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Title:
Second Toughest In The Infants
Description:
Scaruffi: 7/10
The drum’n’bass mega-hit Born Slippy turned Underworld into a household name (well, sort of), but was not fully representative of their artistic mission. Second Toughest In The Infants (Wax Trax, 1996) continued Dubnobasswithmyheadman’s experiment but focusing on the clubs. The timbric elegance and tribal rhythm of Juanita (sixteen minutes) exploit a pattern invented by Giorgio Moroder with From Here To Eternity, and then wed it to frantic techno accelerations, to psychedelic melodic chanting and to syncopated hip-hop interludes.
The subdued, melancholy tone of Banstyle leads Underworld into trip-hop territory: minimalistic repetition of a bass keyboard pattern, slippery soul singing, noises of nocturnal jungle, undercurrents of reggae and blues guitar, reverbed dub beats, bossanova-style mumbling, and jazzy drumming throughout. As a ballad, it is a bold experiment: the instrumental parts are an order of magnitude longer than the vocal parts, it mutates all the time, and it lasts fifteen minutes. It is Mike Oldfield’s technique of linear collage applied to dance music.
After these two monster tracks, the album glides down to less ambitious music. The liquid techno beats and trance-like murmuring in Confusion The Waitress are immersed in the same trip-hop ambience. The heavily distorted techno crescendo of Rowla and the helicopter-like tribal beat Pearl’s Girl (ten minutes of mad tempo shifts) express pure edonism.
This album stands as more than a mere continuation of the pan-stylistic program launched with Dubnobasswithmyheadman: it takes all those ideas and, instead of expanding in all directions, it compresses them in superbly crafted songs.
1. Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream Of Love
2. Banstyle / Sappys Curry
3. Confusion the Waitress
4. Rowla
5. Pearl’s Girl
6. Air Towel
7. Blueski
8. Stagger
The drum’n’bass mega-hit Born Slippy turned Underworld into a household name (well, sort of), but was not fully representative of their artistic mission. Second Toughest In The Infants (Wax Trax, 1996) continued Dubnobasswithmyheadman’s experiment but focusing on the clubs. The timbric elegance and tribal rhythm of Juanita (sixteen minutes) exploit a pattern invented by Giorgio Moroder with From Here To Eternity, and then wed it to frantic techno accelerations, to psychedelic melodic chanting and to syncopated hip-hop interludes.
The subdued, melancholy tone of Banstyle leads Underworld into trip-hop territory: minimalistic repetition of a bass keyboard pattern, slippery soul singing, noises of nocturnal jungle, undercurrents of reggae and blues guitar, reverbed dub beats, bossanova-style mumbling, and jazzy drumming throughout. As a ballad, it is a bold experiment: the instrumental parts are an order of magnitude longer than the vocal parts, it mutates all the time, and it lasts fifteen minutes. It is Mike Oldfield’s technique of linear collage applied to dance music.
After these two monster tracks, the album glides down to less ambitious music. The liquid techno beats and trance-like murmuring in Confusion The Waitress are immersed in the same trip-hop ambience. The heavily distorted techno crescendo of Rowla and the helicopter-like tribal beat Pearl’s Girl (ten minutes of mad tempo shifts) express pure edonism.
This album stands as more than a mere continuation of the pan-stylistic program launched with Dubnobasswithmyheadman: it takes all those ideas and, instead of expanding in all directions, it compresses them in superbly crafted songs.
1. Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream Of Love
2. Banstyle / Sappys Curry
3. Confusion the Waitress
4. Rowla
5. Pearl’s Girl
6. Air Towel
7. Blueski
8. Stagger
Band or Artist:
Underworld
Release Year:
1996
Length:
73
Barcode:
5026734000524
Country:
United States
Format:
CD
Genre:
House
Trance
Dance
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Producer:
Underworld
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AllMusic Rating:
3
Number of Tracks:
8
Album Type:
Album
Quality:
320 kbit/s
Number of Discs:
1
Date Added:
2018-06-28 16:11:45
Date Added:
2018-06-28 16:11:45
