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Underworld & Iggy Pop: Teatime Dub Encounters review – enormo beats taking the world to task | Musique Non Stop

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Friday, July 27, 2018

Underworld & Iggy Pop: Teatime Dub Encounters review – enormo beats taking the world to task

(Caroline International)

When Rick Smith from 90s Born Slippy techno giants Underworld first met up with the 71-year-old Iggy Pop for tea at the Savoy, he realised he had “one chance to convince this gentleman that we should work together”. Thus, Smith turned up with what the former Stooge called “a whole bloody studio set up in a hotel room” – an offer Pop couldn’t refuse. Thus, 22 years after they both appeared on the Trainspotting film soundtrack, this unlikely four-track collaboration finds Smith’s daughter Esme providing sublime backing vocals and channels Pop’s formidable wordsmith talents into spontaneous, narrative freestyles.

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