Drift (Underworld project)
Drift is the ongoing music-and-video experiment by the British electronic music group Underworld, launched on 1 November 2018, with consecutive tracks and music videos having been released online, on a weekly basis. Individual new tracks were made available through the band's official website, as time-limited free downloads, along with accompanying videos published on YouTube — followed by collective "episodes" released as digital EPs on music streaming platforms. Throughout the first year of Drift, 38 new tracks were released within five Episodes and an additional soundtrack album. It is the band's second project distributed digitally, after the 2005–2006 series Riverrun.
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Original cover for the collective Drift playlist featured on music streaming platforms | ||||
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| Released | 1 November 2018 onwards | |||
| Recorded | 2018 onwards | |||
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| Length | Episode 1: 30:33 Episode 2: 85:14 Episode 3: 43:59 Episode 4: 38:10 Episode 5: 44:34 Manchester Street Poem: 64:50 | |||
| Label | Smith Hyde Productions | |||
| Director | Tomato Simon Taylor | |||
| Producer | Rick Smith | |||
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Underworld planned to conclude Drift after its 52-week run with a collective album, but decided to continue the project for another year. On 1 November 2019, an album Drift Series 1, compiling all EPs and featuring additional 11 new tracks, was released as a 7-CD, 1 Blu-ray box set, as well as digitally, along with a single-disc Drift Series 1 Sampler Edition. In September 2020, Drift Series 1 was re-released, with additional eighth CD with a live performance.