[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.

[5] Karl Hyde and Rick Smith's aim was to release new and previously unreleased music, film, and written stories throughout a full year, on a weekly basis, every Thursday, "and see where the journey took them.

[13] The majority of Drift music videos was directed by Taylor, shot "from Shibuya Crossing to the Moroccan desert to rural Essex.

Compositions of the first year of Drift feature collaborations with the Australian experimental jazz band The Necks, London producer Ø [Phase] aka Ashley Burchett,[14] actor Matthew Trevannion,[15] members of the rock band Black Country, New Road (including Georgia Ellery, Lewis Evans,[16] and Karl Hyde's daughter Tyler Hyde[17]), as well as Ichirou Agata of the Japanese noise rock band Melt-Banana.

You don't have weekends" — and regretted how the rapid schedule made collaborating with other artists difficult, desiring to build more time into a second series.

These releases were often curated by Junior Boy's Own founder Steven Hall, and were compiled in a digital download for the Drift Series 1 box set.

We’re already there, though, we’re just trying to figure out how to roll it out," and elaborated "Drift has always been happening, and Series 2 is merely a chosen starting point: a time and place.

[26] Drift Series 1 is the tenth studio album by the British electronic group Underworld, released on 1 November 2019.

With the September 2020 re-release of Drift Series 1, an eighth CD was introduced with the live-set entitled RicksDubbedOutDriftExperience, recorded at Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam on 23 November 2019.

Mixmag applauded the album "absolutely stunning": "[While] certainly raw and reminiscent of a free-flowing jam session at times, what's particularly commendable is how beautifully produced each track is, with a discernible intention toward the arrangement of layers to establish powerful, thematic settings.

[citation needed] The following is a chronological list of tracks released subsequently as digital Drift EPs.

[6] The following is a chronological list of previously unreleased tracks, remixes, continuous mixes, and live rehearsal recordings, published on Thursdays, between Series 1 Episodes.