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This https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TCi5hCVyvkk just appeared on the band's YouTube channel.

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Nice shoes.

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The audio is one song from each of the first 7 albums, in order. So, it certainly seems like vinyl reissues of those albums is coming. Which is good, because they're all out of print, and there is a fair bit of demand out there for them.

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Great news, but wonder if this means no deluxe version coming for AHDO. I think some of us were assuming that from the Xmas email and there had been news years ago that one had already been compiled, but that email only really mentioned vinyl making it right.

We'll see - would really love to hear some unreleased ambient stuff from that time period and maybe the album-length Peel Session they did...

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weren't there reissues of the vinyl for dubno, stiti, and BF when the deluxe boxsets came out though?

Interesting that there is activity tho!

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Yes. They're all out of print though and going for premium prices on the secondary market. I assume it would be repressings of those.

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new 4 of 7 shows ADHO album sleeve/cover.

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well, why not... even though i have them already a few times
on vinyl, except 'barking'.... too bad some weren't 3xlp..

ODDLY enough, didn't get strawberry hotel.... i can wait on that,
and it doesn't 'fit' in with the rest....

hope they come out around the same time, or there's going to be a lot of waiting

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Just ordered Dubno, AHDO en OWB on vinyl. Great to finally have those.
Too bad there is no deluxe version of AHDO yet though.

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Thank god they aren't colored or else I would be forced to triple dip on some of these...

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AGH... I spent so much time and money chasing down the OG pressings of some of these. (AHDO, OWB, and Barking, really) I wish there were some more photos so we could see what the new design/packaging details are other than the spines.

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Wow. "We heard you. These are for you." Are they though?

Missed all this while at work today, and not to quibble, but it's apparently what I do now. I'm sure we've been asking for reprints on all of these, but doubt anyone's been looking for a redesign of them. Fans tend to want the originals for nostalgic reasons. Deluxe editions are a great time to give an old design a twist or refresh, but these are straight catalog replacements.

Underworld is generally amazing on the design work and these are fun, but the spine treatment definitely sets them apart, can't really use them to fill in holes in a previous collection. Seem as much marketing idea as design inspiration (got to recollect them all to match now, even if you have already them). I know everyone double-dips, but always rubs me wrong. They probably just see it as an exciting way to rejuvenate what's old to them, though.

Am glad they'll all be back and don't look a gift horse etc., but these past few years of this last album cycle have really thrown me with their choices and communication. Also surprised they are all at once and with CDs as well - guess this might be the final nail in the coffin for more Deluxe CD editions, we'll see.

Really hoping they still finally do a Riverrun collection in the fall (being the anniversary year), even if it's only all the original tracks with no extras. Definitely glad I snagged one of the anniversary Dubno vinyl reprints last year, even at $60 (which Amazon now has on sale at $50 if anyone wants that version; Drift also still available for $27).

Looks like they are up for order for anyone on the Underworld site, despite some confusing two week exclusive pre-order for mailing list info in the email. I do really like that they are all gatefolds now, as non-canon as that is. Always something... bring on that 30 years of Born Slippy drop.

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Maybe not for you, but there are a lot of new fans and vinyl collectors who want the albums on vinyl. Like I said, the demand is there, and vinyl copies of all their albums have been going for $75-200 on the secondary market for a few years. Just look at the discussion here, there are a lot of people that are buying some or all of them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/underworld/...xpecting_this/

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Sorry, guess my point was missed on this. I know and mentioned that reprinting them has been wanted/needed - it's not the availability, it's the redesign that I doubted was for us. As a fan, I'd like the original, the classic. Maybe that's not a big deal for new fans.

It is a fun design and guess it's minimal enough being mainly the spine different, but seems unnecessary and changes the wraparound style up. I will mention again how glad I am to have them - ended up ordering four of them as actually only had the two others I mentioned on vinyl. Just been in a paradoxical mix of excited and thrown by their recent releases, but guess that's me.

For those interested - outside the UK it seems to be really affordable on shipping the vinyl, which was very surprising currently. Only $12 total, so came out to $3 each for me, which is what sealed the deal.

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I was surprised too, im used to pay the same or maybe more for shipping than the actual record.

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This is the end of the deluxe editions, isn't it? They've had eight years to prepare AHDO, and yet the next reissues we get are vanilla ones. Given that the plan was to do all the albums up to OWB, it perhaps isn't so surprising that the two least well rated albums of that era end up not happening.



I will very happily be proved wrong, but I'm not holding my breath for any more boxsets now.

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i don't see why reissuing these VERY basic editions of most of their out-of-print back catalog on vinyl has any bearing on future deluxe editions. they are serving two different purposes.

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I don't know... you are right, it is totally possible and one doesn't preclude the other. Guess it just feels highly unlikely now, given that they all came out together previously (Deluxe CD box, vinyl, regular CD, Blu-ray audio).

