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October 8, 2003

Underworld Compile "Anthology"

Double-disc rarities set due next month
August 15, 2002

Underworld Offer Preview in Ibiza

Ibiza unleashes a new round of dance releases
March 15, 2002

New Underworld Due in Fall

Album to be group's first without Darren Emerson
August 25, 2000

Underworld Talk About "Everything"

Karl Hyde on "Everything" and post-Darren Emerson Underworld

Recordings and Reviews

A Hundred Days Off

Most dance music is about doing the wild thing, but Underworld songs aren't about sex so much as unrequited, frustrated, information-age lust. With the elegant, troubled throb of A Hundred Days Off, singer Karl Hyde and producer Rick Smith suggest that a crowded discothque can be a very lonely...

2002 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Beaucoup Fish

1999

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Biography

Karl Hyde (vocals) and Rick Smith (guitar) were just another couple of new-wave wankers until DJ Darren Emerson joined them in 1990, helping reenvision Hyde's moody sonnets for a techno-conscious world. The crew eventually became so successful at programming subversiveness into the commercial realm they've even formed a cutting-edge graphic-design company, Tomato, boasting Pepsi and Nike as client...

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