Tracklist 01. All That Glitters 02. Happier 03. Folded 04. The Land of Grey 05. Your Mind 06. Thousand Yard Stare 07. Prologue (featuring Mytrip) 08. Two Keys Black 09. Please Specify
Press Release Following the larger-than-life "Silent Siren" and preceding a new album as a full-band, "Prologue" is an instrumental, introvert musical dialogue between Dean Rodell and Ivan Shopov. If both are known for their beat-driven music, Underhill's new album is what they listen to and write when the time comes for calm moments and beauty. A melancholic and beautiful play of acoustic tones, dub atmospheres and electronic glitches, "Prologue" provides a welcome respite to an overdriven electronic scene and does so with subtlety and humanity. Underhill's debut, 2012's “Silent Siren” album, was a larger-than-life work. Combining the musical talent of three producers (Dean Rodell, Cooh / Balkansky's Ivan Shopov and Current Value's Tim Elliot) and including the voices of Martina Astner and MC Coppa, often all on one track, was a major effort resulting in a full and lush sound. Just as “Silent Siren” was a surprise both in its line-up and its resulting seductive sound, “Prologue” is everything except what one could have expected. Instead of gathering the whole band again for days or weeks in the studio, Dean Rodell and Ivan Shopov chose to work together in a reduced setting. Recorded in the weeks preceding the 2013 edition of the Burn The Machine festival, this new album is a intimate work, which sounds and feels as a concentrate of these two musicians' take at dub, introvert music. While Ivan Shopov and Dean Rodell are better known for their club-friendly drum'n'bass and dubstep (the first as Balkansky and Cooh, the later either solo or as part of Machine Code), they are no strangers to much calmer material. “Prologue” is the perfect example of their skills at long atmospheric tunes, dub-heavy ambiences ...
Tracklist 01. Night Lines 02. Blind 03. Hiding the Light 04. Trippin 05. My Shadow 06. The Miss 07. Civil Lies 08. Black Sun Butterfly 09. Law Enforcement 10. Silent Siren 11. Podgorna 12. Creator 13. River of Hades 14. Solace 15. Blind (Balkansky Deep Wood Remix) 16. Solace (remix by The Sect) 17. Civil Lies (remix by Bong-Ra)
Press Release Somebody will need to come up with a genre name for Underhill's “Silent Siren”. With music written by Dean Rodell, Balkansky / Cooh and Current Value and vocals by Martina Astner and MC Coppa, this album is as coherent as its line-up is improbable. Trip-hop, drum'n'bass, gothic atmospheres and hip hop: all these elements are molten into each other with great care, creating an impressive work which is far more than the sum of its parts. Try it at home, then try it on a huge PA: Underhill's “Silent Siren” is a multi-faceted creation which just invites its listener to dive deeper. “Silent Siren” is not an easy album to describe in a few words, probably because it is the collaborative work of musicians coming from extremely diverse horizons. On the one side, two vocalists: Martina Astner, known for being the female voice of the famous goth-metal outfit Therion and MC Coppa, whose voice has been lent to many a drum'n'bass, dubstep and hip hop single. On the other side, Tim Elliot, whose Current Value project is by far one of the most acclaimed act of the genre (and who was recently invited by Bjork to write music for her new album), Ivan Shopov who with Cooh and Balkansky is one of Europe's hardest working producers of all things dark and electronic, and finally Dean Rodell, a veteran producer with his hands in techno, drum'n'bass and Elliot's partner in crime in the Machine Code outfit. If Underhill's line-up requires a long breath and jump through genres, their “Silent Siren” début album is something which seduces from the first listening. A rich and warm ensemble, it impresses by the coherence of its tracks and its flow. May it be its down-tempo instrumental beginning or the ambitious mixture of vocals, guitars and d'n'b beats of the ...
