Karl Hyde

Best known as the vocalist for the electronic act <a href="spotify:artist:1PXHzxRDiLnjqNrRn2Xbsa">Underworld</a>, Londoner Karl Hyde was also in the pre-<a href="spotify:artist:1PXHzxRDiLnjqNrRn2Xbsa">Underworld</a> group <a href="spotify:artist:6MrHEQVD40SO8XWTBNELkl">Freur</a> and maintains a solo career as well. The roots of <a href="spotify:artist:1PXHzxRDiLnjqNrRn2Xbsa">Underworld</a> go back to the dawn of the 1980s, when Hyde and musician Rick Smith formed a pop-reggae group, the Screen Gemz, and then the new wave band called <a href="spotify:artist:6MrHEQVD40SO8XWTBNELkl">Freur</a>, who would release the minor hit "Doot Doot" in 1983. An early edition of <a href="spotify:artist:1PXHzxRDiLnjqNrRn2Xbsa">Underworld</a> was formed in 1987, but it would be 1991, when DJ <a href="spotify:artist:2vePaJjwrZ6zVLAxf6UrCy">Darren Emerson</a> joined the group and Hyde's lyric writing took on a more surreal, "cut-up" style, that the group found success. <a href="spotify:artist:1PXHzxRDiLnjqNrRn2Xbsa">Underworld</a> tracks like "Born Slippy NUXX" and "Jumbo" became hits, and eventually dance music classics, while the group withstood the 2002 departure of <a href="spotify:artist:2vePaJjwrZ6zVLAxf6UrCy">Emerson</a>, releasing hit albums and successfully touring as a duo afterward. In 2013, Hyde introduced his solo career with the album Edgeland, a more experimental effort than the usual <a href="spotify:artist:1PXHzxRDiLnjqNrRn2Xbsa">Underworld</a> release. The following year he collaborated with <a href="spotify:artist:7MSUfLeTdDEoZiJPDSBXgi">Brian Eno</a>, helping to turn a collection of the producer's unfinished intros into pop songs. Someday World was released in May of 2014. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi