Hundreds of new tracks?

[Dirty0900]

And yes, there are new songs, but Hyde doesn't want to give away how they sound yet. They have in the meantime written as many as a couple of hundred new tracks. Writing new music can easily be done on laptops in hotelrooms these days. A new album could still appear this year.
Hyde: "...but I don't want to pin myself down to anything yet."

Fucking hell, is there any truth in this? Seems very over the top, i guess you'll record excess material that wont feature but man thats a lot! Gonna be fun when something new is played over the new tour dates if its an actual song or just an impro.

[lloyd]

And we LOVE improvs

[Eikman]

i think it is realistic. i suppose your can write a lot of music during three years.

[lloyd]

Yeah and it is the way they work. Rick coming up with an idea and putting it to music. Letting it hear to Karl (and pricey) at one point and that gets them triggered. It's just what do you call a track or song I guess. Prolly theres hours and hours of outtakes and jams. Finished tracks? hmm lots ofcourse but 100's? that would be a lot indeed.

[holden]

Yeah, if music's what you do for a living, i'm sure you can generate LOADs of tunes. Moby has said that the tracks on "18" were culled from several hundred written after "Play". (Then again, as testified by the B-sides collection, most of them weren't "fully realized", to put it mildly!)
As for UW, seems like a few ideas we've heard, like "TT" and "Always loved/silver boots" have lots of time invested into them and will see the light of day. Oh, but to hear the rest!

As a sidenote on testdriving new material, something the boys did extensively with Daz, do you think the upcoming gigs will focus on new stuff (kind of how early versions of "KOS", "Push" and "Kittens" were played out before the album was finished), or as they're festival gigs, will it be UW greatest hits?

Also, how much djing does Darren Price do? i only know him as a producer. But he could also preview tracks in his sets, i'd bet.

[Leon]

Actually I kind of recognize myself in their way of working. I too jam VERY much, I've got 60 projects at the moment. Some only have beats, the other have only synths. From there on I keep adding stuff or kind of fusing different projects together. So yeah, I'm not too surprised

[undarrenworld]

Originally Posted by lloyd

And we LOVE improvs

Yeah i can confirm that