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Underworld, today, it is Rick Smith, Karl Hyde and Darren Emerson. How are you located the ones compared to the others?

Darren Emerson: Rick plays of the keyboard and passes much from time in studio. It is the motive fluid of the group, that which always pushes us with going from the front one. Rick is also that which makes hold the things together. It is the element pivot around whose two different musical designs are articulated: that represented by Karl, which sings and plays of the guitar and mine, resulting from my experiment as DJ. This collaboration learned to me enormously from things. On the first album, my intervention was limited to the choice of the sounds and general working of the pieces. From now on, I also intervene as of the stage of the composition. We work initially on our premises, because we have each one our own studio. I develop my intuitions in an autonomous way, I program loops and evolutions of sequences then I bring the result at Rick and we mix our ideas. I invested myself much more in the music than I was it before. Now, I also have my own productions, i.e. in more of the remixes I create pieces completely resulting from my inspiration.

Do you regard really Underworld as a group?

If you want to call it like that, why not? We are persuaded that our collaboration gave rise to a completely new music because it comes from various sources of inspiration. Me, for example, I am pure produced electronic music and scratching. I degraded myself with them by accident. I met Rick via his brother-in-law, because I wanted to record in his studio and that wished to him to work with a DJ. Finally, we met and we realized a few pieces on which Karl came to add voices and guitars. Fusion truly took place at this time, my influences mixed with their gave something of exceptional: Underworld. Today, if we lay out each one of our home-studio to develop the bases of our music, that does not prevent us from often finding us in the same studio to work together. With the end of the process, we gather all our ideas and let us join we them together.

In spite of the success of Underworld, you continuous to produce you like DJ every weekend?

Yes, I was always DJ. Thus I started and I did not want to change that. I never ceased mixer. Even if I learned much in studio, I remain before a whole DJ. I like enough not always not to give to understand the same kind of music as that which I do with Underworld. I like that to exploit various registers. Perhaps that pieces more directed towards the scene club like are those which are reproduced on the maximumones of Underworld are marked by my style. But for the albums, we want a sound different, with more voice, like an invitation with the voyage. Underworld in concert, it is still other thing...

When you are listened to mixer, one realizes that you do not focus yourself solely on the techno. As DJ, with which other styles you are also sensitive?

I also play of the house, but not the kind "housy-garagy", not of "waouw, baby"... Something which approaches more the spirit which reigns in Chicago. Curiously, whereas one perceives a certain influence of the breakbeat in the music of Underworld, you master keys not of pieces jungle.

You do not like that?

If, I like much. Not so much the bass & drum, rather the deep-jungle. You see the difference? One is much closer to the perception of space. I do not have discs jungle badly, but I keep them to listen to them at home. I do not play about it as DJ because I leave that with truths DJs jungle which do it better than me. On our second album, there are a few pieces of inspiration jungle. They are voluntarily rather slow, in the neighbourhoods of 90 bpm, but take again sets of cymbals characteristic doubled of a reason behind bottom on a rate/rhythm more vibrating.

On scene, Underworld offers a very intense spectacle. It is really smelled that there is a DJ in the group. Is this your way of introducing the rates/rhythms into the music which carries the public at the edge of the madness?

At the beginning, I used cassettes on which I had recorded the rates/rhythms as a preliminary. Into live, I mixed these rates/rhythms the ones with the others. That gave indeed the impression to hear a DJ. But now all that we make on scene is entirely played on line. At the time of our last concerts, we occurred in company of a DJ: Darren Price. We played three or four pieces then we withdrew ourselves; it mixed and we returned on scene. That lasted like that during approximately three hours. We do not want to lock up us in a routine, we always seek to present a different spectacle in which we leave the place with the improvisation. They is besides very exciting to find itself on scene with Underworld because it is known that at any time that can foirer.

A last precision: who hides behind Underwater?

Friends and sometimes ourselves when we want to realize pieces under another name.

You know that it is currently very difficult to get the discs of Underwater?

Yes, that remains underground for the moment and we prefer that that remains thus. We do not seek to make promotion of it because we want that the sauce takes slowly. This music requires that one let it live all alone, if it is rather good it will make its hole. In fact productions approach more deep house techno than of than one is accustomed to hearing on behalf of Underworld. In the future, I think that we will have each one our own productions and that we will find ourselves to produce a disc every approximately two years.

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