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Summary: Best dvd out there of its kind
Review: This is the 1st dvd I bought of this kind for trance/techno artists and to be honest, I spoiled myself early. I thought all of them would be exactly like this... was I wrong. Everything, Everything is set up exactly how a fan would want it, that is, going straight through the album with shots of shows from all over the world without having all the downtime of interviews and autograph signings. Hey, I figure if you want to know the whole biography of the group, go on their homepage. In addition, there's the feature called the Tomato Art Jam that goes through the entire album with only visuals on the screen, similar to what you would to see on the backscreen at a show. I play it in the background at my parties for the video feeds while I spin other beats. Wish more dj dvds were set up like this.
Rating:
Summary: Best dvd out there of its kind
Review: This is the 1st dvd I bought of this kind for trance/techno artists and to be honest, I spoiled myself early. I thought all of them would be exactly like this... was I wrong. Everything, Everything is set up exactly how a fan would want it, that is, going straight through the album with shots of shows from all over the world without having all the downtime of interviews and autograph signings. Hey, I figure if you want to know the whole biography of the group, go on their homepage. In addition, there's the feature called the Tomato Art Jam that goes through the entire album with only visuals on the screen, similar to what you would to see on the backscreen at a show. I play it in the background at my parties for the video feeds while I spin other beats. Wish more dj dvds were set up like this.
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Summary: Underworld's "Everything" is great!
Review: This live concert video takes place in a huge stadium and has incredible sound quality. The vibe at the stadium packed with thousands is awesome and you'll feel like you're there! This is a must buy for any Underworld/techno/rave fans!
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Summary: Not as good as being there but almost
Review: To say this DVD is loaded with special features is an understatement. First off, though, if you're a fan of the band you simply should buy this DVD. You can alternate between live footage and tomato 'visuals' flawlessly. Then, when you plug the DVD into your DVD-ROM drive you can access a special web site that will be updated daily (!) allowing you new footage, mixes, etc. Plus, there is a visual remixer that lets you mix your own video to a live version of "Dark and Long". Oh, yeah, there's also three songs here not on the CD, and some other stuff.
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Summary: High water mark
Review: Underworld and tomato have done what many bands have tried and failed (Metallica,NIN) to do with the DVD format. The images, sounds and the experience of a show is perfectly translated into the world of home theater. I am a huge fan of the band but even my parents who are MUCH older loved the DVD. A high watermark has been set with this DVD and I don't expect any LIVE DVD to come close to the excitement of everything everything to be matched for a long time. If you don't own a 5.1 home theater, this DVD is one reason you should and the first DVD you should play. Just make sure to play it loud.
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Summary: Insipring = the calling card of the band
Review: Underworld has gone through their entire career by doing things their way. They brought on JBO (Junior Boys Own) instead of letting a record company boss them around. They don't do the typically accepted 4-minutes-and-done tracks. They helped found Tomato, the London based design company that does the visuals for their shows (and this DVD). They just love doing things their way, which is really refreshing since it seems a lot of music artists out there are handicapped by management that tries to point them down a certain path rather than let the art come out in its purest form.So Underworld set on the task of creating this experience, smack dab in the middle of touring for an album they had just released (Beaucoup Fish). It's amazing how well they captured the concert experience (in addition to enhancing it with visuals and effects melded on top of the concert footage), and the angles were worked well to provide the viewer with better than front row perception...footage was taken from the front, the back, the sides, from the depths of the crazed crowd, from the stage, and so forth, so the viewer can experience not only what the show was like, but the venue and the crowd as well to better serve the experience as a whole. The songs themselves are pretty much a collection of greatest hits, minus an odd one here and there such as "Darktrain." Whereas Rick Smith is basically 99% of the studio work, vocalist Karl Hyde is the focal point for the audience for the live shows, and Hyde puts out the most incredible energy at every show (as though it were to be his first and last performance). the music itself shouldn't be cheapened by pigeonholing it into a certain category, be it techno, trance...whatever. The beats are for dancing and the vocals are for thinking. Deciphering Underworld lyrics, which have intentionally never been fully published, is like trying to figure out a rubix cube, but what's wonderful about them is they are very thought suggestive in the regard that following them may trigger images or past experiences that YOU'VE had, rather than hear tales of what happened to the singer or the band. This DVD can be played showing concert + visual footage combined, or just the visuals + music, along with 2 extra tracks "Kittens" and "Rowla" which don't have the benefit of having liv concert footage to go along with them. There is also an out-takes session, where some of the clips that made it onto the DVD and some that weren't being pieced together along with audio clips from the performances being heard in the echo-ey fashion that you'd hear if you were actually towards the back of the performance itself. There are also features for your computer, provided you have a DVD drive, that sadly I haven't seen because I don't own the necessary equipment to view them. The visuals themselves are real images that are given distortion here and there, and are pieced together to coincide with the song being performed, rather than the cookie-cutter style of playing random visuals to go along with whatever is going on with the music. The visuals even, although obviously for the eye candy factor, are good at provoking thought and images and memories of things you may have encountered in your life, which makes the Underworld experience all the more personal. If you've never heard of Underworld (chances are you've heard a track or two in your time if you're in the dance scene), then this might be worth checking out for you. If you know and appreciate Underworld's music, then you should have NO EXCUSE for not having this DVD! :)
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Summary: INCREDIBLE!
Review: WARNING: This DVD will create FEELINGS. If you don't want to get excited or get up and dance, don't watch it! I saw this DVD a month before I went to the Underworld concert, and I couldn't believe how great it was. I've never seen a DVD so vivid; it's like you are right there live with Underworld. Everything was perfect: the music, Karl Hyde's amazing dancing, the unreal lighting and the perfect editing. This DVD is extremely well made, and I told myself I would be happy if the real concert itself was even HALF as good as the DVD (well very fortunate for me, the concert itself ended up to be even better than the DVD!). I highly recommend Everything-Everything!
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Summary: Absolutely Everything
Review: Wow. Simply stunning. Combining the relentless and hypnotic beats of a World Acclaimed act with live footage and user operable visuals is the best use I've seen of the media this year. Forget watching videos or simply listening to a CD, this is a new experience which surely will lead other artists to follow in their wake. Superb guys. Congratulations to Tomato for the package and obviously to the sounds of Karl Hyde, Darren Emerson and Rick Smith.
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