Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Dub In Time - Avatar
2. Firewire - Substructure
3. Compass Error - Atlas
4. Nobody's Home - Ulrich Schnauss
5. Roll Call - Shuffleheads
6. Happy Cycling - Boards Of Canada
7. Thinking About Your Next Move - Yunx
8. Tightrope Artist Tale - Planet Funk
9. The Dive - Momu
10. In Every Truth - Mastermind
11. Helga Moller - Justin Simmons
12. Outsider - Burufunk
13. 14:31 - Global Communication
14. 110 Mistakes - Mot
15. Yewminist - Grayarea
16. Love Lost - Glimmer Of Dope

Disc 2:

1. Awakening - Juan Recoba
2. Advance - Headstart
3. Aural Navigation Part 2 - Aural Imbalance
4. Rise - Vector
5. Don't Play The Game - Aquaculture
6. Headpusher - Dream Traveler
7. Karma - Rambient
8. Crayons - Starkid
9. Strawberry Fields - Subsky
10. Last Minute Flight - Kris B

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45460 in Music
• Released on: 2003-03-24
• Number of discs: 2

Amazon.co.uk Review
As the original Massive Attack tour DJ, Bristol's Nick Warren knows a thing or two about stringing a bunch of records together. As Reykjavik #024 shows, this is a man who weaves his cloth from the rumblings of both old and new, finding inspiration in the ponderous and more pumping ends of trance culture. Warren starts the first CD in finely chilled style. Dropping anything from slo-mo ambient to deep quilted dub (check out Boards Of Canada's weird rustic hip-hop melding into the nu-skool malevolence of Justin Simmons' "Helga Moller"), it's a head-nodder's delight. CD2 ups the dancefloor ante and brings together an alarmingly steady supply of top quality trancey prog-house cuts, battling it out for supremacy with hard to define bruisers like the rifftastic white label "Headpusher" from Dream Traveller. Truly, this man is to be trusted. --Paul Tierney

Customer Reviews

GU regains its momentum
This was the first GU CD I'd bought in awhile, as the series seemed to be disappearing into a listless progressive void. Then Nick Warren comes along and changes my perception of GU and him as a DJ forever. Sneaky fecker!
I'm a sucker - I keep buying CDs on a whim, to the point that my living room is creaking. Included in this huge collection, is a substantial amount of progressive house. Sure there are some gems in the collection - Fundacion, Sequential Vol. 2, Therapy Sessions, etc, etc, but much of it has been stuck on to I-tunes to be heard once in a blue moon. It's due to lack of originality and imagination. Progressive house doesn't progress anymore!! Now though, the dying flames of my love affair have been fanned.

CD1 is imaginative and refreshing. It breathes life into the genre and the choice of tracks is faultless. Warren chooses to splice a number of tracks with others (a trait that has been much-copied since) to great effect, adding new dimensions to individual works.

CD2 is more run of the mill progressive house, but it's energetic and funky and merits a fairly regular listen.

For me it's all about CD1 and on its merits, I've ordered GU Shanghai. I wait with baited breath.

Brave and vindicated.
It's a view held by many that Nick Warren 'is' GU. And it's not a wholly unfounded view, either, given the Boxed boys have called him more than anyone else to get on the decks. His offerings have been consistently superb, GU24 (intended originally as NW's last GU, a decision divinely reversed later for Shanghai) bears little resemblence to his former offerings, nor those of any other DJ. Which was rather brave at the conception stage.

Warren here goes back to his Massive Attack DJ roots since this album is far more about unhurried depth of sound and trip-hop than it is house. The inclination to fill dance floors is only occasionally visited, and is instead flanked by a more constant presence way down at the bottom of the BPM scale. It's a lesson in track selection and mixing, and its structure is one of human-like mood changes that one could easily experience when immersed in such music or a related club night.

So it's all the more confusing that all the tracks seem natural in their progression, given that the structure is mood-like not directional. There are precious few mix albums like this where you can see each track belongs - forget fillers. So it would do injustice to those I don't mention if I were to pick out highlights (although the fact that there's a Planet Funk song should accelerate your dive to the 'buy now' button). The songs fit, the mixing is, well, Nick Warren, and it shows that the slowing and broadening of prog house only makes it more deserving of its 'intelligent' tag.

easily forgettable
I see a couple of other revies of this albumn rate it very highly, but I dont feel quite the same. I own the majority of the global underground collection, and i find this CD reasonably forgettable in the grand scale of things. Most of the CDs in the global underground collection seem to have a theme (digweed in los angeles= seedy and slow moving US house,lavelle in barcelona = massive breaks with deep basslines).however i dont think this compilation has any real direction. You seem to find yourself using the skip button on the CD player an awful lot more then you should do, and to listen from begining to end can feel more like a chore at times then enjoyment.I cant really pick out any tunes of distinction. If your just starting out in listening to global underground stuff can i suggest you give oakenfold in new york, digweed in los angeles (for some very dark house) or sasha in ibiza ago first before buying this.I know everyones got there own tastes so dont read this as gospel, but i just found this one a bit bland.