Ring Road... next single...(?)

[holden]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

if this was mixed into a misterons radio set with no info given, people would be shitting themselves.

As in, the "brown noise"?

Agree that on the dancefloor, this could work, but how can it be called a remix since all it uses are poorly placed vocal snippets? As an original production, it sounds like a couple half-tracks smushed together. Associating it with UW is just wrong!

[BeautifulBurnout]

Just listening to this for the first time as I type. I love the intro (loves me minimal bumps and blops, I do).

My two penn'orth: this will really work well in a club. The build up to the second "put the world to rights, sit right back and watch it all slide by" break at about 5mins10 is gonna produce a massive hands-in-the-air moment if it is done properly.

Nice break-sy ending.

First listen nearly over, and I want to listen to it again now.

[BrotherLovesDub]

Originally Posted by holden

how can it be called a remix since all it uses are poorly placed vocal snippets?

welcome to post-1980s era remixes. where have you been?

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

i didn't expect to like this mix but i actually do like it. speed it up a few bpms and i can see it being pretty great on a dancefloor. pretty nice sounds imho. esp. the bit at about 4mins.

if this was mixed into a misterons radio set with no info given, people would be shitting themselves.

yep quite literally over the direction the remixes are taking with Underworld's good name on the line

[stimpee]

This sounds like some dance track LL had laying around with some UW samples badly bolted on. "a rush job". nice choice of sample. Its really nothing special at all, and without the sample no-one here who says they like it would be the slightest interested.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by stimpee

... and without the sample no-one here who says they like it would be the slightest interested.

I don't like it just because it is Underworld. I like it because I like it. You don't like it. Horses for courses.

The spoken sample could be from any other artist or poet, as far as I am concerned, as long as it had a similar impact. If it was "constructed" in the same way, I would like the tune, irrespective.

(Whether I would have heard it as quickly, or at all, if it hadn't been a remix of an UW tune is another matter.)

[Jason Roth]

Originally Posted by stimpee

This sounds like some dance track LL had laying around with some UW samples badly bolted on. "a rush job". nice choice of sample. Its really nothing special at all, and without the sample no-one here who says they like it would be the slightest interested.

Yup.

[joethelion]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

if this was mixed into a misterons radio set with no info given, people would be shitting themselves.

totally agree. The first time I listened to this mix, I was a bit 'ehhh'

but then when I was walking down to the printmaking studio, listening to the track on my headphones, it hit me like a ton of bricks - yea... this song IS actually pretty damn good!

I wanted to run back to my apt and try and use it in a mix, asap

like that part at around 5:30 where the beat comes back in = awesomeness

[holden]

Originally Posted by joethelion

totally agree. The first time I listened to this mix, I was a bit 'ehhh'

but then when I was walking down to the printmaking studio, listening to the track on my headphones, it hit me like a ton of bricks - yea... this song IS actually pretty damn good!


like that part at around 5:30 where the beat comes back in = awesomeness

Yeah, like all tunes, there will be some that you like, hate or grow on you. I can see how this is a grower, but i still think it's a crap excuse for a remix. Yes, many remixes are much different from their original, but they almost always contain some elements in addition to the vocal that make them recognizeable to listeners as derivatives of the original track. That's what, by definition makes it a remix. Mixing anew some of the tracks, whether subtly or quite dramatically. Maybe Luke has disguised it well, but other than the vocal, i can't detect anything from Ring Road... not the drums, not the melody, no hooks.
Also, i think this song makes an impression at 4:00 and 5:30 whatever, because it is so different from what came before, hence my comments that it sounds like a few half completed tracks put together. But that's just my opinion.

But i think the underlying issue here, as some have already mentioned above is, why another single backed with remixes, no indication of B-sides? Maybe we'll be surprised. But the Laidback Luke comment on "Remix EP" doesn't sound promising.

Please, UW, please include something fresh and new! At this point, it's the difference between buying an import (cos you'll hardly ever find the singles in the US shops) and not bothering.

[joethelion]

you see... I think Luke kinda went at this remix as if he was a member of UW, turning it into a different beast altogether. Like what they did with tracks such as "Dark & Long" and turned it into "Burts" or like "Born Slippy" -> "Deep Arch"

like, what I hated about pretty much all the remixes by other artists pre-River Run 12"-es was that, they pretty much only added a few frivolous stuff on top of the track, not really doing anything new