So, what’s the best GU disc 1 and why is it Athens?

Northern Exposure 2 - Disc 2 is more banging and more enjoyable than Disc 1.

    Yoshiesque Two - the Disc 1 is very well put together, but is mostly deep house. Although the intro to Disc 2 (Finally) needs to be skipped, it then builds to some excellent peak-time prog later on.

    LT42 Blasted off CD1 of GU13 this morning to get the engine going. Hasn’t aged a day really. Tremendous.

    Yes Liqui, yes!

      Disc 2 of Digweed’s Fabric - because even though it doesn’t exist, unlike the Disc 1 at least I didn’t waste my time and money on it.

      Have just been enjoying Cape Town disk two.

      hugopal Northern Exposure 2 - Disc 2 is more banging and more enjoyable than Disc 1.

      I usually agree with Hugo’s music takes but this one is as wrong as wrong can be!

          James Lavelle Romania Disc 2 better than Disc 1.

          Prove me wrong!

          You would have to time travel back to 2004 and fish it out of your bin.

            I have such fond memories of Rhouses defending that release with such gusto. Less than a year later we found out that GU had gone bankrupt and that Barcelona was the first of several court ordered releases, the purposes of which were to generate capital to pay back the parties they ripped off, one of which was John Digweed.

              zackster you’re surely only responding to try and justify your original post, either ignoring or being obtuse regarding any instances which might go against it.

              And what of the aforementioned Yoshiesque Two?

                  Imagine being one of those people who collected all the ‘longbox’ editions and therefore had to put up with Lavelle - Bangkok on your shelves, as though you were into it.

                  hugopal NE Disc 1 (or East Cost in my world) is the best S&D mix of all time.

                  I’ve actually never heard Yoshiesque. I know it is highly rated by many on here.

                      zackster Both Yoshiesque’s are brilliant.

                      A far cry from the absolute embarrassment that was GU Moscow.

                        benson I don’t think so, but I could be wrong. Iircc the story was pieced together from various articles and quotes. Some notable moments I remember are as follows:

                        1. Puff piece on Andy Horseface being at the helm of GU. Hidden inside was a bit about James heading to Japan(?) to coach soccer. In retrospect he was clearly getting the fuck out of Dodge before the shit hit the fan.
                        2. Article in Dj or Mixmag about GU being acquired by Ministry of Sound. I think this was where most the concrete facts came from. Said they went bankrupt, money was owed ex ex…
                        3. Digweed was asked about working with GU again and he said something about them being boat buying wankers, and that he never saw a dime for Hong Kong or L.A.

                        There was definitely more, but those are the three things that stand out in my mind.

                            Oh and there was an article or a board post or something about the last days of the GU offices. Employees talked about being owed months of back pay, showing up to locked doors, embarrassing tasks they were given as part of their jobs ex ex.

                            It’s clear that changing the message board killed the brand.

                            Who owns it now BTW?

                              Homegrove a fair amount of truth in that I reckon. They went up their own arses, didn’t realise the stalwarts of the message board were their biggest advocates and basically fucked themselves over. All started with that Felx Da Housecat GU and downhill from there.

                              • Dan replied to this.

                                  I always assumed that they killed the board as part of the sale/take over. Didn’t take a rocket scientist to come in, appraise the situation, and realize that there was no way of moving forward with that sewer openly flowing. We obviously loved it, but when you want to move into the world of selling luggage tags to euro trash you really can’t have a fully functional message board running wild.