty epic. the place was flashing with lights and the whole room was covered in blue smoke... i got the chills then. i lost my CD copy of dubno so i just ordered a cassette. the only problem for me with dubno is the intro to cowgirl... i wish i could get a version that had the long version of cowgirl, but the full version of dirty epic with the thunderclap at the end. the single version cuts out about a second before the thunder.

[thee carp dreamer]

dirty epic live. yes. saw this phenomena at bristol academy, 2002, and the ripe old age of 14. i belted out every word, amazing.
i'm still waiting for the recording of that gig. mike, yannick, i'm looking at you two :P
i have a godawful recording of push upstairs from that gig, but frankly a recording of that quality is better than nothing.

also, dubnobass has a lot of headroom, but does not need a remaster...i'm getting annoyed with "remastered" albums being released that have merely been compressed. the examples i'm thinking of are lx-p's recent remastering of the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld, and of course iggy pop's truely horrible 1997 brick-wall remaster of raw power.

if you want to listen to dubnobass louder, turn the fucking stereo up.

[potatobroth]

ive seen Dirty Epic live a few times, the most notably being the Hammerstein Ballroom in 2002 (or around that time)?

The performed it with the swirling smoke tunnel and it was utterly fantastic.

[bryantm3]

Originally Posted by thee carp dreamer

also, dubnobass has a lot of headroom, but does not need a remaster...i'm getting annoyed with "remastered" albums being released that have merely been compressed. the examples i'm thinking of are lx-p's recent remastering of the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld, and of course iggy pop's truely horrible 1997 brick-wall remaster of raw power.

if you want to listen to dubnobass louder, turn the fucking stereo up.

hear hear!

[Andrea]

thank you for the touch
like a razor kiss my wound


Discovered the dubnobass album just a few days ago.
Love the music! In a way the beginning of Tongue reminds me of Wagner´s Das Rheingold - Prelude.