Description
Label Review.
2019 album. Also available on Vinyl, Coloured Vinyl, and Deluxe Box Set.
Our Overview.
Underworld are Karl Hyde and Rick Smith who have been on their music making journey for the last 40 years. From their early synth pop dabblings as Freur in the mid-80s to the huge hit as Underworld in 1996 - “Born Slippy” they have constantly tried to find new directions for their particular brand of electronic music.
Their latest sonic trip began on 1st November 2018 when Underworld released the track “Another Silent Way” and set off with no map, no fixed destination and a simple mantra (“Drift is the opposite of ‘normal’ or ‘usual’ practice; we’ll do this until we’re dust.”) ‘Rick Smith and Karl Hyde’s aim was to create and publish music and film episodically for 52 weeks and see where the journey took them. Within a few weeks, the experiment found its own path, prompting the electronic pioneers to react to previous releases and create new works accordingly. Over time, the duo’s innate curiosity opened up a unique space in which they could experiment, learn and explore new frontiers - together and with others (including Tomato’s Simon Taylor, Australian improv-trance band The Necks, techno producer Ø [Phase], Japanese noise band Melt-Banana, economics writer Aditya Chakrabortty and members of Black Country, New Road). During the 52 weeks, five self-contained episodes were released (respectively in November, January, March, May and August) - collectively, they formed DRIFT Series 1.