yes, they’ve been going for over thirty years as the same trio The Necks: (Tony Buck, Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton). This transcendental improv combo will play basic tracks to my guitar part on 2 songs, and the songs will be further orchestrated and sung to thereafter. Tony will also play various instruments on other songs.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 29 March 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
Thx, interesting.
― StanM, Friday, 29 March 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
2001 ILM thread: the necks - nummy num krautjazz goodness, or frothy australian piffle?
2003 thread: New Necks
2004 thread: The Necks - Drive By; Classic or Dud?
2005 thread: the necks - mosquito/see through - c/d?
22 of their albums polled: the necks - mosquito/see through - c/d?
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 29 March 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
always a pleasure to be reminded about "nummy num krautjazz goodness or frothy australian piffle"
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 29 March 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
sorry for mispaste
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 29 March 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
"dune" is sublime
― ufo, Saturday, 30 March 2019 01:50 (four years ago) link
this one is even sublimer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtU2Yi2xgGE
seriously flashing back to hearing "8 Ball" for the first time
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
you said the magic words ("8 ball")
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 April 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
wow yeah holy shit
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 April 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
Super-pretty. The piano is gorgeous.
― DJI, Thursday, 4 April 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
is the "cowgirl" riff in there? kinda feel like i'm hearing the ghost of it throughout this track
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 April 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
I was gonna say there's a bit of "Rez" in there but that's just their style. I hear it in "Faxed Invitation" too.
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 April 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
i was actually thinking of "rez"! i make this mistake all of the time bc of the everything, everything version
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 April 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzxbQKCZArE
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
this kicks so much ass
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
this would be a nice one to stretch out to 12+ minutes
― frogbs, Monday, 15 April 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
Is there a longer version of Appleshine? It's getting real nice at the end there.
― lukas, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
"Appleshine Continuum" is sort of a 47 minute version?
― maffew12, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:20 (four years ago) link
Oh and... whatever version you have in mind (Youtube weekly release or final "episode" audio release), check the other. Not sure what the difference is with Appleshine specifically, but the video is 7 seconds longer. Custard Speedtalk's video is around 40 seconds longer... someone at borndirty.org was talking about the differences. I dunno. But they're clearly futzing around with a lot of iterations of these tracks
― maffew12, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
"Molehill" is around 90 seconds longer on the release with a nice coda... i like it much better than i did at first.
oh these guys
― maffew12, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
this week's is 12:15, and tagged as bigroombangersandstadiumtechnoman plus RIYL "Downpipe, Spoonman, Moaner, Threat of Rain, Kittens, Dogman Go Woof" by the band or their people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc-xJjBr7qQ
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Thursday, 18 April 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
sounds like something you'd hear on Disc 4 or 5 of that super-deluxe dubnobass set. which is (obviously) a good thing
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 April 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
oh damn crank it up this piece is killer
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 April 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Finally catching up to the first two of these "EPs" (the second one is 85 minutes long). The first one's pretty great; I'm not a huge Necks fan but they prove to be excellent collaborators.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 18 April 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
Second one is where it's really at though. It's like the Pearl's Girl EP, but with a monster jam at the end of it
― frogbs, Friday, 26 April 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
Classic
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 26 April 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
Where and how can I listen to these Necks collaborations?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 26 April 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIDas-lWuhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhcgUodizro
these are the two Necks collaborations, taken from their recent EPs which are available to stream etc.
― ufo, Friday, 26 April 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
So are all the constituent parts of Drift a collaboration with The Necks? Two episodes each with multiple parts? You can't buy a physical copy anywhere (I know I'm old fashioned)?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 26 April 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
no, just those two tracks are collaborative so far. the EPs are only available on streaming and for digital purchase at the moment.
― ufo, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
You can check them all out here:
https://underworldlive.com/drift/
― groovypanda, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
the extensive sleevenotes to Vol. 2 imply there are more collabs coming
― frogbs, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJmjNTM5Ba8
buzz on the fan forum is that this is it for episode 3. No Necks to end this one. "Featuring the violin and saxophone of Georgia Ellery and Lewis Evans of Jockstrap and Black Country, New Road"
The posting for "A Very Silent Way" mentioned that they were only in studio with the Necks for a couple of days. "Karl and I spent two glorious days with The Necks at AIR studios in London exploring long improvisations based on our music for Drift and I had the time of my life with these incredibly talented, beautiful people. This initial release represents just a small part of that body of work." Sounds productive.
