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Post by Dale Cooper on Aug 24, 2018 8:37:40 GMT
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Post by jimmyjrg on Aug 24, 2018 11:07:05 GMT
I collected a stack of photos from the HMV launch on my Wiki here. Lavelle and Shadow DJed leading up to the midnight launch, and Futura created a live painting. Such a fantastic album, and it never grows old listening to it again and again. You guys were probably all there when it launched ;P but I found out about the album probably in 1999 when my uncle lent me his copy because I was in to the Beastie Boys and Mike D was on the album. I'd been aware of Rabbit In Your Headlights, and was a fan of DJ Shadow, but I don't think I had the album until that day. Also a shoutout to Unkle77! The fansite helped keep me interested in Unkle and I believe I downloaded a copy of Lavelle's Cream mix which was amazing. I think it's fantastic that there's been such a strong fanbase all these years and it's all because of one album  |
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Post by Kee on Aug 24, 2018 13:16:08 GMT
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nick1972
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Post by nick1972 on Aug 24, 2018 13:56:52 GMT
Hmmmmm a Special Edition/Directors Cut “Coming Soon”
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Post by Dale Cooper on Aug 24, 2018 14:09:46 GMT
Hmmmmm a Special Edition/Directors Cut “Coming Soon” Yes, but it's exclusive to the Kickstarter backers. |
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Post by Bester on Aug 24, 2018 15:30:50 GMT
Hmmmmm a Special Edition/Directors Cut “Coming Soon” When is the 30th anniversary? |
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Post by Kee on Aug 24, 2018 15:39:04 GMT
Hmmmmm a Special Edition/Directors Cut “Coming Soon” Yes, but it's exclusive to the Kickstarter backers. I suspect this goes beyond Kickstarter but it would be nice to know if there is a difference between KS and any 'limited' re-release |
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Post by Bester on Aug 24, 2018 17:10:58 GMT
Yes, but it's exclusive to the Kickstarter backers. I suspect this goes beyond Kickstarter but it would be nice to know if there is a difference between KS and any 'limited' re-release Doesn’t the KS version come with an exclusive 7”? |
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Post by Timo Fett on Aug 24, 2018 18:26:25 GMT
Never, Never, Land is better.
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Post by kocomputer on Aug 26, 2018 17:25:41 GMT
Never, Never, Land is better. Indeed. Where do I enter my card details for the super-directors-cut NNL re-issue?? (none of us own enough copies of that album already). If James gets payment now, Sept 2023 for the 20th anniversary should be (almost - but not quite) do-able  Frankly, I have been listening to PF properly for first time in ages this weekend. Still has so many moments of genius. |
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Post by Timo Fett on Aug 27, 2018 13:33:14 GMT
I remember being so excited about the release of Psyence Fiction.
If I remember rightly, the release had been delayed somewhat (if you can believe that!!!), but there'd been a lot of noise about it in the music press, radio etc, and I was already well into 'trip-hop' by that point too.
I think tracks like Rabbit... and Lonely Soul had already been played on the radio.
I got my GCSE results, then went straight into town to get the album from the CD stall in the market. Got it home, listened to it and felt a bit... disappointed. Not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I got.
It certainly grew on me with time though, and there are some phenomenal tracks on there, but I could never really shake the idea that it was never what I thought it would be.
Never, Never, Land, on the other hand, did blow me away with the first listen, and then still grew from there.
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Post by evil:cat on Aug 28, 2018 3:20:26 GMT
I remember feeling disappointed because I’d hoped for a mix of bombastic late 90’s rock, Shadow instrumental hip hop, and traditional early Unkle - they put Berry Meditation our only a year prior and back then we had no idea what was recorded when. My expectations were even higher because I’d heard the Cream 2 mix. The Family Tree poster didn’t help, name checking Latyrx for example, who did some background voices. Mike D’s Track was downright embarrassing. And I fucking hated Rabbit. Since it came at the end, it really kind of ruined the album for me. Later I heard Axelrod’s remix, and that’s still the only version of that song I like, excepting the remix on DADOEB. This was when I realised that when it comes to collaborations, usually the Lavelle remix of an existing track is better than the collab track that same artist records with Unkle.
It wasn’t all bad, of course... Be There was astounding, but we had to wait 6 months to hear it. The Scratch Perverts live shows we great. Ever since, it’s seemed like the ephemera surrounding UNKLE albums beats the actual records. I usually ended up putting a Minidisc together with my edit - I think for PF I substituted the instrumentals of The Knock and Rabbit, and out Be Thee in place of Unreal.
And NNL is their best, easily. Still backed the Kickstarter though...
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Post by the fuhz on Aug 29, 2018 23:17:01 GMT
My experience was a bit different here in the states. We weren't hit over the head with the high level of promotion that it got in the UK. So when it was released, the feelings were untainted by the build up hype it had received.
Having loved Endtroducing, I was hoping that an instrumental version would be released. Not that I didn't like the vocals, but it was Shadows drum programming that I was paying attention to.
I also remember not being able to play the record at a party. This was due to the collage nature of the album, each track being different than the next was too jarring for most people. Not really a party record anyway.
Still love it to this day.
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