There is a moment in every cultural shift where the room finally tunes in. For dance music in the United States, that moment was somewhere around the turn of the millennium, and Global Underground 019 is one of the records that captured it. Not EDM. That word did not yet exist in any meaningful form, and the culture it would later describe was nowhere near the surface. This was American audiences finally catching up with electronic music as Europe had understood it for the best part of a decade. Underground. Album-led. DJ-led. A sound the floor had to meet halfway. Once it landed, it changed everything.
Global Underground 019:…
