British electronic music duo
Underworld
Get to know the artist
Underworld are the electronic partnership of Rick Smith and Karl Hyde. Their music connects techno rhythms, layered melodies and distinctive vocal fragments, with recorded albums and live performance offering different views of the same creative partnership.
- Explore the catalogue
Dubnobasswithmyheadman, released in 1994, is an early entry into their electronic catalogue. Strawberry Hotel offers a later album-length route, with tracks including denver luna, Techno Shinkansen and and the colour red.
- Formed in
- Romford
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active since
- 1987
- First RA show
- 2002 · Old Liverpool Airfield, Liverpool
- On RA
- 284 shows in 39 countries
- Released on
- V2, Tronic, Freestyle Dust, Underworldlive.com, Junior Boy's Own, Gravity Groove
- RA followers
- 64,291
- Plays
- TechnoElectronica
Their label
UnderworldLive
Founder · Source: MusicBrainz
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- RA.080 Underworld ↗
Resident Advisor podcast · Nov 2007
In our cities
- 26 shows · last Aug 2025 at Burgess Park
- 14 shows · last Dec 2025 at Carriageworks
- 9 shows · last Nov 2019 at Ziggo Dome
- 7 shows · last Nov 2024 at Berghain | Panorama Bar | Säule
- 5 shows · last Sep 2026 at Knockdown Center
- 5 shows · last Sep 2017 at Odaiba Ultra Park
- 4 shows · last Dec 2025 at Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Upcoming across cities
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