The Unlikely Harmony Between Iggy Pop and Underworld
Two musical giants collide in <em>Teatime Dub Encounters</em> to produce a fascinating dialogue between old-school rock and New Age electronic.
Their intention was to make some music for , the sequel to Danny Boyle’s . Despite his condition of semiretiredness, Iggy Pop met Underworld, the puckish elders of British electronic music, in a room in London’s Savoy hotel. They all knew each other from the original film’s soundtrack—Iggy’s rave-up “Lust for Life” was featured near the beginning of the movie, while Underworld’s “Born Slippy,” an abstract banger slashed open by the chanted, overload poetry of the front man Karl Hyde, was close to the end. At
