Underworld - Drift

look the pandemic started as soon as Drift 1 stopped so maybe Drift 2 can end it

i had the less controversial thought that Nov 1 will be the third anniversary of the start of the thing.

They really could have been churning out Drift At Home EPs of ambient Rick stuff for the last year

irl lol xps

they've never really sat still over the last 40 years so I'd imagine they've got *something* going on

i should remember this as i read the box's book and the episode 2 online notes and whatever else but...i don't get the feeling that very much (any?) of the Drift tracks were conceived, brand new, week to week. More that it was a massive clearing of the decks, fleshing out an existing idea or demo week to week. I imagine they've been building the stockpile back up.

and maybe finishing a few things in advance for Rick's sanity this time round

the thing about that there are like 2 dozen unreleased tracks that have been played live once or released as demos online or played on a random radio show and I don't think elements of any of them wound up here. the only real callback is the "Lenny Penne" beat in "S T A R"

idk if any of the tracks were just like "here's something we did yesterday" but I'd guess a ton of it was written after Episode 1 was started

Is there that much? "Are You Rockstar" was one... and they just straight up released it on a Drift off-week. Do you think they're still working on, like, "5 Points"... or is it more likely they're not as into as some fans were? I mean I'm mystified as well - if they were done with it, it would've been a nice single or at least bonus track on the Beaucoup Fish reissue.

But anyways I meant "clearing the decks" more as in whatever they had made lately as sort of ideas for a next album, that turned into this project instead.

do they still sound like ex-libertines fan discovers dance music, nme-approved trance then? because I can strangle myself in contentment that nothing has changed.

not sure they've put much out since last time you said you didn't like them

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sic wtf are you doing to this thread

xxxxp I still want "Bamboo"!!

in case anybody is actually getting their covid news from this thread I want to keep it accurate!

do they still sound like ex-libertines fan discovers dance music, nme-approved trance then? because I can strangle myself in contentment that nothing has changed.

― RobbiePires, Sunday, 24 October 2021 11:37 (two days ago) link

This could almost be a thread of its own: whether there is any contemporary dance music that is not apt to be described as insufferably middle class and conservative at this point.

Of course any such discussion would be more interesting if everyone agreed not to conduct it on the basis of not having had an original thought in over twenty years.

good to see you, Tim!

Drift 2 Dark Train now on Spotify as a single with the original plus Most 'Ospitable

it's available for order on vinyl with those tracks now too. Not too attractive

this remix of dark train is dope

degree to which it is dope because it is almost indistinguishable from the regular dark train: unknown

yeah, that is true

we spend a little longer on this train, even though it moves a little bit faster. Doesn't seem like it has any newly recorded elements though

The blurb on it suggests that it’s strictly Rick playing the song live-in-studio exactly as he would at a current-era greatest hits festival show, but with Karl’s vocals as one extra track.

I quite like Underworld, but as I've noted before, I just want the fucker to STOP. SINGING.

If we lived in less perilous times I’d FP you have that

xp - do you mean you'd like his voice to appear less, table? Or that you don't want him to be "singing" as distinct from saying things?

I've got a lot of time for Karl Hyde releases - which tend towards "singing songs" - but his voice/lyrics seem even more essential in Underworld tracks, which seem different than that.

hereby challenge table to not enjoy "Edgeland"

I do wonder how much I'd really like his voice if they hadn't been a monumentally important band for me since I was a teenager

I personally love his voice though I guess he does try to do more than he probably should sometimes

made a playlist for tonight and the two UW tracks on it are "JAL to Tokyo" and "Faxed Invitation" and I am immensely enjoying them both

I quite like Underworld, but as I've noted before, I just want the fucker to STOP. SINGING.

― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, October 29, 2021 4:15 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

What a ridiculous post lmao

Here comes Christ on crutches...

This could almost be a thread of its own: whether there is any contemporary dance music that is not apt to be described as insufferably middle class and conservative at this point.
Of course any such discussion would be more interesting if everyone agreed not to conduct it on the basis of not having had an original thought in over twenty years.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 26 October 2021

well, they are now, but they certainly didn't start out that way, more so idprole - which the British music media loved compared to the lumpen hooliganism of the nuum, and in some senses I can sympathise. It's just that underworlds form of vaguely class conscious dance music was always too 80s. Just perpetually stuck in that technopop average mean, never venturing into proper hard techno, gabba, psychodelic acidic mayhem, industrial freakbeats, dub abstraction, etc. But then despite liking pop in hip hop, rnb, new wave, 80s synth music, after the post-acid recalibration of the musical timeline I've never found dance pop all that appealing - even in the glory years of 91-92 'ardcore, to me, (in a reversal of reynolds judgment) it was the folding of pop into rave, not rave into pop.

not sure they've put much out since last time you said you didn't like them
― ufo, Sunday, 24 October 2021

Listen to Pearsall's rampage Turbo mixes, happy hardcore kids discover trance. You get extreme sickly sweet corney euphoria at breakneck 170+ tempos, what's not to like? best of both worlds. Underworld could only dream of. https://soundcloud.com/sonicrampage/sets/rampage-turbo

never venturing into proper hard techno, gabba, psychodelic acidic mayhem, industrial freakbeats, dub abstraction, etc

thank god

thank god
― scanner darkly, Friday, 5 November 2021

Reverse snob, I see.

everyone stop bickering and put on the Pizza for Eggs EP the first 8 minutes with "Food a Ready" and "Back in the Fears" is some of the coolest music on the planet

i like uncool music though. cool music is overrated. that's precisely underworlds problem.

Ok put on Ring Road then

"underworld are too cool" is not really a complaint i ever expected to hear

which of the songs on Drift are the coolest, Robbie?

& also particularly at odds with robbie's previous complaint, "ex-libertines fan discovers dance music, nme-approved trance" makes them sound pretty uncool!

mega mega cool

& also particularly at odds with robbie's previous complaint, "ex-libertines fan discovers dance music, nme-approved trance" makes them sound pretty uncool!
― ufo, Friday, 5 November 2021

You must not be aware of trance being the cool thing in the dance music press now. Lorenzo Senni, Evian Christ etc. We're even, shock horror, having a full on sasha and sewer-digging--crapshoot revival with the likes of Adam Pits, Lisene, and the australian lot, Guy something.

which of the songs on Drift are the coolest, Robbie?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 5 November 2021

All of them, where's the schranz? That's what would really make it great and uncool for me.

Hundred Weight Hammer is pretty rad

Ok put on Ring Road then
― frogbs, Friday, 5 November 2021

how about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JuLV93OQOs

dance music ilx really doesn't need a toxic psycho "gifted child" asshole right now imo, so i'm fp-ing and not engaging and i would encourage others to do the same.

i mean Underworld mk1 aka the uncool years... cmon?