It was the CD repackaging for all of them along with the vinyl that was the surprise to me (after no hint of that from their email or video teaser) and makes it feel like this is all that's planned for them. We'll see, definitely still hopeful, just not optimistic.

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Speaking of the CD repackaging - anyone else have thoughts on the varying CD cover choices for Dubno and STITI?

Dubno seems to have the vinyl cover on outside and CD cover on its booklet, while STITI totally drops it's CD cover anywhere, sticking with the vinyl cover on the booklet and a cropped version of it also for the outer cover. Bit revisionist.

BF keeps it's classic different circle CD cover for both, though. May just be the product mockups, but kind of odd.

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Yeah, it is interesting that they chose to do that, apparently deliberately, since BF and Barking both have the correct (differing) covers for vinyl/CD.

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Because the very basic editions also accompanied the deluxe reissues - 1CD and vinyl editions came out alongside the boxsets. Especially as AHDO has been remastered, and one assumes the same for OWB, then I can't imagine them waiting eight years, putting them out as vanilla reissues, then doing the deluxes 18 months down the line with accompanying vanillas again, or just doing a CD boxset and no conventional releases.



Again, not saying it'll definitely never happen, but to me this, combined with the very, very long gap, really makes it feel like those last two boxsets have been scrapped.

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Yes, I agree with purlieu's reasoning. It does seem to make the possibility of further deluxe box sets less likely.

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I just hope we still get a Riverrun boxset, or at the very least dump them all on to digital (in the fall maybe? anniversary year? hello?)

They are an important part of their catalog (especially after Drift) and bordering on criminal (or at least neglect) that they are not available (as Karl has acknowledged).

And they are obviously their own thing, but they would also go some way toward covering a sense of extras/behind-the-scenes/alternate tracks from both the AHDO and OWB eras in absence of deluxe editions that offered those (which I hadn't actually thought of that way until just now).

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Looks like shipping EXPLODED on these in the last week :eek:

Tariffs I guess.

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Really don't understand why they never released Riverrun on CD especially when it could easily fit on 2 CDs, so it won't be that expensive release. Of course a 4 CD set would be better, but if they don't want it to be a pricey thing to produce, a double CD set would be fair enough with the 4 episodes.

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just got my shipping order for it here in the US.

well, that's cool, they are on their way....

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FYI, it looks like these are hitting regular record stores on May 16.

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Anyone in the UK/Europe get their order yet? Probably still too early, don't know if they shipped for release day delivery.

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Mine (STITI, BF, AHDO and OWB) arrived on Friday (release day) - they were shipped on next day Royal Mail delivery. I quite like the idea of these being redesigned and re-released, I feel like it gets the records into the hands of people like me who want to listen to a high quality version on a turntable without necessarily overly devaluing the original pressings, although I could see the remasters from 2014-2018 perhaps taking a dip on the second hand market). Sound and pressing quality is great - nice and flat records with little to no surface noise that I've noticed.

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It looks like May 16 is the confirmed retail release date in US, UK, and Europe. I see pre-order listings in all 3 regions, like this:

https://www.bullmoose.com/search?q=u...3006|-3008|-53
https://www.roughtrade.com/search?q=...ion=Pre-Orders

I'm sure they will show up on Amazon soon too, as well as your favorite local record store, or other retailers where you may find discounts, bundle deals, free shipping, etc.

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Any news on digital release? Are AHDO & OWB actually remastered?

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Not sure about digital. AHDO is definitely remastered (the 2024 remaster we heard at Christmas time). The first 3 are the remastered from last decade. OwB and later are not remastered.

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Sweet! That's actually the exact same four that I ordered. Glad to hear they are great pressings.

Got notice that mine shipped out from UK today and are supposedly being delivered in FL tomorrow, which is wild for only $12 shipping.

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here's my records, everything came today a few hours ago:
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https://i.ibb.co/C3j2YD6F/IMG-20250415-152819.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/Z6KctnT9/IMG-20250415-152859.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/5xMHgdhH/IMG-20250415-152932.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/4nMchXNK/IMG-20250415-153035.jpg


OCD kicked in..

was going to compare with the originals... barking??? calling barking, don't have UK or US 2xlp..

discogs..... will have to wait on UK one... 1 US one... ordered..

ok, then strawberry hotel called out..... ordered that and CD, and DRIFT 2xlp also.... sigh.... haha..

will post comparisons later on.

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Interesting that Barbara Barbara has a framed border when the original did not. Even the reissue CD does not have a framed border.

I think I will buy them all on Deep Discount (they're all up for pre-order there now) when they have one of their regular 15% off coupons.

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Here's what could be a rather stupid question, but I'm playing Oblivion with Bells on vinyl (first time I've owned on record) and the version of Beautiful Burnout is quite a bit different from the CD I have. Was the original vinyl like that?

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Apparently, they used the wrong (unmixed) tracks on this vinyl (and probably the CD too?) reissue

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Thank you, that explains it!

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Are the CDs have booklets?