Hundred Weight Hammer

from DRIFT Episode 4: SPACE by Underworld

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Woozy, low-slung, detuned, twanging, questing, nagging, dissonant, dreaming… Hundred Weight Hammer is a pure disorientation groove.

Hundred Weight Hammer’s brilliantly weird urban voodoo visual was created by tomato’s Simon Taylor. “I made the masks in the studio with my assistant Leina. The performers are actors, dancers and architects. What was really interesting to see was how they each chose and inhabited their own masks, then brought them to life. These inanimate objects suddenly became human.”

Hundred Weight Hammer features Tyler from Black Country New Road on bass.

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Hundred Weight Hammer

I wish

I wish I was flying!
I wish I was a bird!
Crossing oceans
Crossing cities
Crossing it all out!

I wish I was a surfer riding waves
I wish I was Bram Stoker paddling in the sea at Whitby
I wish I was a genius with ALL the answers

What’s the panic?
What’s the rush?
The answer’s in the back of the book

What’s the panic?
What’s the rush?
The answer’s in the back of the book

Now I’m flying

I wish I was a bird flying all around the world

Everything looking beautiful
Hey baby!

I’d see everything comin’

Now I’m flying over glaciers
Snow covered mountains
Blue sky forever
I’m hanging from a balloon
Laughing
Laughing
Away from the thick of it
Now I’m on a camel train
Crossing over to the other side

Now I’m flying

I wish I was a bird!
Crossing it ALL out!
Dancing in the light

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from DRIFT Episode 4: SPACE, released June 8, 2020
Produced by Rick Smith
Written and Performed by Rick Smith and Karl Hyde
Bass performed by Tyler 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.
(p) & (c) 2019 Smith Hyde Productions.
Year of Recording 2019

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