Global Underground

Global Underground is a record label and a compilation series in the electronic music scene.

Beginning

Was founded in 1996 by Andy Horsfield and Global Underground James Todd. The label symbolizes the international rise of electronic dance music in the 90s and manifested high quality sophisticated artists like Sasha, Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia, Nick Warren, Dave Seaman, Darren Emerson and James Lavelle.

Background

Global Underground regularly brings out a series of compilation albums, which reflects the respective technical and musical demands of its global artists. At the beginning of this series was released by another record label with the name Boxed, who have released this compilation also sub series with the name NuBreed and Electric Calm. Boxed was closed in 2001 and was Global Underground Ltd.. taken. From its first release in 1996, the compilation series reached in the progressive house scene a great recognition, as well as stylistically the music came from this genre for the most part. Nevertheless, sporadic compilations have been released that are also more likely attributable to the trance and breakbeat music.

Concept

The corresponding charge DJ makes the reception for the Global Underground compilation live during a party at different locations in the world. The live set is a 2 CD format in order to give a good overall impression may be published.

International Recognition

The billboard has found that the first Global Underground DJ mix compilation was that the DJ with quality photographs on the album cover, who also played an essential role that the DJ could play the role of a superstar more.

Catalog

Here is a complete list of all available albums from the Global Underground series, which contains all the numbers, exporting DJ, the location of the live set recording and the release date. Global Underground has several " sub series " with the titles NuBreed, prototype, 24:7, Electric Calm and after -hours.

NuBreed support mix albums by newcomer DJs, such as the then Satoshi Tomiie. 24:7 is a series that build up in the two DJs in an entirely different conceptual set that should be different as night and day. " Electric Calm " is a series of chillout and lounge music.

Lights Out

In 2002, Steve Lawler his own imprint " Lights Out " on Global Underground. The concept of mix CD series was that the style of music not on the progressive house of the basic series oriented, but an innovative " darker " sound should follow. Steve Lawler was able to appeal to a new audience, as now studio mix CDs were released.

GU Music

In 2003, the label began its own franchise concept on the new imprint " GU Music". Until that time, Global Underground was just a label, the money earned with DJ compilations and mix CDs. Through its new imprint, there was now the possibility of complete artist albums, vinyls, CDs and MP3 files to publish. The " GU Music" team commented: " Having nurtured some of the worlds finest DJs we have this expertise Applied to original music, cherry picking the coolest future talent from across the globe ... ".