Material in Progress

[Mike]

As Underworld fans, we are in the very unique position of Karl and Rick allowing us to hear pieces of work in progress and sharing the direction of projects that are currently 'unfinished'.

Personally, im glad that Underworld allow us to have access to this material, we used to love all the bits we got off Underworld Live back in the early days when they were a bit more private... one gem that springs to mind was the early verion of KOS.

However, playing devils advocate...

I was chatting to Yannick about how that the whole thing has possibly become 'watered down' in the sense that when we haven't heard any truly 'complete' material for sometime, although we have had the treat of a bunch of new tracks that are work in progress.

Does this 'spoil' any possible finished version of a track, as you could be disapointed in the direction the project went? Or the suspense / suprise when you listen to an album for the first time?

I remember when i used to chat to someone on these forums (you know who your are hehe) quite alot about new albums etc... and he made a very good point about new releases... he refused to listen to any 'leaked' or published material, because he felt he wanted to hear it through the cd in in the right environment.. how it was mastered, and how it was meant to be listened to so that he would appriciate the true quality of Underworld..

So i guess the poll, and discussion is:

Would you prefer to hear new material in progress?
or
Would you prefer to hear new matieral complete first (maybye years down the line), then how it sounded in progress later?
or
Would you be happy JUST hearing complete material, however long it takes?