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Global Underground returns with James Lavelle mix
By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 4 September 2015
Iconic dance label Global Underground, and the DJ mix series from which the record company took its name, is relaunching with one of the brand’s co-founders, Andy Horsfield, at the helm again.
The main Global Underground series saw a plethora of DJs produce mixes based on and inspired by sets they had performed in specific locations, with the mix CDs packaged with quality photographs and extensive liner notes. Other spin off series also came out of the label, which put out multiple mix releases every year from the mid-1990s through to 2010.
The first release under the revamped GU will be ‘GU41 Naples – James Lavelle Presents UNKLESOUNDS’ which, as you might imagine, encompasses all things UNKLE, James Lavelle and Naples. In that there’ll be new UNKLE material and remixes. And a 112 page ‘Napoli Travelogue’ (in the super deluxe package). And Unkle Lavelle is pulling it all together.
Says Horsfield: “I’m really excited to be back at the helm of GU and looking forward to an exciting future for Global Underground and our artists. GU has always done things differently – it’s what we do and what we’ve built the label’s reputation upon”.
“Amazing timeless mixes by the world’s best DJs is a given, but we’ve always put a huge amount of time and effort into the album series with stunning photography and extensive sleeve notes – that’s why they’ve become so collectable, with previous limited editions now selling for a premium online.”
He concluded: “At a time when there’s a deluge of mediocre and disposable online DJ mixes its important for me to be able to give our artists an exciting and dynamic platform for their releases”.
