Underworld didn't want to be an 'old' band

Underworld have said that they were more than happy to work with several younger artists on their upcoming album.

Founding duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith collaborated with Dubfire, Mark Knight & D. Ramirez, Appleblim & Al Tourettes and Paul van Dyk on Barking, which is released on September 13.

Hyde told Metro: "We didn't want to be in an 'old' band. Our heroes were people such as Miles Davis, Bowie and Picasso, who had the ability to constantly reinvent themselves.

"They didn't have a problem working with younger people. We've always been about jamming, and passing ideas back and forth. When we were working with Anthony Minghella [on the soundtrack for 2006's Breaking And Entering], he'd get us in to talk about film edits."

He added: "When Rick and I came together in the early 1980s, we were listening to a lot of German electronica and Jamaican reggae. We'd always come back to making sounds to make your body move.

"And for 17, 18 years we'd walk out on stage with no set list and just improvise. Underworld was based on a concept of disaster - whenever something went wrong, the audience would get excited because you'd have to use your intuition."