Underworld - dubs and instrumentals

[negative1]

exploration of early underworld tracks.

searching for instrumentals and dubs, so i wanted to create my own.

intelligent software out there nowadays, but very tedious, and not perfect.

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more dubby... (trying to remove vocal parts)

underworld - dark and dub
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r10rywBHuCg


underworld - dub and long (vocal)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azWJCIRqLys


more experiments coming soon.

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[negative1]

Next up is mmm skyscraper i love you,
another great single.

This is a very complex song, with a lot of effects,
and layers going on.

so first, i tried to strip it back to a more ambient
sounding track, without the drums and other effect:
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mmmm skyscraper i love you (ambient)
(might be blocked)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxzeroCoL6Q


then, i tried to make it more of a dub, by removing
some of the effects.

it was very hard, because there are speech samples
intermixed with singing, so a lot of it is still there.
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mmm skyscraper i dub you
(might be blocked)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRycdiEfPoY

NOTE : will be updating this page too
https://surfaceremix.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/underworld-dubnobasswithmyheadman-dubs-and-instrumentals/

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[negative1]

surfboy is up next.

a cool, interesting sounding song.
with minimal lyrics in it.

all kinds of echoes, and percussion going
on throughout it.

nice dark, techno sounding:

here's the instrumental:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NZzsD-SWHs


and the dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S60y92VdCt0

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[negative1]

continuing with the album,

here's spoonman, love the drop in the middle of it.

the dubby version : spoon dub:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHnlA8WN4JM

and the instrumental
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zByw4Zmtswk

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[negative1]

yes, i'm skipping tongue.
its mostly one channel, no drums, bass, etc, so onto dirty epic.

and what an amazing song this is.
lots of layers, and so many things going on to listen to.


here's my instrumental:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZxvAVav43Q

and a dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U91pKwiV9sA
(video blocked)

alt audio:
https://sowndhaus.audio/track/19405/06-underworld-dirty-epic-dub

very dark.

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[negative1]

onto the last upbeat track, the classic cowgirl.

sounds are very interesting, and complex as usual:

cowgirl (instrumental):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Re2oXz9Yo

cowdub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOTm29qbsrM

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[negative1]

more fun with the cowgirl samples.

a more minimal version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLXHh4Mmhlk

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[negative1]

here's a very mellow track,
with some interesting vocals:

river of bass (instrumental):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXcDqFyNZeA

river of dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c8BPrjQw9M

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[negative1]

up to the final track,
mother earth, love the samples and voices in this one,
and how they all mix together.

mother dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPiAeYfpSAw

mother earth (instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_56tgbLF7Y

well, hope you enjoyed them.

was interesting to check them out.

hope to do all the rest of the non-album tracks,
and of course all the material from second toughest in the infants,
and the remixes too. maybe some other select singles after that.

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[negative1]

a few more bonus edits and tracks.

cowgirl (minimal edit):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94qlFXINZM

cowgirl (dub edit):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ib_vLAyR4

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[holden]

Interesting exercises in vocal removal. It's an odd listen, for me, in a couple of respects:

1) I'm so used to hearing the vocals, I find I'm awaiting them to enter. But without them, you are right, I pay closer attention to what's happening with the music. Surely some buried loops and effects that I'd not noticed before. However...

2) Got to appreciate your efforts to strip out the vocals, but the half-erased vox leads to weird fluttering effects and artifacts, and the whole experience is kind of like listening to a low bitrate stream. Not terrible, but glitchy.

The stems from the old idrum app (i remember having Cowgirl, Pearls Girl, Dark Train) were fun to play around with and remix acapella versions! Obviously not what you are doing here, but a similar sort of concentration on the loops and layering options rather than the track builds as we know them.

[negative1]

hi holden,

i agree, these are just interesting experiments.

we will have to wait several more years for software to improve on these features.

although, with enough work, they can be made to sound better. youtube compression
doesn't help.

i'm in the processing of revisitng these tracks, and made some improvements.

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[negative1]

heres another early track, the hump:

the hump (wild dub):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAGdeehpDsE

the hump (wild beasts instrumental):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PfNr2wiG1Q

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[negative1]

here's a minimal take on 'rez':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC8Kk_h_rV0

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[negative1]

the epic why why why,

not so many layers, but great sequencing, and a nice long buildup

minimal dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NdEBXEQxQ

a more ambient muted version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JIcSKTiiHU

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[negative1]

a few more dubs and loose ends: dark train 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPe2zaeds0I


dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atfk_MiTv_k

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[negative1]

the second toughest tracks all work well as ambient ones.

juanita short cut instrumental edit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja3TKIyKKFk

juanita short cut dub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prJ14pb7gc4

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