Karl Hyde

Karl Hyde (born 10 May 1957) is an English musician, composer and artist. He is a founding member of British electronic group Underworld. Hyde has also released a solo album, made albums with Brian Eno and Matthew Herbert, and contributed towards the score for the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony alongside his Underworld bandmate Rick Smith.

He is a founding member of the multi-discipline design and film collective Tomato and has published several books.

Career Hyde grew up in Bewdley, England. He moved to Cardiff in the late 1970s to study at Cardiff College of Art. There he formed the new wave-synthpop band Freur in 1982 with Rick Smith and Alfie Thomas. The band released two albums, Doot-Doot (1983) and Get Us Out of Here (1986), before renaming themselves as Underworld in 1987. In 1992, the band had relocated to Romford, London, after the addition of Darren Emerson to their line-up. After Emerson left the band in 2000, Hyde and Smith remained active as a duo, and have continued to record since. It was released worldwide on 22 April that year through Universal. It was co-produced by Leo Abrahams.

In 2014, Hyde collaborated with English musician and record producer Brian Eno on the album Someday World, which was released on Warp. The first single from this album, "The Satellites", was released in March 2014. Within weeks of the album's release, it was announced that a second album, High Life, would be released on 30 June (1 July in North America), also through Warp. In 2017, he collaborated with the director Simon Graham and the playwright Simon Stephens to produce the play Fatherland at the Royal Exchange in Manchester.

Hyde performed at Coachella 2023.

Personal life Hyde's daughter, Tyler Hyde, performs in the experimental rock band Black Country, New Road.

Discography With the Screen Gemz I Just Can't Stand Cars / Teenage Teenage (7" Single, 1979)

With Freur

With Underworld

Solo album by Hyde Edgeland (Universal, 2013) – co-produced by Leo Abrahams

Singles by Hyde "Cut Clouds" (Universal, 2013) "The Boy with the Jigsaw Puzzle Fingers" (Universal, 2013)

Albums with others Someday World (Warp, 2014) – with Brian Eno High Life (Warp, 2014) – with Brian Eno Fatherland (Original Music from the Stage Show) (Universal, 2017) – with Matthew Herbert

Publications Publication by Hyde I Am Dogboy: The Underworld Diaries. London: Faber and Faber, 2016. . Contains diary entries, autobiographical writing, photographs and abstract poetry.

Publications paired with John Warwicker Mmm ... Skyscraper I Love You: a Typographic Journal of New York. London: Booth-Clibborn, 2002. . In the Belly of Saint Paul. Underworld Print, 2003. .