- Audio CD (22 July 2002)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Underwater
- ASIN: B00006CY6I
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 218,194 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Ya'self - Mutiny | |||
| 2. Without You - Alex Gopher | |||
| 3. New Track - Darren Emerson | |||
| 4. Fly Shuffle - Ian Pooley | |||
| 5. It Just Won't Do - Tim Deluxe (Daz & Tim's Re Rub) | |||
| 6. That Latin Track - DJ Vitamin D | |||
| 7. Capital Rocka - Medicine | |||
| 8. Orbeat 1 - Daniel Vigorito | |||
| 9. Yess - Christian Smith & John Selway | |||
| 10. Bubbles - Vince Watson | |||
| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Like This - Loose Headz | |||
| 2. Dance You Down - Gus Gus | |||
| 3. Acid Tracks - D'Julz | |||
| 4. Keep Beating the Drum - Steve Mac | |||
| 5. Love Story - Layo & Bushwacka! | |||
| 6. Hungary - Musik Junkies | |||
| 7. We All Love Sax - Tim Deluxe | |||
| 8. Mountains - Meeker (Darren Emersons Dub) | |||
| 9. Remember When - Audio Drive | |||
| 10. JJ & Chris Lum - Jungle | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Darren Emerson no longer flaunts the dark DJ heart that made Underworld an international club force, but he has never contributed to anything so effortlessly danceable as Episode 1's first disc. Part of that comes from his partner here, Tim Deluxe, whose club-oriented sound encourages Emerson to drop all pretence of depth and let the house beats pound. Even the Emerson-produced "H2O", while one of disc 1's more restrained moments, has a sunny immediacy that signals a new evolution in his sound. As for Deluxe, the up-and-coming DJ's touch on this record is relentless and direct, with no time for filler or wasted energy. His production work on the hit "It Just Won't Do" sums up his unabashedly club-oriented approach while echoing the entire retro thrust of dance music in 2002. Disc 2 eases off the gas pedal somewhat, kicking off with the updated rave beats of Loose Headz before eventually dissolving into Deluxe's deconstruction of Layo & Bushwacka's "Love Story". But the disconnect that could have erupted between Emerson and Deluxe's disparate styles never happens on Episode 1, dissolved in the face of their shared goal: make those asses on the dance floor shake. -–Matthew Cooke
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Darren Emerson's production career has spawned too many classic tunes to mention (although let's list Skyscraper, Rez, Cowgirl and Dark and Long for the sake of argument), but it's only since leaving Underworld that he's really had the opportunity to don his DJ hat again and spin some wax for the munted masses. Something he does here rather convincingly too, dropping high quality house of various styles alongside Underwater signing Tim Deluxe. Disc one starts with the excellent Yaself from Brixton duo Mutiny (ex Helicopter - remember them?) and it's onwards and upwards from there with Alex Gopher's crunchy Without You, Ian Pooley's breezy 303 driven Fly Shuffle and the cunningly titled New Track from Darren himself - a slick tech-house crossover with a great hook and some sneaky builds and twists. Medicine's destined to be massive Capital Rocka also makes an appearance as does the already massive It just wont do - sure to be the label's biggest seller when it hits the shops next week.
Disc two doesn't flow quite as well somehow, losing it's way near the beginning with the inclusion of a few underwelming tunes (Gus Gus Dance you down, D'Julz Acid Tracks, Musik Junkies Hungary and the dated sounding Keep Beating the drum all fail to set the decks on fire) though it does boast a smattering of impressive heavyweight numbers such as Layo and Bushwacka's Love Story, Loose Headz' outstanding and as yet unreleased Like this and Mr Deluxe's own We all love Sax. Perhaps it is simply the case that by including BIG tracks such as these, some of the less striking tunes fade into the background a little. Neverthless, the odd flat moment aside, for the most part this collection is very good indeed, streets ahead of most of the competition, and infinitely preferable to the slew of Ibiza house compilations with which we will no doubt soon be inundated.
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First in a series by Daren Emerson and friends - fairly middling club style trance/house that falls short of being progressive, so won't appeal to those who like a bit of brain in their music. Emerson's mix is fiddly and piecemeal, never really taking off, and the second CD really isn't worth mentioning as it just flounders and end on a soggy note.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fresh Sounds and beautifully sequenced
17 Oct 2002
Format: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
Just Brilliant!
16 Jun 2003
Format: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.
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