About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Underworld, Above & Beyond, Juno Reactor, Eat Static, Utah Saints, Faithless, N-Trance, Sunscreem, Aurora, Neo & Farina, Tin Tin Out, Dreadzone, Younger Brother, Agnelli & Nelson, OceanLab, Lost Witness, The Space Brothers, Children of Dub, O.O.O.D., Jake Williams, Lustral, Dimension 5, Opus III, Flip & Fill, Tilt, Liquid, Banco de Gaia, Moodswings, Subgiant, Leama & Moor, Binary Finary, Salt Tank, Planet Perfecto, Lost Tribe, Astralasia, Dubblehead, The Infinity Project, Dogzilla, Grace, Union Jack, Luminary, Aspekt, Cosmosis, Eyeopener, Bedrock, Slinky Wizard, Unconscious Collective, Odessi, Technossomy. Excerpt: Underworld are a British electronic group, and principal name under which duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded together since 1980. Hyde and Smith began their musical partnership with the Kraftwerk and reggae-inspired sounds of The Screen Gemz while working together in a diner in the city of Cardiff, where both had been studying. They were then joined by bass player Alfie Thomas, drummer Bryn Burrows, and keyboardist John Warwicker and formed a proto-electroclash/new romantic band whose name was a graphic squiggle, which was subsequently given the pronunciation Freur. The band signed to CBS Records, and went on to release the albums Doot-Doot in 1983, and Get Us out of Here in 1986. The band disbanded in 1986. In 1987 Hyde, Smith, Thomas, Burrows and bass player Baz Allen formed the band Underworld which tried a more guitar-oriented funky electropop sound. The band signed to Sire Records and released the album Underneath the Radar in 1988, and following the departure of Burrows the album Change the Weather in 1989. This version of the band disbanded in 1990. (The Underworld of this period is now often referred to as "Underworld Mk1.") After a break (to concentrate on, among other things, art/design ...
