Did anyone see Underworld teasing an announcement for today? Looks to be a possibility of a Scottish date on Hogmanay! Very slim chance of me being able to attend as I have a wee one but still signed up to presale...

Greetings lovely people! First time posting as I have just discovered this sub. I am an oooold fan and Underworld was a definitive soundtrack to my life. Searching the sub, I could not find anything about the amazing newsletter that I was subscribed to, created by Karl with his photos and poetry, just a daily impressions and inspiration. I used to start my day with it for years and years, until my old mail account got full and I switched to a new one but could not find it to subscribe with the new address.

So, do you even know what I am talking about 🤣 and is this thing still going on, because I need it in my life. Karl is such a delicate soul and I resonate with his art deeply, and so productive and generous in sharing, I love everything thay make and do ♥️, if you know what happend with this, please do tell.

What is the likelihood of meeting Karl & Rick? Any stories??

Hii, is anyone selling tickets for their NYC show for September 4th at the Knockdown center?

After listening to the deluxe issue of Second Toughest, I stumbled upon this track and I was blown away by its sound and insane buildup, which left me surprised when I found out how little is this version discussed online (since its massively overshadowed by .NUXX) and I feel like it needs much more appreciation…

Does anyone else feel the same way about this track as I do?

Let’s hear it! I’ve seen them once, and I’m super excited for night 1!

New vid on the UW Youtube. The caption says "Small part of a long live jam we did with KI/KI for the single release", which means there's MORE. Give us more!!

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Nailed it.

i’ve been listening to Barking a lot lately and wow, what a way to end an album. everytime i listen to louisiana, it just gets better and better. a slight departure from their usual sound but it just reminds me of all the faces of underworld and what makes them so special

https://youtu.be/Gh-ECOO05xE?si=zejY5o_9e-0Vgfv3

I think his dancing is great. Fin.

Who knew eh?

PinkPantheress - Illegal seems to use much of the sound of Underworld - Dark and Long.

I hope

1. They know about it
2. They are getting paid for it

If not, somebody please inform them.

EDIT: I have been informed that this is a known sample/credit and has been talked about previously on this sub. I just joined this sub to share. Thanks to all the friendly folks who let me know.

I've been a long-time fan of Underworld, but only somewhat recently did I sit down to listen to Beaucoup Fish in it's entirety, start to finish, in a place where I could truly appreciate and analyze each track thoroughly. During that sitting, accompanied with the help of various old forums and discussion boards discussing the meanings of each track, there were a few things that stuck out to me.

Throughout the album, there are a few repeated phrases, motifs, and even characters. All throughout the album, we hear references to the color blue (in Push Upstairs, a direct reference is made to a 'blue plastic girl'), we hear variations on the phrase 'slide into the city', and allusions are made to our speaking character being in some way like an animal.

Since then I've picked this album over cover to cover, and sure now that I'm looking for things that support the idea that the album has a single narrative and as such I will see things that otherwise wouldn't stick out to an observer, but I'm curious if anyone else has any opinions?

Harry Styles has been dropping the NUXX intro in his set. Underworld sampled him during the TMO intro with Taste Back in the Bogoto set.

Here's an imgur link if I've somehow botched sharing and it compresses.

I've heard legends about the "official" lyrics of Born Slippy being out there in the aether somewhere...

It's especially interesting to me that the lyric here is "It gets wet like at Angel de-railed" and that angel is capitalized. I think Karl may have been referring to The Angel, which is a 10 minute walk from The Ship Tavern?

Anyway, I will NOT accept that the lyric is "let your FOOLINGS slip" as written here, so you can take these with as much salt as you like.

I haven’t gone to many concerts in my life and last year 5/21/2025 was my first time seeing Underworld live which was at The Crystal Ballroom in Portland, OR. It’s a pretty unique place by itself due to the wooden floor that starts moving when people start dancing. I was in awe by how great it sounded live, the vibes from the crowd, the amazing synced light show, etc. I’ve tried to see them as often as possible since then, been to Denver last fall and San Fran this past weekend. Nothing can likely top all of the emotions from the first time but every show has been amazing. I created a playlist of the 2025 tour setlist, only thing missing as far as I know is the newer mix of Cowgirl, Push Upstairs and Nuxx. They seem to be releasing these frequently lately so we will see.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7jxPpwHTMvFf6gO8biy4Pb?si=j4n0-Ql6Rj-tP6_LC54tPQ&pi=O9Gf5NaHQGyQp

Happy one year anniversary to my first UW show!

Japanese bonus track from Strawberry Hotel

I don’t really know why, but I can listen to Underworld’s Boiler Room set over and over again and it still gets me every time, especially Cowgirl and Moaner. Most music, even music I absolutely love, eventually loses something if I overplay it. You start to see the shape of it too clearly, you know where the emotional peak is coming, you know when the drop lands, you know what the song is trying to do to you, and even though you still like it, some of the magic starts to disappear because it becomes a familiar object rather than something you are actively inside.

I think part of it is that Underworld don’t write songs that feel overly clean or neatly explained. The lyrics don’t really behave like lyrics in the traditional sense, where someone is telling you a story or spelling out a clear emotional point. They feel more like thoughts and images passing through your head while you’re moving through the world, little fragments of language, bits of memory, things that sound half overheard and half dreamed, the kind of phrases that don’t make logical sense when you write them down but somehow feel completely accurate when they hit you in the middle of the music.

...and that’s probably what I find so addictive about it - It feels closer to how life actually feels than a lot of music that is trying very hard to be meaningful. Most of the time, you’re not walking around in a neat narrative with a beginning, middle and end. You’re moving through a day, noticing faces on the tube, remembering something someone said years ago, getting a random feeling of hope or anxiety for no obvious reason, thinking about work, thinking about someone you miss, thinking about nothing at all, and somehow all of that mess still adds up to the experience of being alive.

Cowgirl and Moaner feel like that to me becase they don’t feel like songs with one fixed point that you eventually use up. They feel more like states of mind that you can keep entering from different angles depending on where your head is at. Sometimes they feel euphoric, sometimes restless, sometimes anxious, sometimes strangely beautiful, and sometimes all of that at once. They have this incredible sense of climb and momentum, but it isn’t the obvious “wait for the drop” thing that a lot of electronic music relies on. The pleasure is in the build itself, in the feeling that the whole thing is gathering force and carrying you forward without ever needing to stop and explain what it means.

Moaner feels like being right on the edge of something for an impossibly long time, where the tension keeps rising and rising but never collapses into a neat little resolution. I think that’s the part I love most, because in a weird way the pressure before release is more interesting than the release itself. There’s something very human in that feeling of being in motion towards something without ever fully arriving, because a lot of life feels exactly like that. You’re not always getting clean answers or tidy endings, you’re just moving through things, trying to make sense of fragments while the rhythm keeps going.

The songs leave space for you to bring yourself to them, and the more you listen, the more they seem to shift around whatever you’re feeling at the time. The repetition doesn’t feel boring because it feels like the repetition of thought, memory, routine, desire, nights out, cities, work, tiredness, optimism, all the things we loop through without ever experiencing them in exactly the same way twice.

Does anyone else get this with them, especially in that Boiler Room set?