A lament to the moon, rising huge, full and orange into a starless sky. A healing hand, a calm between storms, a safe place, benevolent and compassionate. Put on some headphones, lay back and drift.
Underworld: “Brilliant Yes That Would Be was recorded after we played a show at Sonar in Reykjavik. It was the first time we’d been there in twenty-odd years and I think we’d forgotten just how jaw dropping the environment is. This track was our immediate response to that landscape, filtered through two beautiful Russian synthesizers that had arrived at the studio in Essex the week before.”
Tomato’s Simon Taylor created a film inspired by the track and a low level flight he made across the Icelandic Landscape, watch the full video on Underworld’s YouTube channel
credits
from DRIFT Series 1 - Sampler Edition,
released June 12, 2020
Produced by Rick Smith
Written by Rick Smith and Karl Hyde
Rick Smith & Karl Hyde are published by Mute Song Ltd. (PRS) for the world excluding the USA, Canada and Mexico and by Big Deal Beats (BMI) administered by Words & Music for USA, Canada and Mexico.
All tracks performed by Rick Smith and Karl Hyde
(p) & (c) 2018 Smith Hyde Productions
Year Recorded 2018
If touring was possible, these are the sounds I’d be chilling out to in my bus bunk after getting off stage from another night of banging techno. (Karl Hyde/Underworld). Underworld
THREE is fantastic! ‘Bloom’ is pure, unpredictable, relentless sonic nectar. The Necks are an animal machine, painters of landscapes that make my head feel good. - (Karl Hyde - Underworld) Underworld
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Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
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