Loved ep 3
― maffew12, Friday, 26 April 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Drift 3 out now on iTunes and the like. No word on when/if the series will continue, though I imagine it will shortly...they're on a roll
As much as I've enjoyed the vintage techno/banger side of this on stuff like "Threat of Rain" or "Another Silent Way" I've really been digging the tunes where they just go completely outside of Underworld..."Appleshine Continuum" and "Molehill" especially. hoping to hear more stuff like that.
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
interesting tidbit herehttps://sonar.es/en/2019/artists/underworld Their latest project, Drift, is a self defined “journey without a fixed destination” consisting of 5 EP’s (and possibly an album) so that's about 2 1/2 hours of material? very nice.― frogbs, Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:45 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://sonar.es/en/2019/artists/underworld
Their latest project, Drift, is a self defined “journey without a fixed destination” consisting of 5 EP’s (and possibly an album)
so that's about 2 1/2 hours of material? very nice.
― frogbs, Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:45 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
2 more? This is the only place I've heard anything about this.
― maffew12, Thursday, 2 May 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
You should follow UW on Instagram at least. Good diary/photography stuff from Karl and you keep up with new music and tour dates.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 2 May 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link
xp...yeah I wondered about that too. I'm guessing it was just an off-hand remark and not an actual plan...the whole point of "Drift" is that it's not planned out in advance, right? in this case I noticed that the email announcing the release didn't say "Drift continues xx/xx" like the other two
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 May 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
I thought they said at the start this was going to go on for a year, but maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Thursday, 2 May 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
It's not:
DRIFT is an ongoing experiment that will regularly publish new Underworld material – music, film, stories, etc – right here on underworldlive.com. The DRIFT series is an epic year-long road trip by the band in collaboration with Tomato and friends old and new from playwrights to DJs in jazz and techno to painters and poets.
― groovypanda, Friday, 3 May 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
going to add the Episode 3 tracks to my ipod now that they're all out and two of them are longer than the EP versions, and noticed that Pinetum and Poet Cat are only 160kbps
but I can't be bothered to replace with "full"-strength versions and then copy the single artwork over to the 320s
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Sunday, 5 May 2019 04:35 (four years ago) link
I found ep. 1 to be a tad underwhelming but ep. 2 is incredible, one of the best things they've released in years imho. I look forward to hearing ep. 3.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:05 (four years ago) link
kinda the same way I felt about the Riverruns - the first one was "okay" (with one really great track, at least), but the second one really drove the whole idea home. Same thing happening here. Vol. 3 is very nice...that "do you wanna buy my car?" refrain has been in my head all week
apparently they're gonna clear out more stuff from the vaults in the next few weeks, can't wait
― frogbs, Thursday, 9 May 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vewj8NR08nE
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 May 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
Had never realised what an airtowel was until this second
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Friday, 10 May 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
I didn’t until you pointed out that was what the image was supposed to depictI’m satisfied to have that mystery cleared up but I will kind of miss its former status in my life as a nonsense phrase
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Friday, 10 May 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
Maybe also worth noting that this is a “Born Slippy” (the original) jam as much as it is “Air Towel”, I heard this recording in bootleg form years ago and came to the same realization then
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Friday, 10 May 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link
never thought of the "Airtowel" -> "Born Slippy" thing before. I hear it now. though to me the "definitive" original Born Slippy is the one on Bootleg Babies...what a corker
anyway, here's 26 minutes of "Pearl's Girl"
https://soundcloud.com/underworld/pearls-girl-jam-080624
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 May 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
fuck
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 May 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
Also these two tidbits of news:
Underworld 2019 News Coming SoonWe have some exciting news coming on the 21 May, including some new live shows. As a subscriber you will have access the exclusive ticket pre-sale. Watch out on Tuesday 👀#DRIFT Episode 4 Starts next week
We have some exciting news coming on the 21 May, including some new live shows. As a subscriber you will have access the exclusive ticket pre-sale. Watch out on Tuesday 👀
#DRIFT Episode 4 Starts next week
― groovypanda, Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
hope this never stops tbh
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 May 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link