Okay already...now enough with the solo shit...get it together!

[myrrh]

Originally Posted by the mongoose

Although both are great diversions...neither Edgeland or Trance can touch shit like 'DIS:

Those were the days...

[the mongoose]

Deleted all my digital copies of all UW music...about to trashcan all physical discs. It has been a learning experience to be a follower of a talented band such as Underworld - but for now I feel I have truly and fully outgrown my need for most secular music I once enjoyed...UW included.

1 Corinthians 13
1If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,b but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

[potatobroth]

um what?

[jetpig]

To get back on to topics people (aside from the trollgoose) care about, karl mentioned new UW writing in yesterdays diary that was posted today! Hoorah! The light at the end of the tunnel is visible!

[potatobroth]

and a little gear in the back of my brain just clicked and started an imaginary countdown

[ultradave]

Originally Posted by jetpig

karl mentioned new UW writing in yesterdays diary

when I read Karl's post it brought some joy to my day as well.... "and I'm imagining..."

[jetpig]

What do y'all reckon? Announcement by end of year and album early next? Maybe some live shows to work some of the new material out? In the States? With 3 hour sets structured like the Experimental Sound Field with Karl's band mates and Eno? </pipe dream>

[holden]

Just my thoughts and preferences, not tied to any announcement:

"Barking" was probably UW's most populist album of the mkii/iii era, and though many of the collaborative productions are excellent, it doesn't always seem a "true"Underworld album for me. Then there are tracks like "Downpipe" that they played all the time live - how much of the production was UW and how much Knight and Ramirez? Add to that the structured setlist for live shows, and it all seemed a bit boring - certainly not the excitement of previous tours' evolving jams, or even the experimental/ambient album tracks.

Since then, the collaborations have continued - Danny Boyle, Brian Eno, Leo Abrahams, tech. folks at VW.

My hope is that Rick and Karl get together and do what they do best, just the two of them. At this point in their career, they can really do whatever they want, and who knows, it may be so different that it changes the face of electronic music, or signals a rebirth in their career. Not that either is needed....we just want new tunes!

p.s. some US shows would be great, too