Underworld – Thrash (Australia 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1989

“Thrash” is an Australia only single released by
UK electronic music act Underworld formed by Rick Smith and Karl Hyde in 1987 after their former band Freur disbanded. The single was taken from the band’s second album titled “Change The Weather”. This 12″ seems to be pretty hard to come by these days so I am happy to add it to my Totally Obscure 80s series.

SIDE A:
Thrash (Dance Pass) 6:21

SIDE B:
Thrash (Extasy Pass) 5:49

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Sire ‎– 0-21443
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: Australia
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Producer [Additional] – E. Kupper*, Mark Kamins
Producer, Mixed By – Dave Sussman*, Mark Kamins
Written-By – Alfie Thomas, Karl Hyde, Rick Smith

NOTES:
Original version appears on the Sire/Warner Bros. LP “CHANGE THE WEATHER”
Exclusive Australian release.

Find the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL RESTORATION BY:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon 2M Bronze
Isolation: Auralex Acoustics ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
DAC/Phono Pre-amp:
Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning:
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans:
Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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mjb
mjb
February 5, 2020 3:53 am

Paul, you accidentally included thrash24.rar inside thrash16.rar, so people downloading the 16-bit version end up with a 350 MB download.

toxicaudio
toxicaudio
February 4, 2020 10:17 am

Wow.Like it.Never heard it before. Sounds like a mixture of Billy Idol and Michael Hutchence. Thx Paul.

Jermajesty
Jermajesty
February 4, 2020 7:05 am

Cool post Paul. Don’t know much Underworld other than the Dubnobasswithmyheadman album, but will check this out for sure.

Funny story… I had the immense good fortune to go and see Barry Manilow a couple of years back. For seemingly no reason, and out of context with the whole show, he came on to Born Slippy! There were 20,000 middle-aged women all chanting LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER and then out pops Barry Manilow. It was surreal, and beautiful.

Joey
Joey
February 3, 2020 9:03 pm

Wow, I’ve been listening to a lot of Underworld lately, Now this is one I’ve never seen before. I guess Underworld could be divided into 3 parts. Underworld MK1 1988-1991 Pop/Dance Rock even opening for Eurythmics. Interesting thing is though famous for being in a synth heavy techno band, Carl Hyde is a guitar player and even played in Deborah Harry’s band, one sole recording exists covering Led Zeppelin on the “Producer’s Cut” of Debravation. MK2 1992-2000 is when they regrouped after their failed pop career and Darren Emerson joined the group, this was their breakthrough era and most commercial… Read more »

Daniel
Daniel
February 3, 2020 8:28 pm

Thank you Paul for introducing me to Underworld. I loved Freur’s “Doot-Doot”. I’m going to check their other 80s works. Just listened to the beautiful song “Pray” from their first album produced by Rupert Hine. Hope there will be more obscure 80s posts.

negative1
February 3, 2020 2:53 pm

hi paul,
80’s underworld is such a different band, from the techno,
electronica act from the 90’s. I had heard of freur before also.

but never got into underworlds early works. now some of it
isn’t bad as far as early electronic music goes. thanks for
highlighting the lesser known tracks, and development
of bands like this.

of course in the 90’s, the mega-hit
from trainspotting movie, would be ‘born slippy.nuxx’,
and they wouldn’t continue down that era for quite
some time.

later
-1

Don
Don
February 3, 2020 2:19 pm

Thanks for posting this super rare release from Underworld Mk. 1! It’s a great companion to the excellent rip of the “Stand Up” 12″ you did a few years ago. And definitely a worthy candidate for “totally obscure 80s.”

transito
transito
February 3, 2020 1:13 pm

La verdad es que por primera ves escucho este tema, me parece bastante interesante, para la colección, y en una de esas si me encuentro con un fanático lo pueda compartir escuchándolo, gracias por estos aportes, se valoran lo que representan gran parte de una época muy atrayente ….gracias

Jeff
Jeff
February 3, 2020 11:21 am

I am thrilled over this single Paul!! I love the early Underworld and I’m so grateful that you’ve shared it with us. And look, there’s Mark Kamins involved too!! You bring a lot of my favorite producers back into consciousness with you fantastic posts!! This is a treat Paul. I can’t wait to check it out!!

Jeff

Kevin
February 3, 2020 11:09 am

Wow! Nice one Paul! I don’t suppose you have their very rare 4 track release of Mother Earth?

negative1
Reply to  Kevin
February 3, 2020 2:59 pm

hi kevin,

i have that. mother earth is album track. the fm mix
has not appeared on cd yet. while the 2 mixes of the hump,
have appeared on the superdeluxe version of
dubnobasswithmyheadman, and on the 1992-2012 anthology.

later
-1