This was at the height of the sewage fire called “EDM” (instagram kids turned popstars dancing in front of turntables posing for pictures, throwing cake, etc). Underworld came back and showed what it was really all about.

I don’t know (or care) if Karl is a homosexual but in America—for all its forced inclusivity and pro-minority censorship—this whole thing looked “weird” and “gay” and not in the cool, marketable, sense. So having this on television was, in a non-self-conscious way, a political statement; a bigger one than cheap politics can deliver. (Which is what Moby never understood.) I think this was their first and only appearance on American television. (Big ups to Jimmy Fallon for showing them respect and engaging the crowd for them at the end.)

“Punk became subservient to the music industry. It offered rebellion and outsider culture but didn’t deliver it, whereas Rave and Dance culture didn’t even promise it but delivered it.” — Karl Hyde

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