Transglobal Underground 'best of' album to be released

Musical pioneers Transglobal Underground have announced details of their forthcoming Best Of album. Entitled Run Devils and Demons. It will be released on 13th April 2009 via Nascente / Demon Music.

Combining percussive-heavy Asian, Afro, and Arabic flavours with Gypsy rhythms, Dancehall, Dub, Acid House, Breakbeat, Drum 'n' Bass and more, Run Devils & Demons celebrates the pioneering career of the unique London based collective. Fusing punk's 'anything goes' ethos with dance music's wilful eclecticism and the technical skills of some of the world's finest musicians, TGU have been a shining light on the global music scene for two decades.

Compiled by the band themselves, alongside Nascente regular Phil Meadley (who interviewed the band for the sleeve-notes), Run Devils and Demons is the first compilation to pull together all the greatest hits, club smashes and live favourites from TGU's entire career in one place. The double disc album includes Rude Buddha: the soundtrack to the Smirnoff 'Not the usual' Russian doll ad campaign of 2004; Their debut release: the anthemic Templehead, and recent single Dancehall Operator from their critically acclaimed 2007 album, Moonshout.

From playing live in every corner of the world to receiving international critical acclaim for their constant barrage of genre-defining, pioneering albums, Transglobal Underground have not only been one of Britain's finest musical outfits for 2 Decades, but helped launch the careers of a huge cast of world class musicians.

Still making music as current and relevant as the day they first started, 2008 was something of a red-letter year for Transglobal Underground. Having ridden a wave of popular resurgence after the release of their critically acclaimed 7th studio album Moonshout in 2007 they were rewarded with not 1 but 2 major BBC Awards (A Radio 3 Award for World Music, and a Radio 2 Folk Award for their contribution to the Imagined Village Project), which also earned a performance on Later…With Jools Holland. Festival appearances across Europe included Wychwood, WOMAD, Beautiful Days and Bestival.

2009 looks set to be another fantastic year for the band and they will be touring this album worldwide with gig/festival dates throughout 2009.

Tracklisting:

CD1
1 Temple head / 2 Shimmers (Run devils and demons mix) / 3 Chariots (radio edit) / 4 Delta disco / 5 Yellow and black taxi cab / 6 Body machine / 7 Rude buddha / 8 The Khaleegi stomp (Thievery Corporation remix) / 9 Taal zaman / 10 This is the army of forgotten souls / 11 Ancient dreams of the sky / 12 I, voyager / 13 Sky giant

CD2
1 International times (Lionrock kick da flavour remix) / 2 Scorch (Vinyl version) / 3 Emotional yoyo / 4 Lookee here (Dreadzone at the controls remix) / 5 Dancehall operator / 6 Kingsland meltdown / 7 The Sikh man and the rasta / 8 Armchair cowboys clash / 9 Ali Mullah / 10 Mera jhumka / 11 Boss tabla (radio edit) / 12 Lexicona / 13 Drums of Navarone (live)