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$\"NATACHA$ <\/a> Deep in the vaults of Transglobal Undergrounds marble halls lie hours and hours of recordings of music, hundreds of versions of songs, remixes, experiments, jam sessions, DJ instrumentals and sounds that never knew a name. \u00a0After a long descent into these recordings, TGU present the first in a series of complilations of unreleased and rare tracks from various eras of their existence.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cSomethings gonna happen. We don\u2019t know what it is but it\u2019s gonna happen and you\u2019re gonna be a part of it.\u201d<\/em> Nation Records, sometime in the early 90s<\/strong><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nThis collection of hidden treasures and previously unreleased gems lost celebrates the magic and the passion of one of a breakthrough era in British music, and the collaboration between two of it\u2019s most successful and uncompromising avatars; Nation Records and Transglobal Underground.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThis was the last triumph of independent labels in the days when \u2018indie\u2019 referred to the spirit and to the creativity of the business and not to a bunch of guitar bands in reality being underfunded by a major. It was the era when small units like Creation and Food could shift serious units with Oasis and Blur, when On-U Sound (a major influence on both Nation and TGU) could build it\u2019s own dub based musical universe, where techno labels were being created out of bedrooms all over the country and when Real World could release music from anywhere on earth without being marginalised.\r\n\r\nIt was also an era when the UK bhangra scene was selling massive quantities of cassettes all over the country, although you were more likely to find them in a corner shop than any national record outlet.\u00a0Inevitably these different waves of energy and the growth of digital technology would lead to some artists starting to throw it all together and see what came out. These people were to find a home at Nation Records. Talvin Singh and Nitin Sawnhey made their first experiments here and Jah Wobble was a regular contributor. Others were survivors of the late 80s carcrash of major label decadence, bhangra players with ideas of widening the spectrum, techno DJs who couldn\u2019t resist playing at the \u2018wrong\u2019 tempos and, in the case of Natacha Atlas, a bellydancer in Northampton.\r\n\r\nTransglobal Underground was the result. And the result of that was a London based groove explosion that quickly went big all over the UK, mixing sounds of the city that had never been combined before with sounds from all over the world that had never been combined before\u2026.rules were broken, barriers ridden over, the debut album \u2018Dream of 100 Nations\u2019 went top 40 and was on a whole bunch of best of lists.\r\n\r\nFrom then on, right through the 90s, TGU were constantly either onstage or in the studio, creating much more music than could ever have fitted on to the4 albums released during that period. Some of these tracks were ideas left in pieces too ambitious for those times, and have been lovingly stuck back together in the form originally imagined. Some were experiments in cinematic sounds, some were released at the time on the flood of ambient and global CDs that came out over the period and haven\u2019t been available since; All in all though, this is a pretty concise but not necessarily definitive collection of (lost and in some cases, forgotten) music from the olde Transglobal Underground vaults.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSoundcloud preview here:\u00a0https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/transglobal-underground\/digging-the-underground-volume-one<\/a>\r\n\r\n $\"TRANSGLOBAL$ <\/a>\r\n\r\nTRACKLISTING<\/strong>\r\n\r\n1: MEDICINE EAGLE<\/strong>\r\n\r\nDuring the sessions that became TGUs first album, \u201cDream of 100 Nations\u201d Tuup and Bob of Loop Guru disappeared into the Euston Road for half an hour. When they returned they\u2019d written this, which was then recorded in half an hour\u2026and the magic of the moment was then lost for nearly 20 years till it turned up at the end of a reel of 2\u201d tape.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n2:FEIN EL ADALA<\/strong>\r\nA first speculative collaboration between TGU and Natacha Atlas,with James Bond movie maestro David Arnold, who Natacha later worked with regularly. Featuring two imaginary orchestras and a kitchen sink\r\n\r\n $\"TRANSGLOBAL$ <\/a>\r\n\r\n3:INTERNATIONAL TIMES (One By The Drum Mix)<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAt least 6 versions of the title track of TGUs second album have been released in the past. Here\u2019s another, with Heitham Al Sayed of Senser rapping. Not released at the time as it felt like so much of the moment that the moment had passed by the time the album was finished. Here is the news for 1994\u2026it felt like this.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n4:EL HAYA GAMILLA<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe sessions for \u2018International Times\u2019 blurred into the sessions for Natacha Atlas\u2019 first solo album \u2018Diaspora\u2019\u2026.this song, which fell between the cracks somewhere along the way, was the link between the two.\r\n\r\n $\"TRANSGLOBAL$ \r\n\r\n5:GIANT BULLFROGS<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFrom the sessions for the fourth album \u2018Rejoice Rejoice.\u201d Coleridge puts down a transcendental rap over a re-imagning over the albums \u2018Sky Giant\u2019 groove.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n6:CALLISTO<\/strong>\r\n\r\nOne day, A live percussion session produced a whole number of tracks based on one theme during the \u2018Psychic Karaoke\u2019 sessions. Originally released on the Nation compilation \u2018Fuse 3\u2019\r\n\r\n $\"TGU$ <\/a>\r\n\r\n7:MYSTERY:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFrom the \u201cInternational Times\u201d sessions, this track featured Tuup and Natacha. Left in pieces at the time it\u2019s been reassembled out of a number of fragments and alternate mixes.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n8:ANCESTRAL GHOSTS<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAnother re-assemblage, this time from the sessions for the first album \u2018Dream of 100 Nations\u2019 featuring the Romanian drawl of Zahrema and the American cry of Dale Joyner\r\n\r\n $\"TGU$ <\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n9:SERENGETI<\/strong>\r\n\r\nNeil Sparkes recites, Natacha sings and Larry Whelan creates a desert wind on this previously unreleased track from the \u2018Psychic Karaoke\u2019 sessions.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n10:ARMCHAIR COWBOYS CLASH<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIt was3am in a dark studio and TGU were tearing the\u2018Psychic Karaoke\u2019 album to pieces and throwing every device in the studio at it\u2026\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n11:PHANTASY ISLAND<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAnother outtake from \u2018Psychic Karaoke;\u2019 session, this dub groove turned up on a couple of compilations but never on a TGU release.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n12:STEP ACROSS THE EDGE<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThis was the first vocal Natacha Atlas ever recorded with TGU. Her perfomance went so well that emerged as a new track,\u2018El Heddud\u2019 in which form it appeared on \u2018Dream of 100 Nations.\u2019 The song itself was later re-recorded for the album \u2018Yes Boss Food Corner.\u2019 This version, featuring Natacha and Dale Joyner, is where it all came from.\r\n\r\n \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"