Underworld 1992-2002, compilationrelease date: Nov. 3, 2003
format: 2 cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: Underworld; Rick Smith
label: JBO / V2 - nationality: Wales, UK
2 cd retrospective compilation by Underworld is the band's first official collection of early singles of electronica. "Bigmouth" and "Dirty" are two tracks released for single release in '95 by Lemon Interupt, which was an early alternative name for Rick Smith, Karl Hyde and Darren Emmerson - they also went by the alias Steppin' Razor to distinguish their music from the rock and new wave-oriented music by Underworld on its first two albums before settling with the former band name for Smith and Hyde. Emmerson guided Hyde and Smith into the world of techno and electronica, and after Emmerson's departure in early 2000, the two founding members continued releasing music as an electronic duo.
A nice thing about Underworld 1992-2002 is that it contains several non-album tracks such as "Rez", "Spikee", and "Born Slippy.NUXX" but also that the songs have been listed in what appears as chronological order, which seems to distinguish this from the 3-disc compilation 1992-2012 The Anthology from 2011. Disc 1 represents an early period of experimentation with techno, whereas the second disc comes showcase the band at its height of progressive house and what then was known as 'rave' - later labelled breakbeat and downtempo.
