Underwater Episode V.1: Mixed By Darren Emmerson & Tim Deluxe [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 22, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Underwater
• ASIN: B00006CY6I
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,003,763 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Ya'self [Original Vocal Mix]

2. Without You

3. H20

4. Fly Shuttle

5. It Just Won't Do [Darren & Tim's Re-Dub]

6. That Latin Track

7. Capital Rocka

8. Orbeat

9. Yess

10. Bubbles

Disc: 2

1. Like This

2. Dance You Down [Mutiny Mix]

3. Acid Tricks

4. Keep Beating the Drum

5. Love Story [Tim Deluxe Remix]

6. Hungry

7. We All Love Sax

8. Mountains

9. Remember When [Djembe Beats]

10. Jungle

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh Sounds and beautifully sequenced, October 17, 2002

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"blhurry" (Flagstaff, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Underwater Episode V.1: Mixed By Darren Emmerson & Tim Deluxe (Audio CD)

For the past year I have been in that phase where you buy every new compilation that comes out if it even smacks of fresh entertainment and anyone who has been there knows that you might find something truly classic and timeless 5% of the time. Well people, this is it. The real gem in this two disc compilation is the first disc that starts out with what I'm inclined to describe as latin-funk although I really hate the word funk since it has this stigma of ridiculousness attached to it and disc one is anything but ridiculous. The disc is very upbeat and on the lighter side of sound until about song 6 where things take a turn for the more dramatic and poignant.

Let me see if I can put it into perspective a little better. I enjoy compilations that start off with one type of feeling and slowly song by song transform that feeling until the end result leaves the listener wondering how (s)he got to that new emotional state. Good movies of this type are Braveheart or Dances with Wolves. Good compilations of this type are Sasha's Ibiza Disc 1 (light house into heavy trance), Nick Warren's Brazil disc 2 (trancey breaks into melodic trance), Danny Howell's Nubreed (light tribal into moody house), etc. What I'm trying to describe is not the music itself but the sensations the listener receives when a compilation has in my opinion been successful.

My basic criteria for a good compilation are)
1) has to evoke emotion of some sort
2) has to have good carry (you never find yourself asking why did they put that track in there instead of being rightly absorbed in the sound) and you find yourself at the end of the album before you are ready for it to be over.
3) based on number 2 you can put the [cd] on repeat for 3-4 listens without getting sick of it
4) although intensely personal you find yourself wishing to share the music with a good friend

If any of this jives with your relation to music give this compilation a shot. To be quite honest I haven't even given the second disc a fair listen because I'm so hung up on the first.

And to those people that were turned off by Emerson's GU compilations, I HATED THEM TOO, but this is a completely different cohesion than in those compilations. Maybe Deluxe and Emerson have a good thing going. I'm looking forward to Episode 2

5.0 out of 5 stars Just Brilliant!, June 16, 2003

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Frederick Nubbins (another life) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Underwater Episode V.1: Mixed By Darren Emmerson & Tim Deluxe (Audio CD)

I have been an Underworld fan even before the film Trainspotting came out. Everything everything they put out just seemed to get better with time. After DJ Emerson left the group in 2000, I did not know what to do. Underworld's "100 Days Off" Album of 2002 still held its own against the rest of the contemporary techno out there, but it was lacking the substance and diversity that was more evident in the "classic" Underworld albums.

Episode 1 has laid to rest any fears that we'll be forced to look back to the 1990's for good techno. The diversity of the selection is mind blowing and the mixing is second to none. I am particularly fond Tim Deluxe's "We All Love Sax" and Smith and Selway's "Yes".

The first disc is a little bit more solid than the second, but that does not mean that you can't have a wicked session playing these two CDs back to back.

All in all a very reassuring reminder that good Techno is not dead in the 21st Century. The 1990's was just the beginning.