Underworld (group)

See also: Underworld

Underworld is a British group of electronic music which began a little before the years 1990. It is composed of three members:

  • Karl Hyde (song and guitar)
  • Rick Smith (keyboards, platinums, effects)
  • Darren Emerson (DJ) (this last left the group in 2000).

Biography

Underworld became a major stage of the electronic music in the years 1990 by an astonishing mixture of old and nine. The two men of head of the trio, the singer Karl Hyde and his accomplice guitarist Rick Smith prevailed as of the beginning of the year 1980 in the wave new wave.

After the relative failures of their the first two albums left at the end of 80 under the name of Underworld, they will recruit a young DJ raised with the sound of fright and techno, Darren Emerson. The pieces whose sonority seemed too pop were abandoned. On a sound of urban fright distilled by Emerson, Hyde will pose its murmuring and highly worked over again voice giving a surrealist environment while the Smith guitarist will affix a key blues with the unit.

The first album of the trio, Dubnobasswithmyheadman left in 1993 will be a true success, the group thus gaining the possibility of a distribution on the other side of the Atlantic. Their second opus, Second toughest in the infants polishing a little more the particular style of the group, will be also, well accommodated to him by the public. It will be sold better than the first album in particular thanks to the exit in the same time of individual the Born Slippy , appearing on the original soundtrack of the film Trainspotting .

The origin of the group goes back to the paddle of the years '80, they had then been pointed out by a hit " Doot-Doot" , (follow-up of two rather unperceived albums passed at the time) under the name of FREUR.

Underworld and the cinema

Most of their popularity will have their appearance on the tape orginale film Trainspotting of Danny Boyle in 1996 thanks to individual the Born Slippy. Thereafter, Underworld will not cease maintaining a bond with the cinema thanks to this one, another sound appearance on its film The Beach, and will go even until Co-writing the score of its film Sunshine with John Murphy in 2007. On the same model of collaboration, Underworld, helped of Gabriel Yared, composed little before the b.o of Breaking and Entering of Anthony Minghella.

Collaborations

One of the particuliarities of the group, and which makes the happiness of the fans. Each album is accompanied by an significant amount of additional exits, gathering remixes, mix and others, on which one finds signatures such as Darren Price (near collaborator to the group), Dave Clarke, Fatboy Slim, Adam Beyer, The Micronauts, and more recently Paul Woolford. They also carried out remix many other artists such as for example Depeche Mode, Björk, Simply Red, Leftfield, Chemical Brothers.

Discography

  • Underneath The Radar (1988)

  • Exchange The weather (1989)
  • Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993)
  • Second toughest in the infants (1996)
  • Much fish (1998)
  • Everything, everything (2000)
  • has Hundred Days Off (2002)
  • Breaking And Entering Gabriel Yared (Film Original soundtrack) (2006)
  • Sunshine John Murphy (Film Original soundtrack) (2007)
  • Oblivion with Bells album (2007)

External bonds

  • Official site of Underworld

  • MySpace de Underworld
  • Fan Site " not-official officiel" of Underworld

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