Published
Thu, Jun 29, 2006, 07:30
- RA interviews Karl Hyde from Underworld and discusses the Internet, soundtracks and the importance of having control over their music.
That hum. That sweet mechanical Underworld hum. Listen to it carefully and it becomes a chug-chug choo-choo metaphor for Underworld's journey, a hijacked train, running dark and long, laying down its own tracks with mystery and intrigue while other trains look on enviously, attempting to jump onto the bandwagon. No passengers please, just ears.
From day one Underworld have been innovators, not imitators, smashing up dancefloors with big-fish-little-fish cuts like 'Pearl's Girl', placating morning-after clubbers with 'Jumbo' and replenishing seratonin levels with 'Bruce Lee'. In 2006 their Ground Zero is being constantly revisited, now with maturity, though never losing the sweet youthful innocence that has fuelled their creativity for the last eighteen years.
RA is lucky enough to be bedfe.. err.. webfellows of the Underworld collective and thus we snapped up an exclusive interview with frontman Karl Hyde to check the pulse of his good self and Rick Smith. It turns out they have a clean bill of health, each new project bringing light in as they (almost) effortlessly continue to lay down tracks for the future. Hummmmm.