Underwater Records, the label originally founded by the popular Darren Emerson as a little sideline to his then day-job in the pioneering band; Underworld, has made it to it’s 50th release. And in fitting style Darren will be releasing a 4 track EP entitled ‘H20 050’ EP to mark the special occasion. His first release on the label since May 2002.
T-World’s ‘Anthem’ was the first release on Underwater (T-World were actually Gus Gus before they were gus gus), with following tracks from Eddie Wolf, Short Fiction, Publiq Space, Ned Flanders (AKA Emerson himself), Cliff Hanger and more. In 1996 the label went off the boil for a few years, to come back in 2000 with Meeker’s ‘Save Me’, before releasing Tim Deluxes track ‘Sirens/We All Love Sax’ in 2001 and thus kicking off his solo efforts for the label which have kept it firmly in the public eye. When asked what we can expect from the future of the label Darren gives an insight into them moving away from just a house sound We’ve got new signings from Pnau, which is a great Ozzie band I picked up and a different sound for Underwater. We’ve got the new Sharam Jey album which kind of hits up a bit more of the electro angle , Schmoov on the deeper tip, a Greg Churchill album, Paul Jackson album, bits and bobs from Emerson and a great track from Eyer and Chopstix called ‘She Loves It’ – I reckon it will be a big club-hit. Very dirty, got a vocal kind of like The Streets.
The 4 EP’s will include ‘Chicago Mousse’, Beats In The Box’, Detroit Music People’ and ‘Saturday Night’. It will be released January 24, 2005 and will not be included on Darren Emerson’s forthcoming artist album.