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RichM Personally I think they should relabel the brand to focus on the newer crowd and should closed the GU label a while ago to capture the time period. And create a new brand for this generations crowd to own and love.

Would people really care about a new compilation brand though? With mixes so readily available online it’s surely already an uphill battle to get people to pay money for a mix compilation. Plus it’s also probably more difficult now to get a DJ to put extra effort in to such a compilation when they also have so many other ways to showcase themselves than just CDs and an occasional ‘Essential Mix’.

At least GU still has a bit of historical cache and brand recognition that might encourage potential customers to pay a bit more attention, and also hopefully get the DJs to devote a bit of energy in to making it special (though the Lens one felt like a below-par promo teaser from her).

      hugopal I get where you are coming from. I think I was trying to look at it from the angle of being 21 in the scene now. Would I care about all the old GUs? Prob not as that wasn’t my scene, and I want something which represent the here and now
      My mates in our youth who were into band music didn’t want to listen to their dad’s music, but wanted their own scene. You look back now and question why my mates didn’t just listen to the stones and Beatles rather than oasis and blur. But that’s life, the youth want their scene not hang onto an old scene, no matter how good it may have been

          RichM and Hugo aka The Weeds Brothers!

          • Dan replied to this.

            I will take that as a compliment. But reckon anyone engaging in GU conversations is balls deep in the weeds

            In deep weeds, abandoned…

            Any bants? Negative

            RichM Would I care about all the old GUs? Prob not as that wasn’t my scene, and I want something which represent the here and now
            My mates in our youth who were into band music didn’t want to listen to their dad’s music, but wanted their own scene. You look back now and question why my mates didn’t just listen to the stones and Beatles rather than oasis and blur.

            Sure, but that’s why they’ve been bringing in DJs who have recent prominence like Amelie Lens and Joseph Capriati.

            People bought each year’s ’Now That’s What I Call Music’ compilation, or ‘Ministry of Sound: Annual’ compilations in their droves each year even though they’d been going on for ages - although the concept for the CDs were the same each time, the music was new. If GU were just getting Nick Warren back to do 90s prog mixes you might have more of a point.

            ‘DJ Kicks’ is also still going with newer DJs like Avalon Emerson, Peggy Gou, Honey Dijon, DJ Boring etc.

            What sort of difference in concept would you shift GU to anyway? I don’t think it’s as if the notion of a “Global Underground” shouldn’t still have appeal. What kind of other angle would greater encourage a young contemporary audience to buy mix CDs?!

                hugopal maybe that’s the problem, they are trying to stick to the same old formula that’s now redundant aka mix cds, regardless of the DJs they bring in.

                TBH I don’t know what they should do instead, am guessing it should be online, digital stuff. But how do they distinguish something different to all the other online mixes, no idea. Do they still do the concept of the mix coming from a club night? That at least was something slightly unique.

                I’ve enjoyed our time in the weeds, it’s not as bad as people make out!

                    As highlighted in a previous post, Spotify has a remarkable paucity of full length dj mixes.

                    The Watergate series is good.

                    Some of the Balance mixes are on there.

                      bosstrabs
                      Not changed for at least 10 years then.

                      Fuck Spotify off Dave. MySpace for mixed comps.

                      Buy all uncle johns CDs and your life will be remarkably less miserable (hoodies, mugs, mouse-mats and pens will also help)

                          Although, given the shite that’s about, it not being on Spotify could be a massive bonus!

                          Mad_Cyril Fuck Spotify off Dave. MySpace for mixed comps.

                          Buy all uncle johns CDs and your life will be remarkably less miserable (hoodies, mugs, mouse-mats and pens will also help)

                          I do do Soundcloud as well.

                          I think the last Bedrock CD I bought was Chris Fortier (excellent it was too, but a long time ago).

                              bosstrabs I do do Soundcloud as well

                              Great. You can access the bilge I pump out as well.

                              Listen to it whilst reading Hugo’s posts and watching Kemi on PMQ’s for maximum enjoyment 👌

                                RichM TBH I don’t know what they should do instead, am guessing it should be online, digital stuff. But how do they distinguish something different to all the other online mixes, no idea. Do they still do the concept of the mix coming from a club night? That at least was something slightly unique.

                                I don’t know, but considering that on youtube there are lots of complete live recorded mixes from sort of club nights eg Boiler Room sets and recordings from festivals and special events like Arte Concert, Dekmantel etc., the concept of a mix coming from a club night also isn’t as unique any more.

                                Releasing physical CDs and related items is actually one of the very few things that still distinguishes GU from other mostly digital-only content out there.

                                    Who is Hugo’s favourite African Islamist militia?

                                    hugopal I don’t know, but considering that on youtube there are lots of complete live recorded mixes from sort of club nights eg Boiler Room sets and recordings from festivals and special events like Arte Concert, Dekmantel etc., the concept of a mix coming from a club night also isn’t as unique any more.

                                    at risk of going further into the weeds with you, you realise that most of the GU’s after 007 are Pro Tool’d the fuck out of and not recorded live from the club, right?