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UNDERWORLD 1987–present https://underworldlive.com/

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Underworld are a British electronic group, and principal name under which duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together since 1983, though they have also worked together under various names both before and after adopting the Underworld moniker. The band is perhaps best known for “Born Slippy Nuxx”, a track made popular in the Danny Boyle 1996 hit film Trainspotting. The first two albums they recorded together were with the band ‘Freur’.

Trainspotting and breakthrough[edit]

The band’s 1996 album, Second Toughest in the Infants, was their second studio album with Emerson and achieved a degree of commercial success, due in part to its release coinciding with that of the film Trainspotting. The film featured “Dark & Long (Dark Train)”, as well as the band’s most commercially successful track to date, “Born Slippy.NUXX“, which was originally released only as a B-side of a single and does not appear on the Second Toughest album. The single and the album showed Underworld maturing as a trio, mixing elements of techno, house, drum and bass and experimental music. “Born Slippy.NUXX” is one of Underworld’s best-known tracks and is celebrated as one of the greatest dance tracks of the decade. The track has since sold over a million copies and appeared on countless compilations, mashups and remixes

Studio albums

EPs

Further information: Riverrun (Underworld project)

  • 2005 – Lovely Broken Thing
  • 2005 – Pizza for Eggs
  • 2006 – I’m a Big Sister, and I’m a Girl, and I’m a Princess, and This Is My Horse
  • 2006 – The Misterons Mix

Band members[edit]

Current members

  • Karl Hyde – vocals, guitars (1987–present)
  • Rick Smith – keyboards and mixing, backing vocals (1987–present)

Former members

  • Bryn Burrows – drums (1987–1988)
  • Alfie Thomas – guitars, keyboards, bass (1987–1990)
  • Baz Allen – bass (1987–1990)
  • Pascal Consoli – drums (1989–1990)
  • Darren Emerson – keyboards and mixing (1991–2001)

Touring members

  • Darren Price – keyboards and mixing (2005–2016)[42]

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