Koud een paar weken na de eerste samenwerking op CD tussen Brian Eno en Karl Hyde (Underworld) verschijnt er nóg een full length album! "High Life" is zeer anders dan voorganger "Someday World". Veel meer in de lijn van moderne componisten als Steve Reich, Phillip Glass en Brian Eno. De ritmes zijn motorischer, meer krautrock. Met af en toe een sterke groove in de lijn van Fela Kutis afrobeat. When "Someday World" was finished I felt like we were still on a roll and I wasn't ready to stop working and get into 'promotional mode' for that record. So I suggested we immediately start on another album, a different one, where we extended some of the ideas we'd started, and attempted some of the ideas we hadn't. - Brian Eno. I wanted to work with a stripped down set of equipment... For this album I was very keen for Brian to live process my guitar playing so that we would be effecting one anothers performance, bouncing off each other, inspiring new combinations of polyrhythms. - Karl Hyde (bron: Warp/V2)
