Various Artists
XL Chapter VI
Twenty years after the 5th Chapter, the story continues. Chapter VI celebrates the very best of today's UK underground.
Twenty years is a long time. When XL Recordings released The 5th Chapter in 1995 Ecstasy, jungle and hardcore were shaping club culture in the UK and defining the way that a generation of youth moved, sounded and looked.
The government had just passed the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act in a bid to kill off free parties, the tabloids doggedly printed page after page on the sins of raving, while the soundsystems of Britain rumbled hard underground.
Two decades later and our world is unrecognisable. Kids MC off phones at the back of buses, artists collaborate without ever meeting and ecstasy came, went and came again. But one thing has always remained defiantly present – the underground.
| 2x12inch | XL Recordings: XLLP736 | out of stock |
