You can’t beat class ❤

The fact that they opened this masterpiece of an album with two 15+ minute epics will always be legendary 🙏

nothing like white boy raver music. this and born slippy were life changing and mind opening

These upscaled videos you’ve been uploading are utterly fantastic. It’a particularly amazing with the nore obscure clips like this one - they were so hard to find before, and the video quality was atrocious. It’s crazy what AI can accomplish with a bit of human guidance. Thanks SO much dude! 🙏

THIS ALBUM WAS WAY AHEAD OF IT'S TIME 👍

Thanks for this upload mate 👍 😊

Gloriously majestic. The best version I’ve ever heard. And the crowd absolutely ADORE it - the energy in that crowd must have been utterly electrifying ! 🙏

I wish they released a studio version of thIs track - “Sinple Peal” is utterly magnificent, but it has quite a different vibe to this version.

Anyone else have an inexplicable fondness for “Dun Shepherd”? When Rick & Karl embrace the experimental, the music that ensues is always quite striking, and if nothing else it’s at least guaranteed to be interesting. My only criticism of this album is “Monkwy Wink” - it’s single synth and rain sounds, and as such it would’ve worked fine as an interlude, but as legitimate 3+ minute segment.. I don’t know, I just feel like they could’ve filled that space with something a with a little more depth and progression.

It's hypnotic, understated, subtle, evocative... it’s insane to me that I was once indifferent to it. Always makes me envision some kind of mind-blowingly elaborate machinery, far in the distant future, rapidly constructing some unimaginably massive edifice, endlessly spiralling upwards into the sky. The entire album maintains that palpably futuristic, mechanical atmosphere.

Again and again and again and again

My Underworld conspiracy theory is that this EP, the “Phonestrap” EP and the largely-unreleased “Autotrader” EP were intended as the start of a series akin to the Riverrun trilogy, but for whatever reason they gave up on the idea and quietly released the two finished EPs with absolutely no fanfare. And then, every “Autotrader” track except for the 4th disappeared into the aether, aka discarded in a grungy cardboard box in the basement of Rick’s studio. The 4th “Autotrader” was hastily appended to the final part of “Phonestrap” - for some reason - and occasionally cropped up on Lemonworld broadcasts, while a spoken-word lyric allegedly intended for the 3rd part has also surfaced. Spooky! 😁

I’ve always wondered about the hypothetical “cut content” related to this quirky little EP. Firstly it has an indelible connection to the equally-forgotten “020202” EP, not only because of their chronological proximity but also because of their covert artwork’s identical layouts and themes. It’s as though they were intending to create a “series” akin to the subsequent Riverrun trilogy - it’s plausible that some material we now associate with Riverrun was originally a part of this speculative series. Secondly there’s the elusive “Autotrader” series - only the 4th instalment has ever been officially released, and in a rather unconventional fashion as part of the final track from this EP rather than as a standalone; it _has_ been played in various versions on several Lemonworld broadcasts, however. Additionally, the spoken-word vocals apparently meant for “Autotrader 3” also surfaced on Lemonworld. …but what’s become of parts 1-3 and any hypothetical parts beyond 4? My crackpot theory is that “Autotrader” was planned as the next EP in our untitled series, but for whatever reason it was scrapped and Riverrun emerged from its ashes. It’s also possible that other miscellaneous tracks from this era like “Swing Up High”, “Glitchy Beats”, “Telematic Peal” (the foundation upon which “Grace” was eventually built), or “Bang the Poll” (an early “JAL to Tokyo”) were also originally intended for this defunct series. That concludes this episode of Unsolved Underworld… see you next time, and always remember: you are, you are beauuutifuull! 😁🙏

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I was an absolute sucker for Dubnobasswithmyheadman and believed nothing could top that album, and then came Second Toughest in the infants… what a bombshell !!

Pioneers of electronic music. Nobody comes close So existential

I've been searching for this for ages. Thanks 👍

CSI MIAMI ❤❤❤

Fantastic!!!

Interesting, the beat from this was also used for the unreleased Lemonworld track called "Electro". It's such a shame they never finalised all the live-exclusive tracks from this era....

I am so Fking love this song ❤

I am lonely bollock... sometimes, happy bollock.

I love these 2. They made my 90s and my life so much better...

not bad for the 8tys a

Can you believe, I actually used to detest this track - like, with a sincere passion. I can't comprehend my prior thought process... because it's now a recurring addition to my weekly playlist, and I actually listen to it more than its club-tailored sibling - and honestly I kind of prefer it to "Upstairs", I guess I just generally favour the chill-out room over the frenetic dancefloor! 😁

The atmosphere suffused throughout this album is so indescribably eerie. It's like you've stumbled across a tape recorded by the last sentient being on Earth, a now-nonfunctional hyper-futuristic music-producing AI that, generations ago, soothed itself with dreamy pads and conversed aimlessly with no-one in a desperate attempt to stave off the bleak loneliness - the human race having been extinct for decades - while the vestigial, desolate cityscape around it steadily crumbles away... an unsettling scenario somewhat reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke's short story "There shall come soft rains". It's eerie and uncanny in ways that defy easy explanations.In other words it's bloody brilliant! 😁

Wow this upscale looks utterly spectacular! I remember watching this on Rage - an Australian music video programme - as a kid and being utterly transfixed... from that day onwards I was a dedicated Underworld obsessive. As soon as my parents got home I begged them to take me to the local record store, where we bought the "1992-2002" two-disc set.... and things would never be the same! It's still one of their most powerful tracks IMO. Karl's vocal is magnificent, he sings with an effusive passion here. And the production has so much depth to it, despite sounding simplistic. Thanks SO much for uploading this beautiful rejuvenation of a classic clip! 🙏💙

Underworld gay?

The best track from A Thousand Days Off and there's plenty of good ones too choose from that too. 👍 👌

14 years on love this track and love underworld ❤️ got me through some of the best of times and worst of times thanks and respect Karl and Rick! 👍

By far the best track on the initial release of "Barking"; the subsequent two-disc reissue massively enhanced the album. This track actually feels like Underworld, whereas the others on the original disc are far too diluted by the featured collaborators, sounding more like _their_ own tracks, with Karl merely on vocals and Rick's phenomenal production taking an undeserved backseat. I love the rhythmic layers of this track, particularly that insistent angular pulse that drifts from foreground to background throughout. A meticulously assembled piece of music, and it paid off in spades! 😁🙏

just found this. I had to check the date this was released, i just couldn't believe this was released in 2002. I'm crying to this thank you

NUXX .......

Hello, Zeth

Outstanding.

Jumbo blew my mind when I first listened to Beacoup Fish. It is, in my humble opinion, Underworld's best track.

Resonator resonator....

This track is ludicrously euphoric! Always pumps me up like crazy!!! 🙏 Imagine being in that crowd when the beat kicks back in after that first pad-laden drop - that would be some legitimately universal-human-tribe vibes man!!!

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Самый классный альбом!!! У меня на кассете, в день выпуска альбома купил!!! Просто шикарно!!! Даже сейчас слушается, как новый!!! Супер!!!

Watched you cry Watched you fly Watched you die

I am a huge Underworld fan, but my brain cringes every time there is that hiccup in the sample. It doesn't loop very well. Not everyone can hear it, apparently. If it was not for that hiccup, I would love it, but as it is now it hurts my brain.

Best part is 4:23!!!! Magical

Is it just me or does this song sound very menacing. It sounds dystopian.

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Whatta bass