2025 Reissue
2LP, Remastered, 180g
2LP, Remastered, 180g
Smith Hyde Productions (2025) WW
2024 Remaster. 180gsm heavy weight black double vinyl. Cut at half speed and meticulously checked for the highest quality audio.
Double gatefold with the classic design from the original pressing but with added spine detail to showcase your collection.
Having shifted the tides of UK rave culture several times over by Y2K, it seemed perfectly appropriate for Underworld to have earned a little paid time off. By then paired back down to the original duo of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, 2002’s A Hundred Days Off does carry the subtle air of being on the dole, or at least off the coast of a remote island somewhere. Indeed there’s something distinctly tropical about this record’s headier first half, all shakers and maracas on top of those pulsing kicks and electric piano runs. However, the back half drops you right back to the warehouse, especially those air raid siren synth stabs on the hardcore-flavoured ‘Dinosaur Adventure 3D’. All in a day’s work for Underworld in their imperial phase.