Underworld - Crocodile

[fyong]

Underworld are back. It's been along time in the making but after months in the studio and roadtesting around the worlds dance festivals, Underworld return with the soundtrack to your summer 'CROCODILE'. The styles change but the quality never drops and once again Rick and Karl unleash another anthem to stand along side "Born Slippy", "Two Months Off" & "Rez". With mixes from Pete Heller and Oliver Huntemann, this package is of the highest order. The album 'Oblivion With Bells' follows a week later and was recorded over 5 years in hotel rooms around the world, in Abbey Road Studios, in a back bedroom in Romford, a pig shed in deepest rural Essex and right now it feels that they've hit their target. Bulls-eye. They've given us one of their finest works ever! In these days of endless band reformations, avalanches of reissues and shamelessly repetitious 'creativity', too many artists are willing to sign away their soul for a little extra time on the career clock. Too many of them see artistic expression not as an end in itself, but as a shortcut to celebrity and are obsessed with their destination, rather than engaged by the journey. Too few of them, frankly, are like Underworld's Karl Hyde and Rick Smith. An incredible 27 years after their birth in Romford, Essex as a trio and 15 years after they pressed up their debut single (500 copies of the Balearic twofer, 'Mother Earth'/'The Hump'), Rick Smith and Karl Hyde are still enjoying the ride, grinning like kids as new vistas unfold before them. It's been a long and exhilarating trip – and it's not over yet. 'Crocodile' is the first heavyweight lifted from the long-awaited, fifth studio album, 'Oblivion With Bells'. Built from a vast palette of pieces they've been amassing since 2003, it reflects the stylistic promiscuity that always marked Underworld out from the pack, recalling Kraftwerk, Erik Satie, Can, Angelo Badalamenti, Laurie Anderson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Last Poets, Eno, Phillip Glass and musique concrète composers such as Pierre Boulez. It's definitely Underworld, but it's Underworld with a twist. 'Crocodile' is, put simply, Underworld at their best. Its warped and bittersweet melodies are all held together by a meld of percussive genius that's familiar but striving in new directions. Pete Heller has risen to the challenge as usual taking the track in more of a house direction, but keeping the textures alive and cleaning up the vocals. The result is a typically masterful reworking. Bremen's finest Oliver Huntemann excels with an emotive techno remix. He strips the vocal back too, giving the song a concise and direct structure and then he wraps it in a warm rolling bass heavy techno blanket. Late night business for the heads, and the connoisseurs alike. 'Crocodile' is conclusive proof that Underworld were never in any danger of being forgotten. That sound you hear is Karl Hyde and Rick Smith ringing in the new. Again.

[seno]

cool track

[Mario 78]

...mmm nih lg dibawain Sasha di Harwired tuh........

[dreamwalker]

lah.. kiraiiinnnnn underworld mo maen di indonesia

[jeng_kompen]

sadeesss....

[monique]

dan sedappp !!!

[wangchung]

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asli mantep banget man !!!