Music & Elsewhere are proud to present… The United World Underground Collection

Music & Elsewhere are proud to present a celebration of the 25th Anniversary of their first release, way back in 1992. This special collection, presented in a double Amaray clear case, contains some of the best, most original and interesting music (and elsewhere) we ever had the honour to release, featuring 30 bands / artistes from 30 countries, spanning the 5 continents of our United World Underground. The set consists of a data disc (DVD-R) containing 30 albums (mp3 format at an ear-pleasing 320kbps), 50 bonus tracks, 3 books (PDF format) and an accompanying 64 page illustrated booklet (also PDF format); plus a CD of the original UWU compilation from 2001. There’s 33 hours of underground sounds in all, plus a whole lot more, and all at the very affordable price of only £15 GBP, with the added bonus launch special of free p&p for everyone!

Here speaketh Sir Mick;

“Between the years 1992 – 2003, I had the great privilege to run the Music & Elsewhere label. Luckily, as fate would have it, I also had a calling to return to it in 2012, realising it
mattered simply too much to allow it to be lost to the annals of time. Named in tribute to one of my favourite bands, the mighty Faust, name-checking their “Munic & Elsewhere: Return Of A Legend” album (on the excellent Recommended label), M&E was one of a number of independent ‘tape labels’ that formed an integral part of a global underground network, and this collection is very much about celebrating that, as well as just the part we played within it. Looking back now, I have come to regard that network as one of the most important sociological phenomena of its time. Growing from the freedoms gained by the punk revolution, with its home produced ‘cut and paste’ fanzines and self released short-run 7” singles, its expansion had boomed throughout the 1980’s, in particular following the mass popularisation of the compact cassette, both by significant improvements in quality and the introduction of the Sony Walkman in 1979 (I still have my Panasonic one). By the the time I stumbled on it, circa the onset of the 1990’s, the underground network was already well established as a global counter-culturist community in its own right, and a whole world of wonder was waiting for me. Suddenly, a man who had never felt like he belonged anywhere before had found a real home. It’s no exaggeration to say that my years of involvement with the underground  network completely changed my life”

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