Underworld Interview: Extending the Creative Conversation - Metrowize
MW: Anyone, new or old on the scene who you’d like to collaborate with?
KH: Santigold opened for us the other day in Italy; we really dug what was happening on stage there
Interview: Karl Hyde of Underworld - The Scenestar
SS: It seems like you’ve really honed in on that concept being a stabilizer of the band. Is this something that has existed since day one?
Karl Hyde: I think a lot of it comes from Rick’s Welshness. It’s a very Celtic thing too I suppose. We tried the whole ego-trip thing in the ’80s, trying to be rockstars, where the frontman thought he was amazing and behaved like he was some kind of superstar, and it just didn’t work. But when Rick reinvented the band in the ’90s, we became part of DJ culture before there were superstar DJs. It was about the music, and egos couldn’t get in the way. And I think if you put those two things together, Rick’s Celtic mentality with a scene that grew out of a place for egos, that became the roots of Underworld.
Underworld On The Edge - Soundproof
"I think if you'd have asked me as a teenager what would be my wildest, wildest fantasy of how things might turn out, I don't think it would have come close to what we're feeling about where we're at. Rick and I have been working together for 30 years . . . that's mental! That's really mad, isn't it?"