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Underworld is the principal name under which British electronic music duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded since the late 1970s.

Hyde and Smith began

Underworld is the principal name under which British electronic music duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have recorded since the late 1970s.

Hyde and Smith began their musical partnership with the Kraftwerk and Reggae inspired sounds of The Screen Gemz while studying together at Cardiff Art College, and in 1983 recorded two albums for CBS Records with proto-electroclash New Romantics Freur, who renamed themselves Underworld in 1986 and tried a more guitar-oriented funky electropop sound on two albums for Sire before disbanding in 1990.