For the past year, Underworld has released a new song and video as part of its first weekly DRIFT series, which spanned 29 tracks spread over five episodes, and concluded in September. (They've since announced they're planning a second series.) Here's a favorite, "Listen to Their No," from the early-summer "Space" episode. You can watch the others here:
And here's an interview with Underworld's Karl Hyde and Rick Smith on the project:
Rick: It’s been extraordinarily stimulating. It’s made us talk, it’s made us work, it’s made us write, it’s made us experiment more. It’s made us play more. That’s the good stuff. It’s also been a lot of pressure, very long hours... But somehow, that most often turns into good stuff as well. Not always, of course, but that’s been the case here. It’s funny you ask, because I woke up this morning and it’s the first time the gravity of this date has come up. The 52 weeks... We fulfilled our promise—and it made me smile!
Karl: My thoughts are quite concurrent with Rick’s. It’s been fantastically stimulating and inspiring—to be working closer with Rick, to have a closer and more intense dialogue, to follow Rick's intents, and they’re always good intents. To have a project which, as Rick saw it at the beginning, releases our potential and our skills. It reflects the breadth of Underworld’s catalogue, or landscape. This is built out of the World of Underworld, and the World of Underworld is incredibly broad and eclectic. Everything from film music, to the opening ceremony of the Olympics, to techno, to North African blues... It’s all of those things, and a project like DRIFT kind of demands that you open up to those possibilities as artists.
Rick: It also demands, whether you like it or not, to release new material on a particular Wednesday night at two in the morning.
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