Drift (Underworld project)

Drift
Initial cover of the Drift playlist on streaming platforms
Recording by
Underworld
Released1 November 2018 (2018-11-01) onwards
Recorded2018 onwards
Genre
LengthEpisode 1: 30:33
Episode 2: 85:14
Episode 3: 43:59
Episode 4: 38:10
Episode 5: 44:34
Manchester Street Poem: 64:50
LabelSmith Hyde Productions
DirectorTomato
Simon Taylor
ProducerRick Smith
Underworld chronology
Teatime Dub Encounters
(2018) 		Drift
(2018–2019) 		Drift Series 1
(2019)
Singles from Drift
  1. "Drift Episode 1 — Dust"
    Released: 6 December 2018
  2. "Drift Episode 2 — Atom"
    Released: 7 March 2019
  3. "Drift Episode 3 — Heart"
    Released: 2 May 2019
  4. "Drift Episode 4 — Space"
    Released: 4 July 2019
  5. "Drift Episode 5 — Game"
    Released: 19 September 2019

Drift is the 2018–2019 music-and-video experiment by the British electronic music group Underworld,[1][2] with consecutive tracks and music videos released online on a weekly basis, between November 2018 and October 2019.[3] 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 digital EPs.

From 1 November 2018, throughout the first year of Drift, 38 new tracks were released within five Episodes, an additional soundtrack album Manchester Street Poem, as well as 20 archival tracks and mixes.[4] It is the band's second project distributed digitally, after the 2005–2006 series Riverrun.

On 1 November 2019, an album Drift Series 1, compiling all EPs and 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, including an additional eighth CD with a live performance.[5]

  1. ^ "DRIFT series launched". Underworld. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  2. ^ Underworld (6 December 2018), Underworld - DRIFT Episode 1 "Dust", retrieved 19 April 2019
  3. ^ "Underworld - #Drift - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  4. ^ "DRIFT - An ongoing experiment by Underworld". Underworld. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  5. ^ "A new remodelled, compact edition of the DRIFT box set is available now". Underworld. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2022.