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Underworld

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 Boys Own party in 1993 or Two Months off on an Ibiza terrace ten years later. They've been pioneers for 3 generations of clubbers and music fans, and those of us who've seen them live will never forget the experience.

To celebrate this landmark achievement, JBO/V2 recently released 'Anthology 1992 - 2002 - a double CD of their greatest records.

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Anthology doesn't just tell Underworld's story. 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.

Here, for the sake of argument, is Underworld's Underworld moment. It was August 1996 and Japan's first ever 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 18,000 clubbers, countless flying scarab beetles and a single security guard to the summit of the volcano. "It was a real buzz to be offered these extraordinary places to play music," remembers Karl Hyde. "The slopes of Mount Fuji, a beach in Norway, a Roman amphitheatre in the south of France... We were a live band doing what a lot of DJs had done up to that point. We were part of that crossover."
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