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Underworld
Arena Riga, Riga, October 19, 2006 / Saku Suurhall, Tallinn, October 20, 2006
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Everyone who has lived and loved dance music in the last 15 years has had an UNDERWORLD moment. Maybe it was hearing Rez for the first time at a party in 1993 or Two Months Off on an Ibiza terrace ten years later.
It is not likely that one from Latvia has witnessed UNDERWORLD’s live triumph in August 1996 - Japan's first ever outdoor allnight dance event, the confusingly titled Futura 2000, was taking place on the slopes of Mount Fuji. UNDERWORLD headlined, facing up the slope over the heads of almost 20,000 clubbers, countless flying scarab beetles and a single security guard to the summit of the volcano.
Though most likely there’s a whole generation who’d feel shivers down their spines hearing the first chords of Born Slippy - originally released to minimal acclaim as a B-side, then immortalised in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, it became the soundtrack to the year. It also epitomised the contrasts and tensions, which have always defined UNDERWORLD: between those jackhammer beats and celestial chords, between the "lager lager lager lager" and the "dirty numb angel boy", between the geezerish and the godlike.
The shivers-down-the-spine is certainly a common feeling also among younger clubbers, when they’re exposed to Two Months Off - UNDERWORLD’s their most unambivalently celebratory song to date and became a fixture of the Ibizan summer.
Telling the UNDERWORLD's story isn’t just telling a story of an electronic dance music icon. It traces the narrative of dance music itself, from tiny, hard-to-find white labels and sweatbox clubs to Hollywood soundtracks and world tours. Wherever you may have checked in along the way, whichever period sends nostalgic shivers down your spine, chances are there was an UNDERWORLD track playing in the background: always evolving, never standing still.
It is not likely that one from Latvia has witnessed UNDERWORLD’s live triumph in August 1996 - Japan's first ever outdoor allnight dance event, the confusingly titled Futura 2000, was taking place on the slopes of Mount Fuji. UNDERWORLD headlined, facing up the slope over the heads of almost 20,000 clubbers, countless flying scarab beetles and a single security guard to the summit of the volcano.
Though most likely there’s a whole generation who’d feel shivers down their spines hearing the first chords of Born Slippy - originally released to minimal acclaim as a B-side, then immortalised in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, it became the soundtrack to the year. It also epitomised the contrasts and tensions, which have always defined UNDERWORLD: between those jackhammer beats and celestial chords, between the "lager lager lager lager" and the "dirty numb angel boy", between the geezerish and the godlike.
The shivers-down-the-spine is certainly a common feeling also among younger clubbers, when they’re exposed to Two Months Off - UNDERWORLD’s their most unambivalently celebratory song to date and became a fixture of the Ibizan summer.
Telling the UNDERWORLD's story isn’t just telling a story of an electronic dance music icon. It traces the narrative of dance music itself, from tiny, hard-to-find white labels and sweatbox clubs to Hollywood soundtracks and world tours. Wherever you may have checked in along the way, whichever period sends nostalgic shivers down your spine, chances are there was an UNDERWORLD track playing in the background: always evolving, never standing still.
